Collecting in Western Canada

Souris Manitoba, just out of Brandon, on the Trans Canada has a pit, $10.00 to pick 25 #. Lots of jasper, pet wood, agate. www.sourisrockshop.com. I stopped in there this spring, and have the first batch of small ones in the tumbler, lots of fist and larger, but haven't cut into them yet. Supposed to have moss, and Dakota like agates, but that remains to be seen. I live in central Saskatchewan, not much for rock here other than gravel pits, and that is mostly granite, and dolomite. Lots of mining north of La Ronge, (quite a ways off the Trans Canada but worth the drive), There the Canadian Shield outcrops; Gold, Diamonds, Nickel, Uranium, Iron. Saskatchewan is more than what you see on the #1. If I may suggest, to Calgary, gravel in the Bow river gives up a few keepers, and if you are a fly fisherman, some of the best brown trout fishing on the planet, (even downtown). Then through Drumheller , Royal Tyrell Museum of Paleontology, for the small boy in all of us, badlands, and fossils. Then over to Saskatoon, the most beautiful city on earth. North to La Ronge, They say you could go to a different lake every day, and never see half in your lifetime, plenty of places, where only God would know you were there. If you are going to end up in Saskatoon, let me know.