A short little series highlighting some of the towns, big and small, of Saskatchewan. Most of the information below is taken from wikepedia. I hope you enjoy a quick geography lesson of our lovely province.
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Cupar became a village in 1905 and received its name from Canadian Pacific Railway official for the town of Cupar in Fife, Scotland. The town celebrated its centennial in 2005. Cupar is proud to the be home of the talented, nationally known artist Jacqueline Berting of the Berting Glass studio located north of the town. Her most famous work to date is the "The Glass Wheatfield", encompassing 14,000 waist high glass wheat stalks, each piece individually hand cut and lamp worked. Berting calls her work "A Salute to the Canadian farmer." The town has been made famous for the Cupar Gopher Drop, a unique lottery held every summer. Stuffed toy gophers (Richardson's Ground Squirrels) labelled with numbers are dropped from a hot-air balloon along with numbered gopher holes. The "owner" of the gopher that lands nearest Hole 1 wins first prize, and so on.