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During the winter months, average temperatures in Saskatoon can be as cold as −20.7 °C (−5.3 °F). [1] The Saskatoon freezing deaths involved Indigenous Canadians in and immediately outside Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, in the 1990s and early 2000s, and are suspected of being linked to actions by the members of the Saskatoon Police Service (SPS
Miklos Samual Kanitz (1939 – November 9, 2006) was a Hungarian-Canadian Holocaust survivor living in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.He narrowly escaped being transported to the German death camp at Auschwitz in June 1944 at the age of six, because a neighbor, whose son was a member of the Hungarian fascist Arrow Cross Party, risked her life to hide Kanitz, his mother, and his brother in her potato ...
Shortly after the 2018 crash involving the Humboldt Broncos, surviving members of the team flew to Saskatoon to meet with injured players and their families. [17] Sheldon Kennedy offered his thoughts on the grieving process that all those involved should talk about the tragedy and the feelings that it invokes, as the collective trauma is far ...
Survivor Kaleb Dahlgren recounted later that the bus had the 18-year-olds up front, 19-year-olds in the middle, and the 20-year-olds in the back. [19] The force of the impact caused both vehicles to come to rest off the highway in the northwest corner, lying on their sides. [12]
Neil Stonechild (August 24, 1973 – November 25, 1990) was a Saulteaux First Nations teenager who died of hypothermia shortly after he was picked up by the Saskatoon Police Service. There were accusations that the police service had taken him to the northwest section of the city and abandoned him in a field on a night when temperatures were ...
David Milgaard (July 7, 1952 – May 15, 2022) was a Canadian man who was wrongfully convicted for the 1969 rape and murder of nursing student Gail Miller in Saskatoon and imprisoned for 23 years. He was eventually released and exonerated. Up until his death, he lived in Alberta and was employed as a community support worker. Milgaard was also ...
Miklos Kanitz – Holocaust survivor; Ryan Keller – former NHL hockey player for the Ottawa Senators; Dave King – university and NHL hockey coach; Ken Kirzinger – actor and stuntman, famous for playing Jason Voorhees in Freddy vs. Jason; Joseph Kotlar (comedian) Darcy Kuemper – goalie for the NHL franchise Washington Capitals
Although he was treated well by the Jewish community in Calgary, there was still a stigma attached to him because he was a Holocaust survivor. [18] After living in Calgary for 10 years, Waisman moved to Saskatoon, where he met his wife, Gloria, and opened a clothing store. [19]