During your incredible stay at Cedar Lodge, be ready to purchase items to bring back to your family and friends as souvenirs and gifts. In addition to great value, you will be uplifted in the knowledge that your shopping has contributed to help someone less fortunate than you.

Even the smallest purchase becomes part of the bigger picture.

Novelty items range from as low as 50 cents. Chips, gum, snacks, drinks available, toiletry items.

Higher end items include dinner rings, as well as engagement rings, men’s and ladies wedding bands, with quality diamonds. Novelty and quality watches … you will enjoy your purchases for years to come. Spend up to $2,000.00. Cost to you, less than wholesale.
Excellent value - great savings to you!

COMING SOON!! - Shopping online via paypal as well as visa or mastercard - shipping choices will be provided.

THANK YOU FOR BEING PART OF OUR COMMUNITY SUPPORT TEAM !!

Supporting the work of our volunteers is greatly appreciated … our personal contributions within the community and in particular in the assistance of those without finances who are desiring to change their lives from a path of drug addiction, alcoholism, gambling and various forms of codependency is ongoing with an ever increasing demand for services. Sadly, we turn away several people every day due to either the inability to finance their stay or because we have a “full house” much of the time. We need everyone to work together to see that no-one is denied the help they need.

Our Gift Shop is just one more way for you to support our community services. Since 95% of our staff are volunteers, profits are more widely available to help moms in crisis, trips for drug and alcohol recovery clients to doctors, counselling, employment opportunities and for a greater contribution to the community at large.

You may call our general line for more information if you wish to inquire about our unique and excellent array of jewellery that you will be delighted to wear for yourself or to share with others.
Call 306-492-4999 today.
Ask for Nanette, our Gift Shop Hostess.

Again, We Genuinely Thank You for your Support!
We can’t do any of this without you!
Become an integral part of our Team!

SOUVENIR ITEMS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE by phone.

Cedar Lodge Coffee Mugs $10.00
Cedar Lodge Aprons $10.00
Cedar Lodge Singers CD $ 8.00 (8 songs)

Remembrance of a Path Well Lit, a Book written in 1994 by our Administrator,
Saskatchewan Order of Merit Recipient, Suzanne Claire Olaski. $20.00
Over 5,000 copies sold!

M. Scott Peck… (The Road Less Travelled)… writes of Suzanne’s Book.

‘As a non-denominational Christian myself I thought your theology was remarkably accurate and solid.”

“Your chapter ‘Touching the Feet of Jesus’ is a gem … it strikes an extraordinary balance between arrogance and humility and between consciousness and a healthy kind of ‘unself-consciousness’ … exquisitely balanced.”

M. Scott Peck is a world renown Author of many books. The Road Less Travelled is one of the most influential books of modern times, which remained for 10 years on the New York Times Best Sellers List (other works include In Search of Stones, A World Waiting to be Born, People of the Lie.)

Be prepared to see more information on this site as we upgrade to keep you posted regarding seasons, costs, varieties of birds and animals, migration patterns and more to enable you to have a most successful shoot.

With OVER FORTY PERCENT of North America’s duck population hatched in the wetlands of Saskatchewan, this is where it all begins!!

And Cedar Lodge is one of the most excellent spots to land for your hunting experience. The Lodge has the perfect atmosphere for your home away from home attitude. Home cooking, down home hospitality no matter where you hail from. Fireside corner, magnificent decks overlooking the lake and the skies where you can watch the geese fly in for miles. If geese are not your speciality, the deer meander over our 75 acres in the hundreds and moose very much in the vicinity.

We can make arrangements for your special guide to take you on a most unique experience, one worth remembering for years to come. We hear over and over again, “we will be back” and there is no doubt you will feel the same. Call ahead for bookings as our seasons fill up very quickly.

Migration Maps -
See why Saskatchewan Leads the Way In Opportunity
for your best duck hunting ever.

http://www.ducks.ca/resource/general/wetland/migration/maps.html
http://www.ducks.ca/resource/general/wetland/migration/pdf/central.pdf

I don’t think there is any other retreat locale (and I have been to a number of them) quite like this one. Cedar Lodge is a wonderfully rustic complex that overlooks scenic Blackstrap Lake and its beautiful surrounding woodlands.

The rooms are well appointed and very clean; all of the normal amenities are provided. What is really striking about the place, however, are the staff and the menu. There is an ease and natural friendliness in the manner of the staff, who make every effort to meet one’s needs, including providing specially requested meals, meals at odd times of the day, and snacks (home-made cookies or muffins, for example) at mid-morning and mid-afternoon.

The food tastes as if it were cooked by your mother (or father!) and there is much variety in the meals (and snacks) served from day to day. It is no exaggeration for me to say that I haven’t had Yorkshire pudding (the real thing!) like that in years!

The retreat meeting space was a spacious room with large windows overlooking Blackstrap Lake. We all found ourselves staring out those windows from time to time throughout the weekend and this brought a contemplative and peaceful atmosphere to our work, which turned out to be of a very high quality.

