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Looking for Aiktow: stories behind the history of the elbow of the South Saskatchewan River.

Looking for Aiktow: stories behind the history of the elbow of the South Saskatchewan River.

Book 2014

"First was the land. Then came the people. Elbow's history grows out of its locatioin." Just as the water of the Aiktow still flows unseen through the lake, a current from events long past moves through life here today. From the earliest people who first flaked their spear points and fashioned their cooking pots from the clay along the banks of the South Saskatchewan River more than 4,000 years ago, to the poel who last launched their kayaks into...