Look for an eight-story office block with a striking red granite base and fancy white terra cotta trimming its lower floors and the roofline-if you spot large bison heads flanking the main doorway, you’ve found the Canada Building!
Standing here in front of the Canada Building, you can almost imagine it rising out of the prairie dust back in 1913-right in the middle of a city full of hope and hustle. Picture businessmen in bowler hats, their voices echoing off the polished red granite as they step briskly through those very doors, no doubt watched over by the building’s rather stern-looking bison guardians. The builder behind this eight-story wonder, Allan Bowerman, was a bit of a city super-producer-he was also the mind behind the Bowerman House. Now, take in the terra cotta flourishes near your feet and high above near the rooftop cornice; in their day, they were something to brag about. The Canada Building was Saskatoon’s tallest office block in its prime, flirting with the sky at 35 meters tall. Through harsh winters and roaring booms, it's seen plenty of deals-and, I’d bet, more than a few coffee spills in those long hallways
