[2] Large areas of native grasslands and shrubs can still be found in the Beaver Hills region, and along the Whitesand River.
[4] Early colonization of the hills included a colony of three to four hundred Dakotans at Sheho, Saskatchewan.
Disappointment at the lack of the promised transcontinental rail line caused these numbers to dwindle to just a few[5] by the late 1800s.
A large boulder with a carved face petroglyph was found on December 25, 1905 by Charles Noddings from the Beaver Hills area, and was the stimulus for the creation of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in 1906.
[11] Bernard Leo Korchinski, Liberal member for the provincial riding of Redberry from 1948–1952 and 1956–1960, was born in the Beaver Hills in 1905.