I meant to think, in the previous entry, about stone at home (where home = the southern Canadian prairie). I'm sure any farmer could tell us where the stone is (although my old friend who farmed just SE of Regina until two years ago claimed there were no stones on his land). Shelley Sopher and her work with tipi rings knows where the stone is. Coteau Books published Legacy in Stone ("Now in Paperback!") last year, a book of stone houses in Saskatchewan--plenty of stone in that book.
In Hillsdale, not so much stone--mainly the small kind you can pick up and huck. Or the broken pavement kind.
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Legacy of Stone didn't have too many buildings from near Regina. The Regina Plains don't have a lot of stones -- when we first moved here we wanted to build a couple of stone-bordered flower beds. Simple task says farm boi me -- we drive out into the country and raid a rock pile. No such luck -- we drove out of town in all directions and saw nary a stonepile. We wound up raiding the hauled-in rock from around a country-road culvert. Well, it was only a half-dozen rocks anyway. That was before we knew about the buffalo jump in the valley north and west of town. The next time we got any rocks around here was when they tore down that gas station that used to be on the northwest corner of Broad and 12th, and we scavanged a couple of carloads of those siding-stones.
I was already interested in your comments before I read "northwest corner of Broad and 12th" which, I´m sorry to say, was before my time. Maybe it´s true that the land around Regina is stone-free.
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