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Highway 13 in Saskatchewan.

2009.11.29
SMALL-TOWN SASKATCHEWAN.....

RURAL SASKATCHEAN......

WIDE STREETS IN THESE LITTLE TOWNS...

ARCOLA, SK.....MY WIFE WAS BORN HERE IN 1944....

NOT MUCH LEFT...

THE CHURCH AT OGEMA, SK....

WELCOME HOME..........

THE LOCAL DEPARTMENT STORE..

THE BEST OF OGEMA, SK...

ANOTHER BUSY PLACE..

A TREE-LINED AVENUE...

PONTIEX, SK....THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL.

MOST TOWNS STILL HAVE A HOTEL AND BAR....SOMETIMES THATS ALL THERE IS LEFT....

THE "FIREBELL"........

A SCHOOL ????

NOW THIS IS A CHURCH.....

A HARDWARE STORE...

THE PLAYGROUND.............

THE SCHOOL.

A GRAIN ELEVATOR..

THE PONTEIX CATHOLIC CHURCH.....EVERYONE SPOKE FRENCH HERE...WHEN WE WENT TO THE LOCAL COFFEE SHOP THERE VWAS NO ENGLISH SPOKEN WHILE WE WERE IN THERE!!!

A CONVENT BESIDE THE SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL....ALL WERE OPERATED BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH....

A BEAUTIFUL BUILDING....

A LOCAL FARM....

IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A BANK AT ONE TIME...

THE CENOTAPH...

MAIN STREET...SOMEWHERE.....a viewer has told me that this street scene is in Ponteix, SK.....when we were driving down this street we were looking for the local "cafe'"....for breakfast...we asked a couple of farmer type guys and that's when we discovered this is a french-speaking community....most people here are "bi-lingual".....

I THINK MAYBE CARLYLE ?????

CARLYLE, SK.......

ARCOLA, SK.........

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