The entire Province of Saskatchewan has about the same number of people as the metro area of Salt Lake City, Utah. This place of approximately a million souls has produced a surprising number of people who've gained national and international acclaim for their achievements.
Some are alive; some are no longer with us. But all are Saskatchewan folks (a few aren't, but we claim them as our own) who've distinguished themselves in their chosen areas of endeavour.
W.O. Mitchell (1914-1998) Writer Bill Mitchell was a two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Award for humour, an Officer of the Order of Canada and a feisty raconteur who was born in Weyburn, in the southeast portion of the province. His novels Who Has Seen the Wind and Jake and Kid, both set in rural Saskatchewan, remain standards of Prairie prose.
