Historic Places Days Contest chance to win $1,000!

 📸🌿 Could your next photo win $1,000 while helping preserve Saskatchewan's natural and cultural heritage?


 

From July 11–19, 2026, join the Historic Places Days Photo Contest and discover the stories waiting to be told at some of Saskatchewan's most remarkable places.

We're excited that three local historic places are registered and ready to inspire your creativity:

🌲 Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area – A "Forest on the Prairies" honouring the world's first global conservationist, where wetlands, wildlife, towering trees, and the ancient West Swale reveal millions of years of natural history.

🌿 George Genereux Urban Regional Park – A beautiful urban oasis filled with forests, wetlands, birds, wildflowers, and year-round opportunities to connect with nature.

🧭 Sask-cache-one Traditional Cache GC14F – The first geocache ever hidden in Saskatchewan and the second in Canada—a landmark in geocaching history!

🏆 Grand Prize
📷 $1,000 for the winning photographer
🌳 $1,000 for the featured historic site

Plus additional cash prizes, Parks Canada Discovery Passes, National Trust memberships, and Canada's History magazine subscriptions!

How to enter:
✅ Visit a registered historic place.
✅ Capture an original photo.
✅ Tell the story behind your image in the caption.
✅ Post on Facebook or Instagram.
✅ Use #HistoricPlacesDays and #HPDPhotoContest.
✅ Tag @nationaltrustca and the historic place.

Whether your lens captures a soaring hawk, an ancient woodland, a peaceful wetland, a family adventure, or a quiet moment on the trail, your photograph can help tell the story of places worth protecting.

Every photograph helps people discover, appreciate, and care for the places that make our communities unique.

📅 Contest runs July 11–19, 2026

📍 Explore. Photograph. Share the story. Celebrate Saskatchewan's heritage—one image at a time. https://stbarbebaker.wordpress.com/2026/07/05/%f0%9f%93%b8-could-your-photo-win-1000-%f0%9f%8c%bf%f0%9f%8f%86/

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