The Saskota Flyway (Highway 9) is known as the International Road to Adventure, because it takes you from Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan, all the way south to Bismarck, North Dakota.

long and passes through Carlyle, Yorkton, Canora, Preeceville, and Hudson Bay.

Highway 9 is also known as the Saskota Flyway Scenic Drive Route[4] or Saskota Flyway[5] while the section between Highway 55 and the Manitoba border is part of the Northern Woods and Water Route.

3 Rural municipality, the highway crosses the Souris River before reaching Alameda, a town which had a population of 308 residents in 2006.

[11] The land in this area was surveyed by 1881 ... A space of sixty- six feet wide between sections was left for a road allowance, every mile running north and south and every two miles running east and west.

Walking ploughs could loosen up earth, then two horse scrapers called fresnos could grade the low places.

These projects could be undertaken by pioneer settlers who wished to work to help pay homestead taxes.

Crawler tractors eventually replaced horse teams to pull larger scrapers and graders.

The route was blazed, trees felled, stumps dynamited, and the cleared area ploughed, in order to prepare it for the construction.

[9] The Qu'Appelle River and Round Lake demark the northern perimeter of Ochapowace Indian Reserve.

[7] Kaposvar Creek is crossed en route to Crescent Lake[7] an unincorporated area of Cana No.

[9] In 1922 a severe flood covered about 50% of the land between Yorkton and Canora taking out road and railway grades.

The Canora road is under water for two miles, and the only mode of transportation to the Reman school is by boat.

[8] A few places sprang up along the rail line between Preeceville and Hudson Bay, according to the 1948 Waghorn's Saskatchewan map.

[8] Quite a few rivers were traversed after Hudson Bay before crossing the Manitoba-Saskatchewan provincial boundary en route to The Pas, Manitoba.