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The Town of Wilkie
Today, Wilkie boasts fully serviced campgrounds at the Regional Park, an outdoor swimming pool, a complex containing a hockey arena, curling arena and a dance hall, a nine hole golf course, motel and hotel accommodations and the largest grasshopper in the world. Of special interest is the Wilkie museum, a complex of buildings commemorating the community's heritage. Tours start at the 1909 fire hall and continue to buildings that house an impressive collection of newspaper and magazines spanning over nine decades, railroad equipment, a school house, a blacksmith shop, a caboose, a general store, a prairie home and the Wilkie Press Building which contains old presses and typesetters. Our friendly and progressive community offers visitors a variety of opportunities. We invite ... | The Battlefords
Recorded history reveals that the first fur trading post was established here in 1785, a telegraph line in 1874, a North West Mounted Police headquarter in 1876, the Capital of the North West Territories in 1877, and the first newspaper west of Winnipeg in 1878. In 1905, North Battleford came into being when the CNR built a railroad on the north side of the North Saskatchewan River. It was the fastest growing centre in the West, was incorporated as a village in 1906, became a town in 1907, and a city in 1913. The Battlefords are the crossroads for the Yellowhead Highway Route with four other highways, No. 4, 26, 29 and 40. The Battlefords are diverse communities ranging from professional services to wholesale distribution, manufacturing industries to local businesses. This area extends into the far northwestern part of ... |
Bright clear sky over a prairie so wide, the heavens could frame it. A sky alive each morning with the fire of the rising sun; a sky ending each day with the promise of a better tomorrow. Such was the summer that greeted those first daring souls who arrived in Wilkie in the fall of 1905. Wilkie became incorporated as a Town in 1911 and was named after Daniel Robert Wilkie. With the needs of the homesteaders to be met and the distant rumbling of the approaching railroad, the village that would be nicknamed 'THE TOWN THAT WOULDN'T WAIT' jumped to life. 
The Battlefords are the gateway to Northwest Saskatchewan's land of outdoor adventure. When you look at a map, you will see that in The Battlefords two rivers converge - the Battle River which flows from the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta and the mighty North Saskatchewan River which rises in the midst of the Rockies near Jasper, Alberta. Before the advent of white man, the Battle River was known as the 'Fighting River' which marked the boundary between Blackfoot and Cree Territory.
