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Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine - St. Laurent de Grandin
Our Story:
"A people without a history are like the wind blowing in the buffalo grass."
A Native Adage.
Long before the advent of the European, the site of St. Laurent was popular as a camping ground both because of its spring and its ravine, ideal as a buffalo pit. When the traders set up their "store-forts" on the South Saskatchewan, the Atsena or the Gros-Ventres were in possession of the narrow strip of land between the two rivers, from the elbow of the North Saskatchewan to the fork.
On December 5, 1821, the Hudson's Bay was conceded the monopoly of the fur trade at ...more Story
Related Links:
Our Lady of the Prairies Foundation
Western Development Museum
Contact:
O.J. Ranger
Box 35
Duck Lake SK S0K 1J0
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