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| Southern Saskatchewan, near Weyburn |
We stopped in Weyburn, interested in seeing the new statue of Tommy Douglas. We asked at the CAA travel centre there and neither lady was sure where it was. They gave us some directions which proved to be incorrect. We gathered that despite the national coverage of the unveiling, it didn't shake up Weyburn.
I had a brief conversation once with Tommy Douglas. He attended a workshop where I made a small presentation. He complimented me on it, which made an impression as he was one of Canada's great orators, whatever one might have thought of his political views.
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| Coal used to be big around Estevan, now it's oil in the same spot. |
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| Open pit coal mining produced a lot of environmental damage. |
We crossed into the United States about 1:00 pm at North Portal, into North Dakota.
We noticed a tremendous difference in the scenery, compared to southern Saskatchewan.
See below, a scene in North Dakota.
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| Dorothy was driving when the odometer of our van turned to 100,000 km |
Regina, my starting gate...Weyburn, visited often as relatives lived there, and Estevan, where I spent many summers with the grandparents...many years since I traveled that same road you were on, and then on into Minot, where we would shop, shop, shop, back in the 60's and early 70's when our dollar was .10 higher than the US, how we enjoyed those shopping trips!
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