Meet Bob Phillips, SEAWA's Executive Director...
I love this land and can trace my family across the landscape. Before these were the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan we came to the Northwest Territories in 1903. We came to this watershed, the South Saskatchewan River watershed, to survey the land and break prairie wool. My family homesteaded west of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th meridians. My grandfather Whit homesteaded just north of Medicine Hat at Empress on the provincial border. My family built grain elevators and the Blue Bird Café at Regina Beach, they were engineers, surveyors, educators, editors and entrepreneurs, and they named towns. They learned about the land and they wrote about it. I inherited a love of this prairie watershed. |
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Worth Repeating
When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1746
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