"Towns & Places"

Abernethy:  In 1933 the community of Abernethy was located along the Canadian Pacific Railway Southeast of Lipton Saskatchewan.  At the turn of the Century, Lipton was well know as the drop off point for homesteaders, as it was then the end of the rail line.  By 1933 the CPR line from Lipton connected up through Nokomis to Lanigan, where connections East to Dafoe or Wynyard could easily be made.

On March 28th, Doctor Austman summoned a nurse from Abernethy to care for nine month old Irene Dougherty who was suffering from Pneumonia.  The trip for the nurse was long and complicated.  After riding the train all day from Abernethy, she was picked up at 5pm by Tom Bolt in his car at Saniga and driven to Bolt's place at Dafoe.  She was then conveyed by horse team to Sparrows' on section 29, as it was spring breakup and Tom didn't want to take the risk of his car getting stuck and the nurse being stranded.  Tom's brother Frank met him with George Fennemore's team and drove her from Sparrows' to Doughertys' on NW 11.  The next day Clarence was asked to meet the noon train at Dafoe to pick up medicine for Irene, who later completely recovered.  Irene now lives in Regina.

Abernethy, originally named after a place in Scotland, exists today as a small village of only 200 residents.  It is 32 miles Northwest of Fort Qu'Appelle off highway 10 toward Melville.

Big Quill - Quill Lake
Copeland
Dafoe
Elfros
Foote
Kandahar
Kandahar grade
Saniga - train siding or station?

Saline Creek Crossing: Saline Creek flows from the West side of the new number six highway toward the Southwest, joining Wolverine creek before flowing into Last Mountain Lake south of Watrous.  This land area Southwest of Big Quill Lake has always been a wetland bog, and is know locally as the Alkali Flats and in school books as the Great Salt Plains.  The only safe place to traverse the bog between Last Mountain and Big Quill Lakes was by crossing Saline Creek at a dry section along the correction line about 3 miles west of Percy Luck's store.  The  Saline crossing was on a section of the old Telegraph Trail that ran between North Battleford and Fort Qu'Appelle long before the turn of the century.

Southwind
Saline School District
Wadina - hospital
Wynyard