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  Virtual Saskatchewan -- Moose Jaw's Colorful History
MOOSE JAW -- The tale is told of a popular River Street madam named Rosie Dale who ran afoul of Moose Jaw Police Chief Walter Johnson, a colorful cad who for more than 20 years ruled the streets of the city with a baton in one hand and ill-begotten money in the other.
Indeed, Moose Jaw history and lore looms large in a plan that would see tens of millions of dollars spent over the next several years on a series of tourism and cultural projects aimed at revitalizing the city.
The Tunnels of Moose Jaw is a high quality, interactive attraction that uses actor/guides and state-of-the-art animatronics to recreate the tunnel-and-basement underworld Chicago mobster Al Capone is believed to have frequented in the 1920s.
www.virtualsk.com /current_issue/engaging_history.html   (989 words)

  
 Moose Jaw, Canada
Moose Jaw, the "friendly city", is in the heart of the grain country, at the confluence of the Moose Jaw River and Thunder Creek.
Moose Jaw has Canada's busiest airfield (at the Canadian military base, south of the town) which is also home to the famous Snowbirds aerial acrobatic group.
In the Roaring Twenties Moose Jaw, at the end of a direct line from Chicago, was from where Al Capone and his fellow gangsters ran their liquor empires during Prohibition.
www.planetware.com /canada/moose-jaw-cdn-sk-skm.htm   (241 words)

  
 Canadian Relocation Systems, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
Moose Jaw, is situated at the junction of Thunder Creek and the Moose Jaw River.
According to the Geographical Board of Canada, Moose Jaw's name was derived from the Moose Jaw Creek reached by Captain Palliser on September 16, 1857.
Moose Jaw is the site of a branch of the Western Development Museum, which contains exhibits on the history of transportation systems, and the Moose Jaw Art Museum and National Exhibition Centre, which features displays of Plains Indians artifacts.
www.relocatecanada.com /moosejaw/index.html   (220 words)

  
 Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Moose Jaw is a city in south-central Saskatchewan, Canada on the Moose Jaw River 71 km west of Regina.
Moose Jaw is the Canadian city with the highest number of relatively cloudless days which makes it a good site for training pilots.
Although Moose Jaw is known as the 'Friendly City', it is not well-known that the city was the centre of the Ku Klux Klan in Saskatchewan.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moose_Jaw,_Saskatchewan   (1319 words)

  
 Saskatchewan: Moose Jaw on Family Time.
The Tunnels of Moose Jaw is an A+ activity for families with school aged children.
But to go to Moose Jaw and not have the water experience would be irresponsible because this is one of the earth’s well being zones.
The best news, The Moose Jaw Cultural Centre has raised over $5 million towards a $7.3 million performing and visual arts facility to be in the former Army and Navy and Capitol Theatre buildings on Main Street.
www.thefamilytravelfiles.com /ezine/articles/498.asp   (1493 words)

  
 Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada  -  Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Moose Jaw, city at the junction of Thunder Creek and the Moose Jaw River, southern Saskatchewan, Canada.
Located west of Regina, Moose Jaw is a commercial, distribution, and manufacturing center situated in a productive agricultural region.
The training base is also the home of the Snowbirds, an aerobatics team who perform across North America during the year and in Moose Jaw in July at the Moose Jaw Air Show.
www.galenfrysinger.com /moose_jaw_saskatchewan.htm   (251 words)

  
 Trans-Canada Highway: Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
This town of 34,000 is named for a big bend in Moose Jaw Creek, which was called moosicappusannissippi or "the creek that bends like a moose’s jaw." Another theory suggests that an early traveller fixed a cart wheel with a moose’s jaw bone found here.
In the mid 1800’s, the town was connected to Denver, using the Powder River Trail, which was used by ranchers and freighters before the railway came across the Canadian prairie.
These tunnels are rumored to have been dug by the Chinese in the late 1800s, and used during the 1920s Prohibition years to allow smugglers to smuggle liquor and escape capture.
www.transcanadahighway.com /Saskatchewan/MooseJaw.htm   (994 words)

  
 Moose Jaw - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It is a railroad and distribution center, with oil refineries, meatpacking and dairy-processing plants, flour, lumber, and woolen mills, stockyards, and Canada's largest jet-training base.
SASKATCHEWAN GOVERNMENT: Fund helps children and fa families in Moose Jaw and Davidson.
SASKATCHEWAN GOVERNMENT: Immigrants helped to make Mo Moose Jaw their new home.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-moosej1aw.html   (192 words)

  
 Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan: Moose Jaw's Online Community - a Moose Jaw web directory, guide, and portal serving Moose Jaw, ...
Moose Jaw is a city in south-central Saskatchewan, Canada on the Moose Jaw River.
Moose Jaw is aa retirement and tourist city that serves as a hub to the hundreds of small towns that make up that part of Saskatchewan.
Moose Jaw Families for Change was started by a group of residents in order to find alternative residential housing for intellectually challenged adults.
www.moosejawdirect.info   (323 words)

