Day 11
Big thunder storm last night but cleared up by the time we pulled out; we arrived in Humboldt SK to sunny skies.
Went to the museum and after a few hours we found the current location of Burr SK ( about 20 km south of Humboldt on Hwy 20, on the old railway line, where the first grain elevator was built). Today Burr has three houses, an old hotel, a post office and a municipal office. We also found the location of the homestead of John Cleever Burr, the founder of Burr and the original post master. The first post office was at his homestead - when we figured out that Burr had two locations it all made a lot more sense. It was a map in the museum from 1914 that solved the puzzle. Then we drove to both those places. We have lots of pictures, more than posted here. We had problems getting to the original homestead - at least two roads are flooded out; but we went around the long ways and got there.
This the furthest west we have ever driven in Canada....
P.S. forgot to tell you who J.C. Burr was: He was my grandfather's older half-brother (different mothers).
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