Esk
The old church in Esk ©Chris Attrell In Canada, The Yellowhead Highway runs from Winnipeg, Manitoba to Graham Island off the coast of British Columbia. Please note that that island is not named after Mr Graham Edwards who resides on The Isle of Lewis which is not named after the F1 driver Lewis Hamilton. The Yellowhead Highway runs for 1800 miles and right across the province of Saskatchewan through Saskatoon and on to Yorkton. Between those places there are numerous little settlements close to that vital connecting road including Elfros, Mozart, Wynard, Kandahar, Dafoe and Jansen. Between Jansen and Lanigan you will find what remains of the village of Esk. Esk was never a big place but it grew into a farming community as the great prairie lands of North America were opened up and made profitable. At first there were small, labour-intensive farms where mechanisation was limited and horses, oxen and mules were still used by farmers. This was where Mr Keith Kline...