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Points of Interest, Saskatchewan
1999: Trails
used by the North West Mounted Police, Indians, outlaws, hunters,
settlers, travellers, traders, Sitting Bull and his followers;
Métis cabins and fur-trading posts; clashes between Cree,
Assiniboine, Sioux, and Blackfoot; a World War II bombing and gunnery
school; an abandoned townsite where rail lines from the east and west
met; the boyhood home of a governor of the Bank of Canada; a park in
recognition of two people who served their town for fifty-five years; a
cart track used by the Hudson's Bay Company, the Dominion telegraph,
and Her Majesty's mail; the first stage robbery in the Canadian West;
and an old ford on the river where nine important trails converged
medium: 12 colour Endurochrome photographic prints,
each 24 x 36 inches (61 x 91 cm).
installed dimensions: 8 feet high (from floor to top of frames) x
12 feet 8 inches wide (244 cm high x 386 cm wide).
collection: Remai Modern,
Saskatoon.
A publication that includes this work is
available:
Marlene Creates: Signs of Our Time
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