About Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is one of the ten Provinces of Canada. It is situated in the heart of the Canadian prairies on the northern edge of the great northern plains and the southern edge of the Subarctic woodlands. It covers 651,903 square kilometers of prairies and forests.

Saskatchewan is comprised of five major ecological zones; from the grasslands in the south, to the aspen grove forest transition, to the mixed wood boreal forest, to the Precambrian Shield coniferous forest, to open lichen woodlands of the forest tundra transition in the far north.

People have lived in Saskatchewan for at least 12,000 years, leaving the province richly endowed with both precontact (that is, pre-1690 A.D.) and historical (contact) archaeological resources. At present, the Saskatchewan Heritage Resources Branch, the government agency which has responsibility for managing the archaeological resources of Saskatchewan and for maintaining the official archaeological site files, has approximately 22,000 sites on record.

Each point on the map of the Province of Saskatchewan represents one or a number of recorded archaeological sites (map courtesy of Saskatchewan Heritage Branch, Ministry of Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport, 9th Floor - 1919 Saskatchewan Drive, Regina, SK S4P 3V7; phone (306) 787-5772 for information about archaeological resource management, reporting sites, and laws relating to archaeological resources, or click here).