White Bear, Saskatchewan photos

PHOTOS BY KATE WINQUIST

White Bear is a tiny hamlet located in the Rural Municipality of Lacadena No. 228. The community of White Bear’s name comes from the sighting of a probable but now extirpated white prairie grizzly bear by an Assiniboine warrior on the shores of a neighbouring lake during the Palliser Expedition of the 1850s.

During the 1930s, White Bear was a bustling community of approximately 250 residents with two grocery stores, a school, four grain elevators and three garages servicing an area of 200 families, but has since dwindled in population.

The White Bear Hotel remains the only business in operation, noted for its hot wings and hospitality, but unfortunately it was closed the day that I passed through.