By Bresaylor Heritage Committee

Bresaylor Heritage Committee Historic Walk

Jul 25, 2023 | 11:07 AM

From Battleford to Fort Pitt, the Saskatchewan History and Folklore Association will walk and stop and explore history all along the way from August 9 to 18!

On Friday August 11 Bresaylor Heritage Committee will host a traditional Metis meal of stew and bannock sponsored by FCC.

At the end of the days walk, the group will gather at the Bresaylor Museum site to reminisce, and story tell. The meal sponsored by FCC is open, but registration is required so the committee can prepare the proper amount of food. Please register on Facebook on the Bresaylor heritage Museum site! Do bring a chair!

The amazing historic tour will begin with a self-guided tour of Fort Battleford, on August 8. In the evening Historic Battleford townsite will be walked and location Indian Residential School, and cemetary.

Tours of the Fred Light Museum, and the Baseball Hall of Fame. While in the Battlefords the Battleford Historic Committee will host them.

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The group will make their way to the next overnight stop at Delmas stopped at the Hall on the site of the Thunderchild / St Henri Residential school and the iconic St. Jean Baptiste Catholic Church.

As they make their way west, they will stop at Bresaylor a community formed in 1882 and tour the museum.

Along the way they will experience the actual Fort Pitt trail where Red River carts rutted the prairie still preserved in Charlie Sayers pasture, traveling on to the site of Fathers Cochins Mission where Harris Sayers erected a Buffalo Shaped field stone and put a plaque to commemorate.

Local guide and historian, Bob Peterson, will guide them past many sites: where the telegraph office was set up, markers of original school & past some the oldest farm sites in the area: Bremner, Sayers, and Taylor.

Poundmaker Reservations renowned author, historian and storyteller who is deeply involved in preserving the culture of the indigenous, Floyd Favel, will host the group at Poundmaker. They will see the museum and art gallery, the Cut knife Hill battle sites and where the Bresaylor people encamped under the protection of Chief Poundmaker. Here is the final resting place of Poundmaker. The interpretive Center as well.

Moving west, and North to Silver Lake, the stories and beauty of Pine Island will be shared, and African Canadian history at Shiloh Baptist Church.

The Kenderdine homestead, Imhoff church Paintings at Paradise Hill.

At Frenchman Butte the museum, and the National Historic Site of the 1885 battle.

Winding up August 18, the Fort Pitt National Historic Site.

Hugh Henry organizer of the tour and many historic walks across Saskatchewan welcomes walkers, story tellers and history buffs along the way to join or stop and visit along the way. Further information can be obtained by emailing: h.henry@sasktel.net

Bresaylor Heritage Museum welcomes you register for their gathering August 11. Registration required for the evening meal sponsored by FCC. Do bring a chair!

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