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Sandy Cushon
Sandy Cushon (born in Oxbow, Saskatchewan) is best known as former host of agricultural program ''Country Canada'' on CBC Television CBC Television (also known as CBC TV, or simply CBC) is a Television in Canada, Canadian English-language terrestrial television, broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcasting, p ..., which he hosted between 1975 and 2000. He also hosted ''Points West'' for CBC Winnipeg. References Canadian television hosts Canadian women television hosts Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-tv-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxbow, Saskatchewan
Oxbow is a town in the southeast of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located on the Canadian Pacific Railway and on Highway 18. It is approximately west of Saskatchewan's border with Manitoba and approximately north of the Canada–US border with North Dakota. The town's official motto is "Progress with Pride", but the town's weekly paper, the ''Oxbow Herald'', has long included two other unofficial town mottoes on its masthead: "Queen of the Scenic Souris" (a reference to the Souris River, near which Oxbow is situated) and "Where Oil and Agriculture Meet" (a reference to the town's two major industries). History The first settlers around Oxbow - mainly of English, Irish, and Scottish descent - began homesteading the area under the '' Dominion Lands Act'' in 1882. The town's weekly newspaper, the ''Oxbow Herald'', was founded in 1903. The town was incorporated in 1904. The town was named after the "oxbow" in the Souris River near which the town is situat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
