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n. 1 (context Canadian Prairies English) A shrub inhabiting western North America, (taxlink Amelanchier alnifolia species noshow=1). 2 (context Canadian Prairies English) The edible berry of this shrub.
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Saskatoon is the largest city in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Straddling a bend in the South Saskatchewan River and located along the Trans-Canada Yellowhead Highway, it is centrally located in the province and has served as the cultural and economic hub of the region since its establishment in 1882 as a Temperance colony. It is the largest city in the province, the 17th largest CMA in Canada, and one of the fastest-growing population centres in the country, with a civic population of 260,900 and an estimated metropolitan population of 305,000 as of 2015.
Saskatoon is home to the University of Saskatchewan, the Meewasin Valley Authority which protects the South Saskatchewan River and provides for the city's popular riverbank park spaces, and Wanuskewin Heritage Park, a National Historic Site of Canada representing nearly 6,000 years of First Nations history. The Rural Municipality of Corman Park No. 344, the most populous rural municipality in Saskatchewan, surrounds the city and contains many of the developments associated with it, including Wanuskewin.
Saskatoon is named after the berry of the same name, which is native to the region, and is itself derived from the Cree "misâskwatômina". There is a significant Indigenous population in the city, and several urban Reserves within its boundaries. It is known for its relatively diverse and vibrant culture, as well as its eight (plus two planned) river crossings, earning it the nicknames "Paris of the Prairies" and "Bridge City."
Historic neighbourhoods of Saskatoon include Nutana and Riversdale, which were both separate towns before amalgamating with the town of Saskatoon and incorporating as a city in 1906. Nutana, Riversdale, their historic main streets of Broadway Avenue and 20th Street respectively, as well as the downtown core and other central neighbourhoods, are seeing significant reinvestment and redevelopment today. Similarly, the old rail town of Sutherland was annexed by the city in 1956 and is now another historic neighbourhood of Saskatoon, just beyond the University lands.
Saskatoon can refer to:
Saskatoon was a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1908 to 1935 and from 1949 to 1968.
This riding was created in 1907 from parts of Assiniboia West, Humboldt and Saskatchewan ridings.
It was abolished in 1933 when it was redistributed into Rosthern and Saskatoon City ridings.
It was recreated in 1947 from parts of Rosthern and Saskatoon City ridings, and abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed into Moose Jaw, Saskatoon—Biggar and Saskatoon—Humboldt ridings.
Usage examples of "saskatoon".
Bay Company built or purchased its fleet of flagship downtown department stores in Victoria, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon and Winnipeg, opening smaller versions in Kamloops, Vernon, Nelson, Macleod, Lethbridge, Yorkton and Kenora, all of them initlallv successful as the transcontinental railA ays deposited tens of thousands of new customers on their doorsteps.
But under its first editor, a Chicago advertising man named Clifton Moore Thomas, The Beaver limited itself mainly to a hodgepodge of curling scores from the Saskatoon store, news of an engagement in Kamloops, photos of an office picnic in Victoria, the results of a pie-eating competition at Fort ii la Corne, word of new tennis and quoits courts for the Winnipeg staff-all interwoven with hair-raising fur-trade accounts and glued together with bad Irish jokes and harmless homilies on how to increase sales.