Porcupine Soldier Settlement Traditional Cache
Porcupine Soldier Settlement
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This cache is located at a historical site, and adjacent to a nearby cemetery. Please respect the location. BYOP
This historical site is here to recogniz the pioneers that homesteaded here in the " Porcupine Soldier Settlement" This settlement was the largest in Saskatchewan with 200,000 acers.
his location also has a cairn that commemorates St. Andrews Church and the Red Cross Outpost which served the pioneers of the Porcupine Soldier Settlement.
A bit of area Trivia:
1919 - About 200,000 acres were surveyed into 240 acre parcels known as Soldier Grants. They were one quarter section and an eighty which made, east and west, roads 1 1/2 miles apart instead of two miles. First veterans to file soldier's grant were Roy Busteed & Bob Green (members of the survey crew). J. Shand settled in 1925.
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