With #NaturalGas use increasing across the province, the Corporation decides to hold the Great Gourmet in 1972. With the intention of teaching Saskatchewanians how to use natural gas to cook, they hold a gourmet cooking competition—with varied but (usuall
By the end of the decade, there are over 400 communities across the province being served by #Saskatchewan Power Corporation, with 47 being added in 1949 alone. There are also 7390 km of transmission lines connecting the province.
With the war now in the
The reality of living in a post- #WWII #Saskatchewan is that materials necessary for building transmission lines are not always easy to access. Instead, the Commission decides to get a little creative.
Using salvaged materials, the Commission builds an ad
Over the course of ten years, one #GreatDepression, and an unbelievably damaging drought, #Saskatchewan is able to make it out alive; bruised, but intact. By 1939, the Commission now has 2309 km of transmission lines—nearly the same as the distance betwee
