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Honour Frederick W. Tisdale
- 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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Sep 22, 2021 · Today, Tisdale sits on Treaty 4 land. The first European to arrive in the area was explorer Henry Kelsey, who came through during his exploration of the Carrot River in 1690. While Kelsey was the first European, it would be another two centuries before there was any settlement of note in the area that would become Tisdale.
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.
Tisdale’s drawing, headlined “The Gerry-mander,” appeared in the Boston Gazette of March 26, 1812. Below it, a fanciful satire joked that the beast had been born in the extreme heat of ...
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...
The church services mentioned above would have been in homes, as the Tisdale Anglican Church was built in 1903. The “village” was long gone but the community remained. A cairn, situated on the intersection of Road 19N 92 W, a few kilometres west of the former village, reads. “In memory of the pioneers of Tisdale.
With the construction of the Canadian Northern Railway from Hudson Bay to Melfort in 1904 the townsite was named Tisdale in honour of Frederick W. Tisdale, a civil engineer with the railroad. The first wave of settlers largely came from eastern Canada, Great Britain, and the United States.
