Arbor Week 2025 Events

Arbor Week Film Night

This year's film night is May 29th, 7:00 pm hosted by and at Outter Limits, 630 Broadway Ave. Doors open at 6:30, Film at 7:00. This year's film is Borealis (1.5 hours) about Canada's forests and the relationships that people have with them as well as the natural processes. Door prizes and snacks will be provided. Pick up your 2025 Tree Tour booklet and DED refrigerator magnet. Please RSVP to Outter limits 306-374-1663 or email trees@sostrees.ca The public is welcome.

Arbor Week Community Tree Planting

Friday May 30th at 9 am (alternate date in case of rain June 2nd) - Come out and help plant a naturalized tree and shrub forest at Pierre Radisson Park, 31st street West & McMillan Ave. You can join students from École Henry Kelsey School and the Outdoor School along with SOS Trees members and other volunteers. There will be time to ask tree related questions and to have fun meeting others who want to help green Saskatoon through community work. If you have a shovel, gloves, wheelbarrow or small pails for watering bring them along. We will also have some of these supplies available to use. Please RSVP to trees@sostrees.ca if you can join us.

Arbor Week Tree Planting

History of Arbor Day in Saskatchewan

Arbor Day 1920, Garden Prairie School, Saskatchewan

For many years within the province an annual spring observance occurred that involved most schools, many community groups and municipalities, and concerned individuals. The day was marked with the planting of trees, the cleaning up of yards, streets and alleys, choosing and protecting a particular area of natural habitat and generally celebrating our dependence upon nature and specifically trees.

Thanks to the efforts of the Yellowhead Flyway Birding Trail Association (YFBTA), the Government of Saskatchewan officially proclaimed Arbor Week dates in 2020. SOS Trees Coalition lobbied to secure Saskatoon's and Saskatchewan's proclamations in subsequent years.

Arbor Day Origins

Arbor Day was recognized as early as April 10, 1872. On that day, American journalist and politician J. Sterling Morton founded Arbor Day as a means of promoting conservation and correcting the gradual deforestation of the prairie. In his words, what sets Arbor Day apart from other holidays is that while other special days commemorate the past, Arbor Day celebrates the future. Read more about Arbor Day's origins here.

ARBOR WEEK EXPERIENCES 2024

Homegrown Resilience through tree planting, educating and ensuring inclusive access to nature was our theme and focus for the 2024 Arbor Week events.