The vast majority of CA supporters in most provinces supported, and continued to support their provincial Progressive Conservative parties, while most supporters in Saskatchewan remained loyal to the Saskatchewan Party.

Saskatchewan's Progressive Conservative Party effectively ceased to exist in 1997, when the Saskatchewan Party was formed primarily from former PC Members of the Legislative Assembly ( MLAs ) with a few Liberal Party MLAs joining them.

* Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan

* Progressive Party of Saskatchewan

* Social Credit Party of Saskatchewan

The Reform Party also supported the populist conservative Saskatchewan Party formed in 1997 as well as the Liberal Party of British Columbia under Gordon Campbell.

The paper had endorsed a third party on two occasions at the provincial level: it endorsed the social-democratic New Democratic Party in the 1991 Saskatchewan provincial election and British Columbia provincial election.

On November 7, 1987, Romanow replaced Allan Blakeney as leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party.

* Tommy Douglas ( 1904 – 1986 ), premier of Saskatchewan and leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada

Matters were made worse for the federal NDP after Saskatchewan's NDP Premier Roy Romanow resigned in 2000 after the party lost seats in the 1999 Saskatchewan provincial election, and afterwards suggested that the federal NDP should merge with the Liberal Party.

Between 1993 and 1997, Blaikie was the only New Democratic Party MP to represent a riding east of Saskatchewan.

Calvert, was the leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party from 2001 to June 6, 2009, when he was succeeded by Dwain Lingenfelter.

Calvert and the NDP narrowly defeated the centre-right opposition Saskatchewan Party in the 2003 provincial election.

It depicted Saskatchewan Party leader Elwin Hermanson loading NDP sympathizers onto rail cars.

The cartoon referred to speculation that, if elected, Hermanson would replace civil servants who were NDP supporters with Saskatchewan Party supporters.

Calvert and his government were defeated in the 2007 provincial election, dropping to 20 seats while the Saskatchewan Party under Brad Wall won a majority government with 38.

Category: Saskatchewan New Democratic Party MLAs

It also spread northward into Canada, running in provincial elections and providing some of the basis for the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in Saskatchewan and the Progressive Party of Canada.

* Social Credit Party of Saskatchewan

David Orchard ( born June 28, 1950, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian author and political figure, member of the Liberal Party of Canada, who was the Liberal Party candidate for the Saskatchewan riding of Desnethé — Missinippi — Churchill River in the 2008 federal election.

In Saskatchewan, and much of Atlantic Canada, " supper " means the main meal of the day, usually served in the late afternoon, while " dinner " is served around noon.

For example, Karloff was featured because he served as a rescue worker following a devastating 1912 tornado in Regina, Saskatchewan, where he was appearing in a play many years before horror films made him famous.

Hnatyshyn was born and educated in Saskatchewan and also served in the Royal Canadian Air Cadets prior to being elected to the House of Commons in 1974, whereafter he served as a minister of the Crown in two non-successive governments until 1988.

He retired from politics in 1979 and served on the board of directors of Husky Oil, an Alberta oil and gas exploration company that had holdings in Saskatchewan.

In 1926 Stewart served as an emissary from King to recruit Saskatchewan Premier Charles Avery Dunning to the federal cabinet ; the mission fulfilled, King kept Stewart in cabinet but wrote in his diary that all matters pertaining to Alberta were to be " left to Dunning to do as he thinks best ".

From 1971 to 1982, he served as deputy premier of Saskatchewan.

Designed by David Roberston Brown ( architect ), the Memorial Gates were erected in 1927 at the corner of College Drive and Hospital Drive in honour of the University of Saskatchewan alumni who served in the First World War.

The hallways of the Old Administrative Building ( College Building ) at the University of Saskatchewan are decorated with memorial scrolls in honour of the University of Saskatchewan alumni who served in the World Wars.

, the Laestadian Lutheran Church has 29 member congregations in the United States and Canada, with highest concentrations of members in Minnesota, Washington, Arizona, Michigan in the United States and in Saskatchewan, Canada ; the congregations are served by 68 ministers, nearly all of them lay preachers.

