Saskatchewan Highway 1

. Pioneer homesteaders in the early 1900s farmed quarter section homesteads which were ]

Piapot Creek, Bear Creek and Skull Creek are near the "Bench" also known as the Cypress Hills plateau. After leaving the Maple Creek Plain, there is the Gull Lake Plain. Oil producing wells dot the landscape along with clumps of trees, sand hills, prairie grasses and wind turbines producing wind energy. [Citation | last =Government of Saskatchewan | title =Sask Biz Gull Lake No. 13 | url =http://www.saskbiz.ca/communityprofiles/communityprofile.asp?CommunityID=849 | accessdate =2007-08-12 ] cite web | title =History of Swift Current | work =City of Swift Current
date =2004 | url =http://www.city.swift-current.sk.ca/community.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=18
accessdate =2007-12-26 ]

Swift Current was originally founded at Riviere Au Courant which translates in English to Swift Current. The Swift Current Plateau is a prairie grasslands area. The Chaplin Plain is the next grassland ecoregion, and Highway 1 is just to the north of Chaplin Lake which is situated on a huge bed of salt, producing a saline lake. The Western Hemispheric Shorebird Reserve a large shorebird conservation area is located on Chaplin Lake, and is renowned internationally. [Citation
last =Environment Canada | title =Chaplin, Old Wives, Reed Lakes (Hemispheric) – Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network (WHSRN) Site | url =http://www.mb.ec.gc.ca/nature/whp/whsrn/df01s02.en.html | accessdate = 2007-05-15] This area between Swift current to Moose Jaw is considered to be part of the Missouri Coteau topographical area (extending south to the United States).Citation | last =Fung
first =Fa-iu | title =Atlas of Saskatchewan | place=Saskatoon | publisher =University of Saskatchewan | year =1999 |
edition =The Millennium Edition | url =http://www.rootsweb.com/~cansk/maps/saskatchewanatlas.html
isbn =0-88880-387-7 ]

The area to the south of Parkbeg is termed the Coteau Hills.Citation
last =Government of Saskatchewan | title =Sask Biz Wheatlands No. 163 | url =http://www.saskbiz.ca/communityprofiles/communityprofile.asp?CommunityID=1025 | accessdate =2007-08-12 ] Besant Regional Park and Campground is located west of Caronport.Citation | last =Government of Saskatchewan | title =Sask Biz Caronport
url =http://www.saskbiz.ca/communityprofiles/communityprofile.asp?CommunityID=474 | accessdate =2007-08-12 ] The Dirt Hills, a grasslands ecoregion are west of Moose Jaw. The city of Moose Jaw arose at the junction of Moose Jaw River and Thunder Creek. The Wakamow Valley has been developed with trails, playgrounds, and picnic areas.Citation | last =Government of Saskatchewan
title =Sask Biz Moose Jaw | url =http://www.saskbiz.ca/communityprofiles/communityprofile.asp?CommunityID=6
accessdate =2007-08-12 ] Nicole Flats Nature Area (Buffalo Pound Provincial Park) is a preserved feature of the area. Both Moose Jaw and Regina are situated upon moist mixed grassland ecoregions, specifically called the Regina Plain. Regina is located south of the junction of the Wascana and Qu'Appelle Rivers, and the area is now called Wascana Lake. Aspen parkland prairie is east of Regina. The Moose Mountain upland ecoregion is east of Regina and south of the Qu'Appelle River.

Fairly Lake is located within the town of Wolseley. The lake was created because the CPR dammed up Wolf Creek to provide water for steam locomotives.Citation | last =Government of Saskatchewan | title =Sask Biz Wolseley | url =http://www.saskbiz.ca/communityprofiles/communityprofile.asp?CommunityID=356 | accessdate =2007-08-12 ] Grenfell Regional Park is located west of Grenfell.Citation | last =Government of Saskatchewan | title =Sask Biz Grenfell | url =http://www.saskbiz.ca/communityprofiles/communityprofile.asp?CommunityID=264 | accessdate =2007-08-12 ]

Echo Valley, and Katepwa Point are two neighboring provincial parks near Broadview. Kipling Plain gives rise to the topographical feature called the Squirrel Hills and further to the east the Wood Hills. Moosomin Regional Park, is located to the south of the Trans–Canada highway in the Pipestone Valley on the shores of Moosomin Lake.Citation | last =Government of Saskatchewan | title =Sask Biz Moosomin
url =http://www.saskbiz.ca/communityprofiles/communityprofile.asp?CommunityID=300 | accessdate = 2007-08-12 The Melville Plain is the remaining ecoregion along the Trans–Canada highway before the Manitoba border.

Intersections from west to east

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Books

*Prairie Memories. Webb History Book Committee. Webb, Saskatchewan: Webb History Book Committee, 1982.

ee also

* List of Saskatchewan provincial highways

References

External links

* [http://www.milebymile.com/main/Canada/Saskatchewan/State_1_1/Canada_Saskatchewan_road_map_logs.html?printable=Y Saskatchewan #1 Trans–Canada Highway]
* [http://saskhighways.homestead.com/number.html Saskatchewan Highways Website–Highway Numbering ]
* [http://www.milebymile.com/main/Canada/Saskatchewan/Canada_Saskatchewan_road_map_travel_guides.html Saskatchewan Road Map RV Itineraries ]
* [http://www.bigthings.ca/bigsk.html Big Things of Canada, A Celebration of Community Monuments of Canada ]
* [http://www.tc.gc.ca/mediaroom/backgrounders/b04-R008e.htm Navigating the Trans–Canada Highway]
* [http://www.rootsweb.com/~canmaps/index.html Online Historical Map Digitization Project]
* [http://www.becquet.com/director/maps/index.htm Saskatchewan City & Town Maps] * [http://www.gov.sk.ca/Default.aspx?DN=c741080f-58e4-48b8-886b-636570392c49 Saskatchewan's Highway Network Government of Saskatchewan]
* [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0008090 Trans–Canada Highway] * [http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-73-678-3897/politics_economy/trans_canada/clip3 Trans–Canada Highway]
* [http://www.canlii.org/mb/laws/sta/t-140/20030602/whole.html Trans–Canada Highway Act]
* [http://www.infrastructure.gc.ca/research-recherche/result/heritage-patrimoniales/hm06_e.shtml Trans–Canada Netword]
* [http://www.tc.gc.ca/mediaroom/backgrounders/b04-R007e.htm Trans–Canada Highway Transport Canada]