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Popular Off the Beaten Path | Other Off the Beaten Path Tips | All Tips (16) The Motherwell Homestead is situated approximately 1 hour Northeast of Regina Follow ‘Highway 10’ till the turnoff for Abernethy. You will step back in time in this prairie homestead of western Canada’s settlement period.
On the site you will find the old Italian-style house from stones, as well as a huge barn and some old farm machinery.
Gift shop and restaurant.
On your way back you may stop in Fort Qu’Appelle and take a visit to the fish hatchery on the south bank of Echo Lake. Leave a Comment
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This little wooden church is situated in the Qu'Apelle Valley, east of Craven nearby Lumsden. Take road '99' from Craven and you can not miss this lovely church.
Stroll around and look at the old tombstones and off course take a look inside this simple wooden church. This is the oldest remaining church of Saskatchewan.
But most of all: enjoy the quietness of this spot.
Directions
From Regina tahe Highway 11 to Lumsden, turn off and take highway 20 to the north, in Craven highway 99 to the east and after a couple of km's you will see the church on your right hand side on the other side of the valley. Leave a Comment
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Leave Regina over ‘Highway 11’ and after 30 km’s you will find the ‘Lumsden exit’. Even better you take halfway the exit (left) for Deer Valley. Take a look at Condie Nature Refuge and Deer Valley Resort and drive through the amazing plains to Lumsden.
Suddenly you descend into a lovely valley and ‘step into the country pace’ of Lumsden.
On the main street you will find some beautiful houses, shops, a good art gallery (old post office) and a café/restaurant in the old station. Lumsden has lots of craftspeople.
Some km’s to the North on ‘Highway 11’ is another exit to Regina Beach.
Lovely beach and the best ‘fish and chips’ shop of SK. Leave a Comment
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Next to the Ipsco plant you find some grazing buffalo’s and deer in their paddocks.
On the same grounds is also a heated swimming pool (for the kids).
Ideal if you are travelling with children, but also a nice stop on your way North or Northwest
Situated: along ‘Highway 11’ to Saskatoon just outside Regina. Leave a Comment
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Regina is kind of "off-the-beaten-track" itself, but alright...
Echo Valley lies about 50 km north-east of Regina, just west of Fort Qu' Appelle. It consists of a huge lake (where the people dig a hole in the 1 meter-thick ice to fish) and some trails around it. Leave a Comment Phone: 306-332-3215Other Contact: Route 220
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The electrical contracting and consulting company that I'm now working for in Regina does a great deal of business with various heavy industries in western Canada. We provide technicians and electricians to help out with the hands-on work during planned shutdowns or emergency breakdowns as well as engineering services dealing with protective relaying and also studies to protect the workers from the life-threatening effects of electrical arc flashes.
Once I began to visit some of our customers, I realized just how heavily industrialized Regina and all of Saskatchewan really is. The IPSCO Steel Mill on the edge of Regina is the largest in western Canada, using two electric arc furnaces to melt huge bits of scrap metal and then pouring it out of giant ladles, like the one shown here, to forge the steel into wire, pipes and giant slabs (such as in the 2nd photo). The 3rd photo gives an overall view of the mill, with the -20 C winter weather making the steam and smoke seem more dramatic than usual!
Within eyesight of IPSCO is another of Regina's industrial sites - the Consumers Cooperative Refinery (4th photo) which started operations in 1935 and has expanded over the years to its present capacity of 100,000 barrels of oil per day. We are currently working with them on plans for a larger emergency diesel generator to supply essential services in the event of a power outage.
Since Canada is the largest producer of potash (used for fertilizer) in the world, the 5th photo showing the Belle Plaine mine west of Regina should come as no surprise. It is unusual in that it mines by drilling and then injecting water up to about 5000-ft deep into the salt deposits, causing the salt to dissolve and form a huge underground cavern. The briney mixture is then pumped to the surface where it is evaporated into solid potash. We are investigating another job there to upgrade their huge electrically operated drills and pumps. Leave a Comment
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As part of the RCMP graduation festivities, we were taken for a high speed ride around their driver training course, complete with screeching tires through hairpin turns! This is done in a typical 'souped-up' cruiser used for highway patrol duties, like this one, equipped with a high performance engine, special suspension and heavy duty brakes. It is quite a thrill accelerating down the straightaways and braking at the last moment to negotiate the various obstacles between you and the next straightaway. Leave a Comment
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Not in Regina and therefore included as 'Off the Beaten Path,' John's Country Cafe offers specialty coffees and a wide assortment of soups, sandwiches and desserts in Swift Current. Leave a Comment
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Moose Jaw is a nice destination for day trip from Regina, about 75 km’s away. The first thing to enjoy is the drive over Highway 1. For me as a Dutchman it is incredible to drive such a straight road; it is just like a ruler through the plains of Saskatchewan. Driving these road you do understand while all cars in Canada do have cruise control; it is so empty and you don't see hardly cars.
Moose Jaw has a couple of interesting sites for tourists. There are the “Temple Gardens Mineral Spa” with water up to 40º C. Nearby is a casino. On the main street you will find the famous “tunnels”. During a guided tour you get a good impression of the way Chinese ‘slaves’ did work and live under the ground in very bad circumstances. Other tunnels were used by gangsters for smuggling alcohol into the States.
But Moose Jaw is perhaps most famous for its murals. About 40 buildings are decorated with (mostly) historical pictures about Moose Jaw and Regina. They can be found on buildings in town. Get a map with this murals at Tourism Moose Jaw, 50 Diefenbaker Drive.
Oh, there is a lovely tearoom/giftshop called Cranberry Rose, 436 Langdon Crescent !!! Leave a Comment
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The Mountie Museum... if you're already in Regina, you might as well go. What else are you going to do? Leave a Comment
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