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Kerosene Lantern Headlights
Circa. 1908
Lanigan, Saskatchewan

Credits:
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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The phenomenal growth of Lanigan town created major problems with the grading and gravelling of streets. They didn't have access to gravel, but daily the CPR were moving cars of gravel from their pit near Plunkett to their track east of Jansen. The Town approached an official of the railway asking if they might buy gravel to top one block of Main Street. The official replied, "The CPR do not sell gravel," but, he added, "Loaded gravel cars sometimes go out of order and we have to sidetrack them, if you see a car of gravel on the house track at the end of your main street you will oblige us by unloading it as quickly as you can." The following afternoon, three cars of gravel were on the house track. Eleven teams and wagons, men with shovels and lanterns went to work and by 4:am, the gravel was on the streets of Lanigan.

As Lanigan developed with people, automobiles and industry, the need for roads was evident. These were laid out in the process of surveying. We find roads every mile running north and south and every 2 miles east and west. Some were only trails while others were graded with ditches on both side and low spots provided with wooden bridges or filled in with dirt to a higher elevation. The first roads were crude, made with horse drawn graders dragging dirt from the sides of the road allowance into the middle. Gravel roads were not yet to be, so when it rained, it made travel quite an adventure. Trees along the road allowance made it impossible to get through the snowdrifts in the winter. A trail across the field was common, reminding us of the Old Carlton Trail.

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Highway 20 in Progress
3 September 1930
Lanigan, Saskatchewan

Credits:
Evelyn Gunther
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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Road Building
1940-1950
Rural Lanigan

Credits:
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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Road Grader - Early Days
1920-1930
R.M. of Prairie Rose, Saskatchewan

Credits:
R.M. of Prarie Rose #309
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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Terex resting for the winter
Circa. 2006
Lanigan, Saskatchewan

Credits:
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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Alfred Greve writes:
2007
Lanigan, Saskatchewan

Credits:
Alfred Greve
Gordon Greve

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Alfred Greve writes: " There were four garages that were open. We had a lot of traffic through town here. A farmer could come to Lanigan and buy parts for pretty near any piece of machinery, because all the dealers were here. People didn't travel with their horse and buggies very far. It wasn't until the late forties or fifties that the roads started getting better, and you could travel distances. Once a year you went to the city.
I always drove Dad's car, a 1917 Buick. From then on there was always a car at home. Then he had a 1937 Dodge, in the 40''s a Chev. We had a new car every four or five years, but the old gravel and washboard highway shook them apart pretty quick. You get on a road now, it gets pretty rough but not as rough as they were then. They didn't have the graders and stuff that they do now. After the first snowstorm you couldn't drive it. Roads were so low and there were bushes at each side, they filled up with snow. Then the horse and sleigh came out. Now you can drive anywhere at anytime of the year. You can drive to Saskatoon as quick as you could haul a load of wheat and go back with the horses. Things have speeded up."

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Lanigan Garage
1900-1960
Lanigan, Saskatchewan

Credits:
Irene Hodges
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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B-A Service Centre
1930-1950
Lanigan, Saskatchewan

Credits:
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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Highway 16 Business
Circa. 1973
Lanigan, Saskatchewan

Credits:
Sadie Forsyth
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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Driving through a Snow Tunnel
1940-1950
Rural Lanigan

Credits:
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.

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The country road was upgraded over the years and spread with gravel, thus becoming all weather roads that were used year round. Lanigan had its first highway with Number 14, built in 1926. This highway came in on the south side of town along Railway Avenue. In later years this was rebuilt and rerouted to the north side of the main part of town, and again rerouted to Railway Avenue becoming The Yellowhead. Some of the more main access arteries and grid roads were built to higher standards and some were paved to connect to a nearby highway. Two main highways, Number 16, the Yellowhead and Number 20, serve Lanigan and district. The Yellowhead begins in Winnipeg and travels through Lanigan on a northern route to Prince Rupert. Number 20 Highway takes us south to Regina and North to Prince Albert. This route is not the quality of surface, but our province has a problem of too many miles of highway for a limited number of taxpayers.

From the days of the Explorer, the birch bark canoe and the Red River Cart, we have come a long ways.

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# 14 Highway
Circa. 1926
Lanigan, Saskatchewan

Credits:
Lanigan and District Heritage Assoc.