Boiler Junction Shelter
The place
Boiler Junction Shelter in eastern Saskatchewan, Hudson Bay/Wapella area (Duck Mountain Provincial Park Manitoba/Saskatchewan border, Saskatchewan, Canada), at 531 m elevation, prairie parkland plateau. Continuous Canada Prairie cluster (batches 260-389). Provincial park shelter on the Trans-Canada Trail (Boiler Junction historic railway boiler crossing + Duck Mountain Provincial Park 260 km² 1959 + Trans-Canada Trail/Great Trail, 28,000 km, world's longest recreational network, 1992, iconic + Cree/Assiniboine/Sioux Dakota heritage (Plains Cree Algonquian people, 500,000, nêhiyawêwin language + Assiniboine 60,000, Nakota/Nakoda language + Treaty 4, 15 September 1874, Fort Qu'Appelle, reserves + Métis heritage, Louis Riel 1844-1885, North-West Rebellion 1885, provisional government at Batoche + Riel executed by hanging in Regina, 16 November 1885, a Quebec-Canada controversy + Cypress Hills Massacre 1873, 22 Assiniboine killed by American whisky traders + creation of the NWMP North-West Mounted Police 1873, iconic forerunner of the RCMP).
The setting
Eastern Saskatchewan Hudson Bay/Wapella Duck Mountain PP MB/SK Canada 531 m prairie parkland plateau, continuous cluster batches 260-389, Trans-Canada Trail provincial park shelter Boiler Junction railway crossing + Duck Mountain PP 260 km² 1959 + Trans-Canada Great Trail 28,000 km world's longest recreational network 1992, Cree/Assiniboine/Sioux Plains Cree Algonquian 500,000 nêhiyawêwin + Assiniboine 60,000 Nakota/Nakoda + Treaty 4 15 Sept 1874 Fort Qu'Appelle reserves + Métis Louis Riel 1844-1885 North-West 1885 Batoche + Riel Regina 16 Nov 1885 hanging + Cypress Hills 1873 22 Assiniboine whisky traders + NWMP 1873 RCMP.
