North Saskatchewan River

uh question number two um you live in edmonton or an area um what is your and you kind of already answered this but we're going to ask anyways what is your favorite local fishery besides baptiste which you just noted uh

i enjoy going down to the river once in a while and fishing the north saskatchewan river um you never know what you're going to catch down there um so you could pull out a an eight pound walleye you could pull out a sturgeon you could pull out a gold eye a moon eye you never know what you're going to catch down there

You're good at this.

Bradley, question number three.

The Ginge.

You can fill a jug of mighty North Saskatchewan water, and then bless it, and now it's holy water.

Yes.

You might have to exercise it first.

So the Wingard Ferry was definitely like a celebration because I was excited to get there.

And then we were kind of on the south side of the North Saskatchewan River.

And then that part was really neat because we were kind of just all on gravel roads and you just kind of crisscross as close to the river as we could.

Like obviously you weren't on the riverbank at all, but you could always kind of see the river in the distance.

pay your toll and we crossed them like i was right well like yeah it's kind of just a unique part of yeah a unique part of our landscape and um when i was planning the route i was really excited to like incorporate them like obviously you could have done the whole way without taking the ferries but i was like pretty pumped that we were able to cross both rivers

Yeah, that's awesome.

So you're kind of making your way south from Shellbrook, going along the North Saskatchewan River.

And then what was, where did you kind of head to after that?

I don't know anything about his company.

I'm pretty sure he gets all of his money from gold panning on the North Saskatchewan River.

What is going

on

They want to hide where the gold is.

Sure.

This AI is saying that people still find small amounts of flower gold in the North Saskatchewan River with commercial aggregate and gravel pits near Edmonton, such as Villeneuve, known as an area for a lot of it.

Continuously recovered gold is a secondary byproduct throughout the days.

We're talking about the community of Rocky Mountain House.

It's at the confluence of the Clearwater River and the North Saskatchewan River.

It's not too far from the mountains.

Yeah, you can see the mountains from Rocky Mountain House, which is pretty awesome and kind of sets it apart.

When we talked on the phone earlier in the week, we talked about how cool the mountains are.

But the mountains aren't the only natural beauty in the area.

The other thing that really puts Rocky on the map is the North Saskatchewan River, which runs right along our western boundary.

We are right at the confluence of the Clearwater River and the North Saskatchewan River, and just a few kilometres upstream is the Rocky Mountain House National Historic Site.

Yeah.

In like the North Saskatchewan River.

Yeah.

And he's like, "It's completely legal to do so."

What we see, I think, with this separation movement is a desire to ignore sovereignty, of a desire to ignore that people have been living well in this river valley for thousands of years

Duane Donald, a Cree professor at the University of Alberta, standing on the shores of the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton.

It's an area his ancestors, the Papaschase First Nation, once called home

My ancestors and the suffering that they had, and that they were chased away from this area

The Ginge.

You can fill a jug of mighty North Saskatchewan water, and then bless it, and now it's holy water.

Yes.

You might have to exorcize it first.

The grave was found empty, the rocks moved, and no one who sought answers returned.

This is the tale of the Blackjack Mine near the North Saskatchewan River in the spring of 1870.

The mine was never recovered, its location unconfirmed, and those closest to it are all dead.

In spring 1870, Lafayette French hired about 12 men to search for gold in Western Canada, including Frank Lemon and a man known only as Black Jack.

Blackjack had a different moral line.

These traits matter in what follows.

The forest near the North Saskatchewan River is dense, muffling sounds.

When Frank noticed a trail off the main path, he pointed it out to Blackjack.