  
  MOOSE JAW ATTRACTIONS
Scenes depicting Moose Jaw's early history can be found on the sides and fronts of buildings throughout the downtown core.
The Saskatchewan Burrowing Owl Interpretive Centre (SBOIC) was first opened in 1997 to allow visitors to view owls that nested within the racetrack of the Moose Jaw Exhibition.
Early natives and settlers knew this area as the "elbow" or the "turn" of the Moose Jaw River.
www.inmoosejaw.com /attractions.htm   (1734 words)

  
 Moose Jaw Saskatchewan Real Estate
On average, Moose Jaw has the lowest housing costs among cities of 30,000 population or larger throughout Canada.
This compared to an average of $77,396 in Saskatchewan and a national average of $150,760.
Moose Jaw has a balance of older established neighbourhoods and quiet suburbs.
www.relocate-canada.com /sk/moose_jaw.htm   (345 words)

  
 Moose Jaw The Friendly City
Incorporated in 1883, it is a very picturesque city as it is situated in a valley where the Moose Jaw River and Thunder Creek meet, making for some beautiful parks and walking trails.
oose Jaw is centrally located in the Southern end of the province on the CPR mainline.
As well Moose Jaw is connected to three major highways, including the Trans Canada, providing easy access to and from all major North American locales.
www.moosejaw.20m.com   (170 words)

  
 Jaw Sports Moose Jaw Saskatchewan Sports Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Moose Jaw Tier Coaches for the 2004/2005 Hockey Season
Jaw Sports is looking for your feedback or discussion on issues or simply general comments about past, present or future events or articles.
Jaw Sports was created and is maintained in the memory of my brother, "David"
www.jawsports.com   (128 words)

  
 Furry Flash Dogsports, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
We moved to Moose Jaw a year ago to follow job opportunities.
We have two German Shorthaired Pointers that are well accomplished on the flyball lanes with Hudson attaining the title of Flyball Dog Grand Champion with 40,000 points and Dustie reaching the Onyx level with 20,000 points.
Hudson is also the #1 pointed GSP of all time in North America and has been ranked in the top 200 of all time out of the 16,000 + dogs that have played flyball.
www.flyballdogs.com /furryflash   (139 words)

  
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The Moose Jaw Exhibition Company is committed to the enhancement of the community by providing opportunities for quality entertainment, recreation and education.
The Moose Jaw Agricultural Society was formed in the summer of 1884.
The Moose Jaw Exhibition Company employs 15 people, has a 21-member volunteer board of directors, works with hundreds of volunteers and hosts over 85,000 visitors each year.
moosejawex.com   (366 words)

  
 GOVERNMENT OF CANADA SETS ASIDE $27.3 MILLION FOR REGIONAL WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS IN SASKATCHEWAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
MOOSE JAW, Saskatchewan – Residents from several Saskatchewan towns, villages and rural municipalities, including the Village of Caronport and the RM of Caron, may soon have a more reliable, sustainable source of domestic quality water.
Potential projects, as listed in the attached backgrounder, were selected based on their expected contributions to: providing a highly-reliable, secure, quality water source to rural communities in Saskatchewan; reducing barriers to expanding regional economic development opportunities; and meeting the Government of Canada’s commitment to provide safe, clean drinking water to First Nations communities.
An additional $147.7 million will be provided to Saskatchewan through the federal gas tax transfer and Saskatchewan communities are already receiving a full refund of their GST payments.
www.infrastructure.gc.ca /csif/publication/newsreleases/2005/20050704moosejaw_e.shtml   (985 words)

  
 Moose Jaw Warriors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Moose Jaw Warriors are a major junior hockey team of the Western Hockey League which are based out of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
The franchise moved to Moose Jaw from Winnipeg after the 1984 - 1985 season, where they had previously been named the Winnipeg Warriors.
Currently, the Warriors are in talks with the city of Moose Jaw about building a new arena to replace the outdated Moose Jaw Civic Centre, commonly referred to as "The Crushed Can" by many, due to its dimensions.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moose_Jaw_Warriors   (208 words)

  
 Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Local Attractions - Moose Jaw, SK, Canada
A pleasant stroll in and near downtown Moose Jaw puts you instantly in touch with our past.
33 Scenes depicting Moose Jaw's early history can be found on the sides and fronts of buildings throughout the downtown core.
Moose Jaw Trolley Company Experience our history as the guides recount our past through the streets of Moose Jaw.The Moose Jaw Trolley Company offers guided historic tours of Moose Jaw which depart from in front of Temple Gardens.
www.templegardens.sk.ca /local_attractions.html   (519 words)

