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With the construction of railroads across the prairies in the late 1800s, and to The Pas in 1908, the era of large-scale steamboat transportation drew to a close. Paddlewheelers did continue to ply the lower Saskatchewan River for the next 40 years however, as workhorses barging logs and ore during the industrialization of the region.

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The end of the steamboat era on the Saskatchewan River marked the close of a significant chapter in Canada's history - the era when our lakes and rivers were the highways that opened the wilderness and defined a young country.