* Canadian Regional Airlines, which served 69 destinations in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, the Northwest Territories, Ontario, and the United States.

She served as Alberta representative to the Board of Governors of the Canadian Conference of the Arts ( 1996 – 2000 ). She is a member of the Writers ’ Union of Canada, the Writers ’ Guild of Alberta, the Saskatchewan Writers ’ Guild and PEN.

Current Saskatchewan Conservative MPs who have been historically involved with the Saskatchewan Party include Carol Skelton, who served on Elwin Hermanson's constituency executive ; Tom Lukiwski, who served as a General Manager of the Saskatchewan Party ; Garry Breitkreuz, who supported the formation of the party ; and Lynne Yelich, who worked for Allan Kerpan while Kerpan served as MP and received funding from him in the 2006 federal election.

" Piffles " Taylor, a First World War fighter pilot and postwar lawyer who played and coached rugby union and football in the city, and subsequently served as president of the Regina Roughriders ( forerunner of the Saskatchewan Roughriders ), the Canadian Rugby Union and the Western Interprovincial Football Union.

The province's name is derived from the Saskatchewan River.

In 2008, the government of Saskatchewan declared the walleye to be the province's official fish.

In the summer of 1962, Saskatchewan became the centre of a hard-fought struggle between the provincial government, the North American medical establishment, and the province's physicians, who brought things to a halt with the 1962 Saskatchewan Doctors ' Strike.

The Saskatchewan Party won 38 seats in the Legislative Assembly, and leader Brad Wall was sworn in as the province's 14th Premier on November 21, 2007.

For the first 25 years of the province's existence, political power was split between the Saskatchewan Liberal Party in government, and the Conservatives ( initially the Provincial Rights Party ) in opposition.

In 1964, a special flag was granted to Saskatchewan in honour of the province's sixtieth anniversary.

* January 28-The government of Saskatchewan takes over the province's potash industry.

The party dominated Saskatchewan politics for the province's first forty years providing six of the first seven Premiers, and being in power for all but five of the years between the province's creation in 1905 and World War II.

The Progressive Party of Saskatchewan, a farmers movement, elected six MLAs in the 1921 provincial election as well as in the 1925 election and five in 1929 but were never able to field candidates in more than half a dozen of the province's 63 ridings.

Unlike the Saskatchewan CCF, which had won office in the 1944 Saskatchewan election on a platform calling for social programs, the Alberta CCF was more radical and campaigned on provincial ownership of the province's resources and utilities.

Lloyd's government had to cope with the July 1962 Saskatchewan Doctors ' Strike, when the province's physicians withdrew service in an attempt to defeat the Medicare initiative.

Haultain was appointed to the province's superior court by Canadian Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden in 1912, and the Provincial Rights Party became the Saskatchewan Conservative Party.

In September 2004, Brad Wall released The Promise of Saskatchewan: A New Vision for Saskatchewan's Economy, a plan to grow the province's economy.

The party's zenith was the 1982 provincial election, where the WCC won more votes than the Saskatchewan Liberal Party candidate in 23 of the province's 64 constituencies.

An example of this scenario in action is found in Saskatchewan, where the " dormant " Progressive Conservatives continued to run at least ten candidates in the province's general elections until the relevant law was amended, to keep its registration with Elections Saskatchewan ( and to avoid losing control of what is believed to be a substantial amount of money ).

On May 19, 2005, Butt hosted a Command Performance gala for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan to celebrate the Canadian province's centennial.

On November 4, 2003, he was named as the province's first Minister of Water Stewardship ( created after highly-publicized water contamination tragedies in Walkerton, Ontario and North Battleford, Saskatchewan ).

It was located in the province's mid-northern region, close to the provincial border with Saskatchewan.

GDI offers a variety of accredited educational, vocational, and skills training opportunities for the province's Métis in partnership with the University of Regina, the University of Saskatchewan, the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology, the province's various regional colleges, and Service Canada.