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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, the patents index covers 1905 to 1979, listing a patent holder’s name, location, object name and pat...