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The 2009 Schedule of Events
Photo gallery of 2008 festival
Photo Gallery of 2009 musicians & entertainers
Over 2500 people attended our first festival in 2008... 3000 attended in 2009!! There was loads of great entertainment for the whole family all day and Prairie Berries' Saskatoonberry pie was OUTSTANDING! Prairie Berries, a gold sponsor, supplies all the fresh berries (weather permitting) and those fantastic fresh made pies.
Plan to attend with the whole family on Saturday July 3, 2010. Be early, don't miss the parade! For information , including booth reservations, call Ron Locke 355-2236.
Admission: $5 per person or $15 per family Bring your lawnchairs & sunscreen! Dogs welcome if kept on a leash.
To subscribe to the Mortlach Saskatoonberry Newsletter and receive all updates about what is planned as we approach the festival starting January, please click here
For Saskatoonberry Recipes, click here.
Saskatoon berries are not from Saskatoon and have nothing to do with Saskatoon as a 'Place Name' as such. They are more commonly known as the serviceberry or juneberry and are native to northern North America. The Cree Indians called the berry "misaskwatomin" or "missakqhahtoomina", meaning "fruit of the tree of many branches", which got anglicized to "saskatoon". The word sounded alot like "saskatoon" to John Lake a Methodist minister of a group that had settled on the banks of the South Saskatchewan River in 1882-1883.
So saskatoonberries are actually misaskwatominberries.......and to top it all off, they aren't a berry at all, but a kind of a very small apple! Maybe that is why they make such great pie....
For a wonderful article on how important this berry is to the people of Saskatchewan, click here
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