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Saskatchewan Highway 20

highway in Saskatchewan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ7425226 ↗
Source-derived summary

Highway 20 is a north–south provincial highway in the southern part of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It runs from Highway 11 in the Qu'Appelle Valley at Lumsden north to Highway 3 near Birch Hills. Along its route, it provides access to several communities, lakes, and parks. The highway is about 291 kilometres (181 mi) long.

Route description

Highway 20 begins at Lumsden and Highway 11 in the Qu'Appelle Valley and follows the Qu'Appelle River north-east to Craven. At Craven, it turns north and follows Last Mountain Creek to Valeport Marsh, the southern end of Last Mountain Lake, and Last Mountain House Provincial Park. Near the park, Highway 20 intersects with Highway 322. Highway 322 heads north-west following the eastern shore of Last Mountain Lake while Highway 20 heads north past Gibbs to Bulyea and the intersection with Highway 220. Highway 220 heads west to Last Mountain Lake and Rowan's Ravine Provincial Park. From Bulyea, Highway 20 heads north-northwest to Strasbourg and Duval.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Saskatchewan Highway 20” is highway in Saskatchewan. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Saskatchewan, Highway and highway, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 163-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Saskatchewan, Highway and highway is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7425226. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Saskatchewan Highway 20” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.