Sunsets are wonderful reflected in our lakes. This is Pasqua Lake at sunset taken from Standing Buffalo First Nation, just across the bridge from Echo Valley Provincial Park.
Beautiful brick-work designs on the Standing Buffalo Dakota School on the land-bridge between Echo and Pasqua Lakes, as well as the building’s architecture, set it apart.
This spectacular view from a point on the north side of Pasqua Lake clearly shows the land-bridge between Pasqua Lake in the foreground and Echo Lake visible in the background.
Just north of Echo Lake is the Town of Lipton. Shown here is a mural on the Lipton Hotel with the community’s main street behind it.
Not too far from Lipton in a Jewish Cemetery established in1901 (take Hayward Road east from Hwy. 35). It is all that remains of a once-thriving Jewish farming community.
Two or three times a year Lipton hosts the popular Mud-Bogs. Engines screaming, mud flying — fun for the whole family. This one was held in the fall.
Golfers at the picturesque Echo Ridge as well as the Katepwa Beach golf courses can play 9 or 18 holes on both these nine-hole courses.
Tourists looking for information may do so at the Fort Qu’Appelle Tourist Information Centre located in the old CN Station established in 1911.
The Fallen Eagle statue at Fort Qu’Appelle’s Court House commemorates Cree, Saulteaux and Assiniboine people buried at this site during treaty negotiations around 1874 to 1890.
The tee-pee structure at the Treaty 4 Governance Centre is the largest enclosed tee-pee structure in Canada. Used as a conference hall, it has excellent acoustics due to its shape.
A morning fall mist dances in the distance on Echo Lake as seen from the now-quiet Splash Park at the Fort Campground.
The Qu’Appelle River meanders through Fort Qu’Appelle and then flows into Mission Lake visible here in the distance.
A quiet, mirror-surface on Mission Lake is broken only by the wake of a motor boat making its way across the water.
Canada Geese gather in the Qu’Appelle Valley every fall spending some time resting as well as raiding farmers’ crops around the valley before continuing their long journey south.
Whole fishing villages spring up on the ice during the long winter months. This one is on Mission Lake, taken in 2020.
Travelling along the north shore of Mission Lake, Highway 56 takes you to Lebret where you’ll see the Stations of the Cross going up the hill to a small church.
Reflections on Mission Lake of Lebret’s Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, established in 1865, as viewed from the pier at Hafford Beach.
A view of the dock at Hafford Beach in Lebret with mirror-still water reflecting tree, rocks and shore across Mission Lake as well as the clouds in the sky.
