Saskatoon has all the urban amenities without the big-city hassles. Traffic jams are small. Most of the residents own their own homes. For more information, click on the following links:

• Tourism Saskatoon
• Tourism Saskatchewan

• Good symphony orchestra
  
• First rate jazz festival, live jazz weekly at several sites, plus an active jazz club.
  
• Opportunity for musical expression at every level, with every instrument or type of singing including German and Ukrainian classics, jazz choral club, etc.
  
• More good drama per capita than anywhere else in Canada with four professional companies plus a large fringe festival.
  
• The U of S Ballroom Dancing Club is Canada’s largest and most active.
  
• We have a full spectrum of restaurants from family to fine French dining, with some excellent ethnic restaurants.

• Active and successful university sports programs
  
• Junior A hockey
  
• Extreme trick snowboarding/skateboarding competitions in August
  
• Very active flat-water kayaking, rowing and canoe clubs
  
• Sailing on huge nearby Lake Diefenbaker
  
• World’s best lake trout fishing on Lake Diefenbaker
  
• A well maintained cross country ski training track with classic and skating tracks in the centre of the city and close to superb cross country trails.
  
• A bird watcher’s paradise — we’re on the flyway for thousands of migrating birds and home to thousands more. Redberry Lake, which was recently given special environmental status by the United Nations, is a nearby saltwater lake that is the nesting ground for huge American Pelicans and many other species.
  The Meewasin Trail is a beautiful 58 km paved walking, running, cycling, roller-blading path along both sides of the river which runs through the city.

• Safe streets
  
• Good schools
  
• Montessori, public, various religious schools, and a very active home schooling association
  
• A great Children’s Festival in June
  
• Wonderful parks with wading pools and playground equipment
  
• Park with miniature train rides, merry-go-round, small ferris wheel open all summer
  
• Downhill skiing at nearby Table “mountain”