Saskatchewan

American  

[sa-skach-uh-won, -wuhn] / sæˈskætʃ əˌwɒn, -wən /

noun

1. a province in W Canada. 251,700 sq. mi. (651,900 sq. km). Regina.

2. a river in SW Canada, flowing E to Lake Winnipeg: formed by the junction of the North Saskatchewan and South Saskatchewan rivers. 1,205 miles (1,940 km) long.

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Saskatchewan British  

/ sæsˈkætʃɪwən /

noun

1. Abbreviation: Sask, SK. a province of W Canada: consists of part of the Canadian Shield in the north and open prairie in the south; economy based chiefly on agriculture and mineral resources. Capital: Regina. Pop: 995 391 (2004 est). Area: 651 900 sq km (251 700 sq miles)

2. a river in W Canada, formed by the confluence of the North and South Saskatchewan Rivers: flows east to Lake Winnipeg. Length: 596 km (370 miles)

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Saskatchewan Cultural  

1. Province in west-central Canada, bordered to the north by the Northwest Territories, to the east by Manitoba, to the south by North Dakota and Montana, and to the west by Alberta. Its capital and largest city is Regina.

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Some of the world's largest wheat fields grow on Saskatchewan's vast unbroken prairie.

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Scotty's remains were discovered by teams from the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Saskatchewan's Frenchman River Valley, one of North America's richest sites for dinosaur fossils.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Aware House Books, a New Age-oriented bookstore in Regina, Saskatchewan, posted a video of an employee ripping up Chopra’s books, and announced it would no longer order or carry them.

From Salon ● May 19, 2026

The Competition Bureau said the planned $3.7 billion transaction would reduce competition at a crucial natural-gas liquids-processing hub in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

Rosenblatt Securities analyst John McPeake noted last week that Rigetti had shipped a 9-qubit Novera quantum processor to the University of Saskatchewan in March.

From Barron's ● Apr. 8, 2026

The Blackfoot were a tightly organized confederation of groups that inhabited the plains between the Missouri and Saskatchewan Rivers.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann