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Aug 22, 2016 · After six decades, the town of Tisdale, Saskatchewan is no longer officially known as the “Land of Rape and Honey.”. Instead, the north-central community is declaring that “Opportunity...
Aug 23, 2016 · The town of Tisdale in northern Saskatchewan has changed its motto to “Opportunity grows here” after the town council voted through a rebrand for the town at the end of last year. The 60-year-old...
Aug 22, 2016 · It looks like the residents of the Canadian town of Tisdale will not have to give any more awkward explanations for their town’s slogan. Up until Monday, the town of 3,500 had the eyebrow-raising slogan of — get this — “The land of rape and honey.”
Sep 22, 2021 · In September 1920, the largest gun fight in the history of Western Canada would occur near Tisdale. It all started on Sept. 17, when four men held up a poker game at Red Deer Lumber Mills, which resulted in the police being called. This was followed by a short gun fight.
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Feb 19, 2013 · The Town of Tisdale is located at a railway junction, 135 km southeast of Prince Albert. Originally called Doghide after nearby Doghide Creek (1902), it was renamed to honour Frederick W. Tisdale, a railway civil engineer, when the CANADIAN NORTHERN RY reached the community (1904).
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The community was originally known as Doghide after the Doghide River that flows nearby, but with the arrival of the railway it was renamed Tisdale in honour of F.W. Tisdale, an employee of the CN Railway. Read about the history of the Town of Tisdale.
