Backgrounder 2016 South Saskatchewan Announcement Grand total investment*: $20.7M
Backgrounder
Grasslands National Park (NP)
Grasslands National Park, located in southwestern Saskatchewan, is Canada’s first national park established to represent the mixed-grass prairie natural region. The first major land purchase of Grasslands National Park was in 1984. In the dry hills, badlands and eroded river valleys in and around Grasslands National Park, a diversity of wildlife, including pronghorns, greater sage grouse, prairie rattlesnakes and the only remaining black-tailed prairie dog colonies in Canada, can still be found. The park has a strong natural, cultural and paleontological heritage.
List of projects:
Project name: Grasslands National Park - Firehall Rehabilitation
Estimated total: $1.5M
Project description: Recapitalization of the Firehall to address requirements for fire suppression and prescribed burn programs.
Project name: Grasslands National Park - Fencing Repairs and Replacement
Estimated total: $3M
Project description: Repair or replace existing fences in order for them to meet the standard for Bison control.
Project name: Grasslands National Park - East and West Block Visitor Facilities
Estimated total: $2.3M
Project description: The prime objective of the project is to replace, restore or upgrade East and West Block visitor facilities and by doing so, providing permanent, safer, better quality and more durable facilities with a focus on the Rock Creek Campground.
Project name: Presenting the Prairie Icons program
Estimated total: $4.5M
Project description: Improve the shrublands ecosystem of the park’s prairie landscape by enhancing and restoring black-tailed prairie dog and greater sage-grouse habitat, using natural processes such as fire and grazing to increase habitat availability. This project also aims to increase visitation through improved infrastructure (sustainable trails and developed campgrounds) and enhanced programming. Another component will include the engagement of park volunteers in mapping prairie dog colonies, participating in sagebrush habitat restoration, and marking fences to minimize sage-grouse mortality.
Batoche National Historic Site (NHS)
Batoche NHS commemorates the history of the Métis community of Batoche; home of Métis culture and heritage as well as the events surrounding the armed conflict between the Canadian government and the Métis provisional government in 1885. The site also commemorates the River Lot system, portions of the Carlton Trail and the roles of the First Nations in the 1885 Resistance.
List of projects:
Project name: Batoche Visitor Experience Shared Management Board Management Plan
Estimated total: $880K
Project description: This project will provide for Métis cultural interpretation and family gathering opportunities, a new trail network, interactive displays, and opportunities for the celebration of Métis culture to be added to the site’s management plan. A request for proposal for a storyboard on the landscape will also be completed through this fund.
Project name: Enhancement of Batoche National Historic Site Shared Management Board Visitor Experience Renewal
Estimated total: $121K
Project description: To further enhance the Batoche Shared Management Visitor Experience Renewal project by developing new interpretive exhibits and trail walk interpretive programs.
Project name: Batoche National Historic Site - Administration/Maintenance Building Renewal
Estimated total: $417K
Project description: To replace or repair the Maintenance and Administration building's roof, HVAC system, and the wastewater treatment Rotating Biological Contactor.
Fort Battleford National Historic Site (NHS)
Fort Battleford NHS showcases the role of the North West Mounted Police in the Canadian West. The fort was established in 1876 and abandoned in 1924. It offers five original buildings, four with period furniture. The stockades and bastions are reconstructed, and the barracks has an interpretive display.
List of projects:
Project name: Fort Battleford National Historic Site - Palisade Replacement
Estimated total: $1.1M
Project description: Replace Fort Battleford NHS Palisade to improve visitor safety.
Fort Walsh National Historic Site (NHS)
Fort Walsh is situated in the scenic Battle Creek Valley of the Cypress Hills of southwestern Saskatchewan. The reason for designation in 1924 was as follows: “The fort served from 1878 to 1882 as the headquarters of the North-west Mounted Police, and the fort played a key role in imposing Canadian law from 1875 to 1883, in implementing Canada’s Indian policy and in supervising the Lakota who fled to Canada under Tatanka Iyotanka (Sitting Bull) after the Battle of Little Big Horn.”
List of projects:
Project name: Fort Walsh National Historic Site - Visitor Centre Exhibit and Building Rehabilitation
Estimated total: $2.5M
Project description: To enhance the sustainability of the structure by replacing the wooden siding and addressing deficiencies in the building skirting and washroom areas. Improvements to address visitor flow and experience will also be completed.
Project name: Fort Walsh National Historic Site - Access Road and Parking Rehabilitation
Estimated total: $1.5M
Project description: Redesign and rehabilitate the road and parking lot damage which has occurred from annual spring run-off.
Project name: Echoes of the Broken Hills - Fort Walsh Film
Estimated total: $222K
Project description: To develop a film, titled Echoes of the Broken Hills, to provide context of the Cypress Hills Massacre and how it led to the establishment of Fort Walsh National Historic Site.
Project name: Fort Walsh National Historic Site Visitor Center Exhibits
Estimated total: $465K
Project description: To fund the development, fabrication and installation of new exhibits to tell the story of Fort Walsh NHS and the Aboriginal history associated with the Cypress Hills area.
Project name: Fort Walsh National Historic Site- Maintenance Building Rehabilitation
Estimated total: $286K
Project description: To rehabilitate components of the Fort Walsh NHS maintenance building in order to bring the building to new standards and codes.
Project name: Fort Walsh National Historic Site - Historic Building Roof
Estimated total: $500K
Project description: This project will replace cedar shingles on three historic buildings and one bastion and install steel structure for additional stabilization.
Project name: Fort Walsh National Historic Site - Boundary Fence Rehabilitation
Estimated total: $396K
Project description: Rehabilitation of fence lines at three national heritage sites to prevent livestock and public access to site.
Motherwell Homestead National Historic Site (NHS)
Located near Abernethy, Saskatchewan, Motherwell Homestead tells the story of Western Canada’s settlement, Canada’s developing agricultural economy and its governance as seen through William Richard Motherwell’s contributions to provincial and federal politics. Motherwell Homestead stands out from the surrounding fields: a grand stone house, a commanding barn, flourishing gardens and rows of trees.
List of projects:
Project name: Motherwell Homestead National Historic Site - Visitor Centre - Rehabilitation
Estimated total: $1.2M
Project description: This project has two objectives. The first is to enhance the sustainability of the visitor centre. This includes structural repairs to the building and will also address visitor flow and experience areas including the entrance kiosk and information centre. The second includes replacement or repair of recreational and interpretive elements of the visitor centre. This includes interpretive displays and exhibits which are dated as well as outside recreational facilities which will be assessed for safety. Appropriate repairs and/or replacements will be done after proper assessment.
* Please note that the sum of individual project values may not equal the grand total indicated at the top of this document due to standard rounding errors.
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