Prairie Places - Ponteix, Saskatchewan Traditional Cache
Prairie Places - Ponteix, Saskatchewan
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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. Bring your own writing stick
Ponteix is a town in southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada, 86 km (53 mi) southeast of Swift Current. It is located on Highway 628 just north of Highway 13. In 1908, Father Albert-Marie Royer from the Auvergne region in France established a parish and hamlet called Notre-Dame d’Auvergne north of Notukeu Creek. Five years later, the townsite was moved south of the creek when the Canadian Pacific Railway laid track south of the creek. After the move, the community was renamed Ponteix after Father Royer's former parish in France. Plesiosaur Statue: Near Ponteix was the site of a plesiosaur find in the early 1990s. In 1995 community members and students of Ponteix school contributed small articles to this plesiosaur statue before it was filled with cement and painted by the towns people in a ceremony commemorating the discovery of the original plesiosaurs bones.
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