July 14, 2025 - Winnipeg to Moose Jaw

Leaving Winnipeg at 6 am was, as we discovered, not necessary in order to arrive in Moose Jaw for 2 pm. It was a 6 hour drive not including stops for gas and coffee, but I had totally not remembered to account for the time difference that Manitoba has with Saskatchewan in the summer. Oh well, I am not a geography teacher anymore and glad of it. We arrived in Moose Jaw at around 12:30! I had booked all three Tunnels of Moose Jaw tours starting at 3 pm so we had about 2 hours to kill. We ate my pasta salad in the parking lot of Superstore and made several trips to various stores to buy what we had forgotten to pack and still had time. I had planned to take all kinds of photos and videos on the tunnels tour but, alas, it was forbidden. I can only divulge the information that is contained on the website. The Chicago Connection tour was all about the era of prohibition and Al Capone. It is a dramatized tour where we are treated as if we want to be bootleggers. The Passage to Fortune tour was in the era Chinese immigration to Canada and how they they lived and worked in the tunnels in laundries. The third tour was Bunker 24 about Moose Jaw and Canada in WWII and the Cold War. In this tour we were treated like new recruits to fight communism. All the tours were excellent! I learned a lot more about these eras and how life was for regular Canadians as well as immigrants. We then checked into our hotel and has the bar/restaurant to ourselves. The hotel was excellent.