#Nakamo Info Gushes

[nakamopapina]

Is it normal that when you’re wanting research something specific, in the history of a specific Province/Territory, and you can’t find anything, so you resort to looking into Government archives? 

Because I have been doing that for the past several days, just looking for the capital of the District of Alberta, during the 1880s, all I have are official maps from the 1880s, and 1890s, implying that Calgary was the district’s capital, but other than those maps, (and a map implying that Edmonton and Calgary, both were Alberta’s capital in the late 1890s. Approaching the end of that decade) there’s nothing. and I’m legit resorting to looking through Alberta’s Provincial archives, just to find a little bit of information and have found nothing yet.

I have been looking into it since I stumbled onto those maps.

A little rant below...

But there’s some information about Prince Albert’s history as the capital of the district of Saskatchewan, as Prince Albert has that information public, (It’s a lot compared to Alberta’s capital when it was a district, which is nothing so far) so this means one of several things:

1. Calgary WAS the capital of the District of Alberta, and somebody just lost the papers saying that.

2. A different city was the capital, and somebody lost the papers.

3. Someone messed up while making those maps. (because that does happen from time to time) and marked both Calgary and Edmonton as capitals on that one map.

or

 4. There was no District capital for Alberta then, just like it’s implied for the other two Districts, Assiniboia, and Athabasca, and Prince Albert was like given special privileges, or something?

[nakamopapina]

I’m gathering stuff for my other blog in advance, and learned two things, that I MUST share:

1) The origin of Moose Jaw’s name was because 'moscâ-' in ‘moscâstani-sîpiy ‘, sounded a lot like ‘Moose Jaw’,

moscâstani-sîpiy is Cree for ‘A warm place by the River’!

and 

2) Regina’s Original name, was considered ‘too scandalous’, to be used as a name for a Territorial Capital. 

Which I can understand because the original name was ‘Pile of Bones’, which came from the Cree word  ‘oskana ka-asastēki’, and it means ‘The place where bones are piled up’. So... uh yeah, probably not the best choice for the name of a Territorial Capital... 

But we still named our lake Wascana, which means, ‘Buffalo Bones’! So there’s that!

The more you know!