| Cannington Manor Provincial Park | |
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 All Saints Anglican Church | |
  Map of Saskatchewan, Canada  Cannington Manor Provincial Park (Canada) | |
| Location | Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Nearest city | Carlyle |
| Coordinates | 49°44′00″N 102°02′45″W / 49.7333°N 102.0458°W |
| Established | 1986 |
| Governing body | Saskatchewan Provincial Parks |
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Cannington Manor Provincial Park is an historic park in the RM of Moose Mountain in the south-east corner of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. An aristocratic English colony was established at the site in 1882 by Captain Edward Michell Pierce. It became a provincial park in 1986.[1] Cannington Manor is located west and north of Highway 603.[2] The Colony is 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) south-east of Moose Mountain Provincial Park, and 60 kilometres (37 mi) south of Moosomin.[3]
Captain Pierce established an agricultural college and attracted remittance men as students for £100 a year. The intention of the college was to instruct these bachelor sons of wealthy families to farm and homestead in the last best west. The brothers Ernest, Billy, and Bertie Beckton constructed "Didsbury", ranch house within Cannington Manor colony.[4]
The cultural and recreational life emulated English upper class society. Thoroughbred racing, polo matches, theatrical plays, fox hunting, billiards, soccer, and tennis were all enjoyed by the colony students and settlers. This was a contrast to the neighbouring homesteaders who were barely eking out a living proving their land and making improvements to earn land title grants from the Dominion Government.[5]
Soon a dairy, a school / town hall, blacksmith, Moose Mountain trading company store, Harold Fripp flour mill, C.E. Phipps Land Titles Office, carpenter shop, and Mitre hotel were built to support a burgeoning community which soon reached 200 residents.[6]
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- ^ "Provincial Parks". The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan. University of Regina. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
- ^ "Virtual Saskatchewan - Cannington Manor historical park Prairie Gentry". Retrieved 3 November 2007.
- ^ McCracken, Jane (2007). "Cannington Manor". Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Foundation of Canada. Archived from the original on 19 May 2005. Retrieved 27 October 2007.
- ^ "Cannington Manor". Cannington Manor - Site Brochure. Government of Saskatchewan. 2007. Retrieved 27 October 2007.