Shaunavon

The town of Shaunavon is in southwest Saskatchewan at the junction of Highways 37 and 13. It is a hundred and ten kilometres from Swift Current, 163 kilometres from the Alberta border and seventy four kilometres from the Montana border. Shaunavon became hooked up in 1913 along the Canadian Pacific Railway line. The metropolis has several nicknames consisting of Bone Creek Basin, Boomtown, and Oasis of the Prairies. The latter call is derived from the park located within the centre of town.

The Shaunavon Formation, a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin is named for the city. Before a thousand CE, simplest awesome technological traditions have been gift at the Canadian plains. Archaeologists refer to them because the Besant and Avonlea levels. Besant websites first appeared at the japanese plains of Minnesota about 2 hundred BCE. Makers of Avonlea era first seemed in the arid southern plains of Alberta and Saskatchewan three centuries later.

There isn't any physical or documentary evidence of a extensive and deadly "disorder" amongst recreation animals within the archaeological report, however by means of the 1760s HBC personnel have been reporting game shortages alongside the North Saskatchewan River. Archaeological research on the northern Great Plains have uncovered the have an effect on of the fur exchange from as early as the 1670s. Recognizing the advent and effect of epidemic sickness referred to as "virgin soil epidemic", ancient enjoy of indigenous populations.