I cannot thank the staff enough for all of their efforts to make our weekend a success. They are truly wonderful people who treat their visitors as friends, putting them at ease from the start and making their stay a memorable one.

My warmest regards to all the staff at Cedar Lodge.

Cheers
DCS

Don Story
Chair, Governance Committee
Board of Directors
Saskatchewan Soccer Association

Thank you again!

Sandra Janzen, Legal Assistant
MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman
Law Office, Saskatoon
Sept 2007

Reg and Geeta Regunath, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

And this place is a lighthouse.

Anne and Dave Rennick, Carleton Place, Ontario

I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking care of my dad.

He had nothing but good things to say about you and your kindness.

You supported him unconditionally and I truly believe that if he were still here, he would continue on his road to recovery with your helping hand.

I had faith in him to fight his demons and win, if he had more time on this earth, he would have.

Thank You

Sandra McLeod
Vancouver B.C.

Ross McLeod passed from this life
on August 28, 2007 in Medicine Hat Alberta
He was 42
He will be missed by many

Since opening its doors in 1997, Cedar Lodge has been host to more than three thousand events of the greatest variety including conventions, seminars, weddings, banquets, baptisms, family reunions, government
retreats, health and wellness sessions and so much more. Our business continued to grow steadily with no advertising. Word of mouth of the excellence of service and cuisine has brought us bookings years in advance.

Hosting both national and international events Cedar Lodge has given us the privilege of catering to people from 23 countries, WISSA being just one of those events.

Some of the Rave Reviews from WISSA looked like this:

“I have traveled all over the world and have found nothing to compare to the hospitality, the food and the service at Cedar Lodge.”

“I wish we had something like this in OUR province.”

“I came here stressed out and fed up! You have cheered my heart and made me able to face life again.”

“I came here skinny and I go home fat … but happy.”

“We WILL be back!”

“… A little piece of heaven.”

A lady visiting from EUROPE during WISSA wrote to us on her return:
“If there is a heaven on earth, then Cedar Lodge has got to be it!”

Leon Thunderchild, Thunderchild First Nation

Here are some comments from one such retreat.

Thank you all for everything, your meals were all so wonderful and creative. And you made me feel very welcome and comfortable.

A million thanks to the Cedar Lodge staff and all the wonderful things you provided for us. I truly appreciated all the good things.

I have truly been blessed with your gracious hospitality once again. Thank You.

Thank you for your hospitality. We have felt very special and appreciate all your efforts for us! This is a very special place - and people!

Thank you for sharing your gifts God has given you. You all do it with so much care and love - we carry these gifts to others. God Bless you all and your families.

Thank you for everything and helping me find myself.

Thank you for taking such good care of all our needs and making our stay a wonderful experience. God Bless you all. Thank you.

Thanks for all the excellent meals and hospitality. Thanks for taking care of us - we really felt the love.

Thank you everyone for being who you are. Till again …

AND WHAT A DECADE IT HAS BEEN !!

We have provided hospitality, service and fabulous cuisine for thousands of events, some national, some international. We have provided spectacular surroundings for weddings, wedding receptions, seminars, conferences, family reunions, high school reunions, government workshops, retreats, respite and a whole host of various adventures.

Additionally, we have served hundreds of thousands over the past more than 10 years with our food distribution program. We have served hundreds in drug and alcohol recovery inasmuch as we are a long term residential treatment facility when we are not otherwise fully booked. Individuals have come from as far west as Victoria, B.C. and from as far east as Prince Edward Island for treatment.

Our amazing staff (all volunteers) provide the warmest hospitality and service bar none. And our kitchen staff!! They are unbelievable - home cooked meals that people come back for time and time again.

We have faithful customers who book their events with us year after year and we have bookings into the year 2011. One such customer recently remarked after hosting two events every year since 1997 (our first year) - “… in ten years, you have not shirked in any area, you are just as friendly, just as efficient and the meals have not waivered, not one bit.”

We want to thank our incredible suppliers, sponsors, donors and supporters, without whom these countless individuals would not have been served with our best efforts, services and supplies.

Here are just a few of those - we are sure we will leave out some if not many.
Please forgive us if we do and email us to include you in our list.

Yellowhead Pizzas and Subs, Sobey’s (Safeway), London Drugs, Great Canadian Bagel, Great Canadian Superstore, Martin’s Produce, Star Produce, Star Egg, Family Pizza, Saskatoon Family Network Inc. to name a few.

Our volunteers - Sandra Howarth, Linda Laird, Lee Hilton, Keith Hills, Sonia Hazen, Al and Audry Wersch, Rob and Georgia Van Doornum, Jonathan Wiebe, Richard Perras, Sandie McDade, Sheldon and Lisa Dyck, Casey Stokman, Helen Kvale, Dave and Lori Washington, Colleen Troesch, Doris and Joe Rubio, Caitlyn Cassidy.

THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS, MANY OF WHOM COME OUT AND WORK WITH US SIDE BY SIDE WHILE WE CONTINUE TO SERVE OUR COMMUNITY, OUR PROVINCE AND OUR NATION.

GOD BLESS YOU ALL!