  
 UFO Sighting Report July/August 1969 : Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
Message: Back in 1969, several members of my family and some neighbors across the street saw a shiny metallic cigar shaped object in the sky over the southwest area of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
However, several calls were placed to the airbase regarding the sighting and it was reported in the Moose Jaw Times Herald.
Also, back in 1947 when my mom was a girl, she and a number of students during recess at Westmount school in Moose Jaw saw several strange objects in formation hovering and moving in the sky above the school yard.
www.ufoinfo.com /sightings/canada/69julaug.shtml   (264 words)

  
 Main Street, Saskatchewan - Moose Jaw
Moose Jaw - the many myths aside, môsocâpiskan is the literal translation of "moose jaw" back into Cree.
Poultry exhibit at the Moose Jaw fair, c.
© 2002 Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists.
scaa.usask.ca /gallery/mainstreet/moosejaw.html   (72 words)

  
 eBay - moose jaw, Postcards Paper, Fan Apparel Souvenirs items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Moose Jaw, first multi-room school in N. Territories
Moose Jaw, Joyner's Department Store 75th ann., 'Scoop'
Split Ring Moose Jaw ASSA 1899 on Scott 75
search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=moose+jaw+...&krd=1   (240 words)

  
 Moose Jaw Saskatchewan Information, Yellow Pages, and more
Our Free Classifieds for the State of Saskatchewan offer items such as used horse trailers, cars, trucks, motorcycles, outboard motors, books, horses, dogs, real estate listings including homes, businesses, and land, apartments for rent, boats and many other items that are for sale by owner.
Our History, Trivia and Facts Pages are populated with interesting, useless and random facts pertaining to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan history, Canadian history, family history and the history of names.
Our Free Message Boards Saskatchewan daily to ensure the appropriateness of the topics for visitors of all ages.
www.hometowncanada.com /sk/Moose_Jaw.html   (578 words)

  
 Violin Moose Jaw, SK, Saskatchewan Violinists, Moose Jaw Violinists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Most Gigmasters violinists in Moose Jaw have audio and video samples available on their Gigmasters press kits.
A talented Moose Jaw violinist may need to be booked several months in advance.
Here are the online press kits of 7 professional Moose Jaw violinists and violinists who will travel to Moose Jaw to perform at your event.
www.gigmasters.com /Violin/Violin_MooseJaw_SK.asp   (839 words)

  
 Harp Moose Jaw, SK, Saskatchewan Harpists, Moose Jaw Harpists
Gigmasters has many harpists in Moose Jaw, and most of them have multiple audio and video samples available on their online press kits.
Many Gigmasters clients who have hired a harp player in Moose Jaw SK have left useful feedback about their experiences.
Professional harpists in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan may need to be booked 6 to 12 months in advance.
www.gigmasters.com /Harp/Harp_MooseJaw_SK.asp   (911 words)

  
 Medical and Nursing jobs in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan - MedHunters
When most people think of Saskatchewan, their minds immediately jump to images of vast wheat fields dotted by the occasional grain silo.
To understand Moose Jaw's past, a must-see attraction is the Tunnels of...
No need to be afraid of the weather in Moose Jaw (pop.
www.medhunters.com /jobs/moose-jaw-saskatchewan-canada.html   (216 words)

  
 Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Bed and Breakfast - Moose Jaw B&B from Pamela Lanier
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Bed and Breakfast - Moose Jaw B&B from Pamela Lanier
Search our database of Moose Jaw B&Bs and you'll find detailed listings, current rates, and special deals for bed and breakfasts in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
Travel Author, Pamela Lanier, is a recognized travel expert, personally committed to supporting the bed and breakfast lodging industry.
www.lanierbb.com /moose-jaw-saskatchewan-bed-breakfast.html   (154 words)

  
 DiscoverMooseJaw.com - It's All About Your Community - Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
A growing number of Moose Jaw and area people are getting sick.
The Calgary Hitmen take the the game from the Moose Jaw Warriors.
Moose Jaw looks to bond as a team during the mini-road trip they're currently on.
www.discovermoosejaw.com   (317 words)

  
 Moose Jaw Travel Guide:Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, hotels, restaurants, activities & attractions
Moose Jaw Travel Guide:Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, hotels, restaurants, activities and attractions
Kelowna, British Columbia is your gateway to the Okanagan and the perfect place to visit.
Although the information provided is believed to be correct, it is not guaranteed to be so.
moosejaw.explored.ca   (267 words)

  
 Nature Moose Jaw Saskatchewan Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
March 28, 1957 - first organizational meeting held in the home of Mrs.
November 15, 1958 - Constitution adopted at first meeting in the Moose Jaw Public Library
Are Held On the second Friday of the month, September to May, 7:15 p.m.
naturemoosejaw.ca   (97 words)

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