- Saskatoon is a magical city, a place with a
rare combination of big city convenience and small town spirit.
Saskatoon is a safe, clean, and friendly city with a good quality
of life.
- Residents of Saskatoon enjoy a high standard
of living, adequate health care, a low crime rate, low housing
costs (the average price of a starter home is $108,000), little
traffic congestion, and the air quality and water quality is among
the best in the world. It's seen as a good place to raise a family.
- The area that is now Saskatoon has been inhabited
for some 8,000 years by the peoples of the Plains Cree nation.
The first European settlers only arrived in 1883.
- The name Saskatoon comes from the Plains Cree
Indian name "Mis-sask-quah-toomina", the name the Cree gave to
indigenous wild berries, known today as Saskatoon berries.
- Saskatoon has a population of 212,000 making
it the largest city in the province of Saskatchewan.
- Saskatoon has a spectacular riverbank setting
that overlooks the South Saskatchewan River and it's 300 acres
of riverbank parklands.
- The University of Saskatchewan campus, located
in Saskatoon, was recently chosen as one of the twenty most beautiful
places in Canada by Canadian Living magazine. Saskatoon boasts
one of the best-educated populations in North America. More than
13 percent of adult residences hold college degrees.
- Saskatoon is a vibrant and diverse city - a
university town, an agriculture service centre, a base for mining
and manufacturing, a flourishing high tech industry, and one of
the top ten cities in the world for agricultural biotechnology.
Local companies routinely compete head-to-head with firms anywhere
in the world, and win.
- Saskatoon is bound to become known as Science
City. The Canadian Light Source, which is now under construction
at the University of Saskatchewan, will become a national source
for synchrotron light research. The Canadian Light Source will
become one of only six third-generation synchrotrons in the world.
It will attract 2,000 science researchers per year from around
the world, once all of the Synchrotron's beamlines are fully operational
in 2008. At a cost of $175 million it is the largest single science
project ever undertaken in Canada.
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