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Posted: Dec 19, 2020 6:00 AM CT | Last Updated: December 19, 2020 This propeller driven surface machine, better known as the Lorch Snow Plane, was patented in 1935 by Karl Lorch in Spy Hill, Sask. It sits on display at the Moose Jaw branch of the Western Development Museum. (Western Development Museum)

Bitter cold, sweltering sun and winds strong enough to tear through sturdy brick churches — the climate here demands invention. A lengthy research project from the Western Development Museum (WDM) documents part of the province’s history with patents and their inventors’ gadgets. At almost 600 pages and comprising more than 3,200 patents, it serves as a kind of tinkerer-toiling snapshot of how people made a go of it on the Prairies. Called Made in Saskatchewan: A Story of Invention, th...

Dubyk had written down the numbers of local authorities after his father died, but he couldnt bring himself to call, to say he planned to burn down the century-old grain elevator outside his familys little blue farm house that three generations of his family had shared near Rosetown. Dubyk wanted to conserve and restore the building, but high costs and roadblocks made that impossible. Saying goodbye by setting the tower ablaze was the last thing he wanted to do, but eventually he realized the...

Prairie necessity: Patent index documents history of Sask. invention A research project from the Western Development Museum documents part of the province’s history with patents and their inventors’ gadgets. Author of the article: Evan Radford Publishing date: Dec 17, 2020  •  December 24, 2020  •  4 minute read  •  This propeller driven surface machine, better known as the Lorch Snow Plane was patented by Karl Lorch in Spy Hill, Sask. in 1935. It sits on display at the ...