Tisdale travel guide

Tisdale is a business centre for the rich agricultural area of northeastern Saskatchewan in Canada. The post office of Tisdale, provisional district of Saskatchewan, North West Territories was created 1904-02-01. However, Tisdale is now a town in the rural municipality of Tisdale No. 427, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
Located at the junction of Highway 35 and Highway 3, and serviced by both the Canadian National Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway, Tisdale is the grain handling centre of the region with five inland grain terminals, and is the centre of local industry. The intersection of Highways #3 and #35 has traffic volumes of 11,200 vehicles per day and is the location of the largest 7-Eleven in Canada (by floor space). Also found at this corner is the roadside attraction of "The World's Largest Honey Bee".
Tisdale's Recreational Centre the Tisdale RecPlex, hold Cumberland Regional College, Tisdale Middle and Secondary School, a 6 lane curling rink, state of the art artificial ice arena, as well as the John Baron Auditorium and Morris Taylor Performing Arts Theatre.
The Tisdale Skating Club(TSC)is very successful and has turned out many national and provincial skaters over the past years. They also hosted the 2006 Starskate Provincial Championships.
The Community was originally known as "Doghide" after the Doghide River that flows through the town, but with the arrival of the railway the community was renamed "Tisdale" in honour of F.W. Tisdale, an employee of the CN Railway. Western Canada’s biggest gun shoot out took place just east of Tisdale. The historic gunfight involved a posse of Provincial Police and four outlaws and original artifacts are on display at the Tisdale Museum. (...) more....