Okay not really...sadly they did have a beautiful sculpture of a family of moose in Moose Jaw's lovely Crescent Park downtown but it was always being vandalized so now it sits in storage. How terrible is that... The name Moose Jaw isn't really the jaw of a moose but comes from a Cree name for the place, moscâstani-sîpiy, meaning “a warm place by the river”. The first two syllables, moscâ-, sound remarkably like “moose jaw”. Or it could refer to the shape of the Moose Jaw river which resembles a moose jaw. Hey I looked it up for this blog post because I didn't know either! Moose Jaw is a city of about 33,000 and lies 77 km west of my "resting place" of Regina, Saskatchewan. It has turned into quite a little tourist town now that they have "discovered" tunnels that were supposedly used by Al Capone (guess there was a direct railway from Chicago up to Moose Jaw) and also tunnels used by Chinese employees of the local laundrys. These were w
Tales of travel from a seventy plus girl at heart from the prairies of Canada.