Editing Fort Qu'Appelle (section)

== Historic and current medical facilities ==
[[File:Fort San, 1920s.jpg|left|thumb|Fort San, 1920s with view of the Fort]]
[[File:FtQu'AppelleBldg.JPG|thumb|Former Indian Hospital, Fort Qu'Appelle]]
[[Maurice Macdonald Seymour]], Commissioner of Public Health, was a [[physician]] and [[surgeon]] of the early [[Territorial evolution of Canada|North-West Territories]] in Canada.{{ref label|Winnipeg|B|B}} He founded the Saskatchewan Anti-Tuberculosis League which incorporated and constructed the Fort Qu'Appelle sanitarium.<ref name="PP">{{Cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cansk/P-PP-SK/113.html|title=Pioneers and Prominent People of Saskatchewan – SGW transcription project|work=SEYMOUR: Maurice MacDonald, M.D.|author=CANADIAN PUBLICITY.CO Publishers|publisher= Adamson, Julia E|date=25 July 2005|access-date=21 March 2009}} 
</ref><ref name="SKPeople">{{Cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cansk/SaskatchewanAndItsPeople/VolumeIII/SeymourMauriceMacdonald.html|title=Saskatchewan Gen Web Project – Saskatchewan and Its People by John Hawkes Vol III 1924|work=Maurice MacDonald Seymour, M.D., C.M., D.P.H. Fellow Royal Institute Public Health, England Fellow American Public Health Association|author=CANADIAN PUBLICITY.CO Publishers|publisher= Adamson, Julia E|date=6 January 2003|access-date=21 March 2009}}</ref><ref name="MHS">{{cite web
| url         = http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/seymour_mm.shtml
| title       = Maurice Macdonald Seymour (1857-?) 
| access-date  =22 March 2009
| date        = 2002–2009 
| publisher   = Manitoba Historical Society
}}</ref> This [[tuberculosis]] sanatorium was operated by the provincial department of public health under the direction of [[R.G. Ferguson]] and opened in 1917 at nearby [[Fort San, Saskatchewan|Fort San]];<ref name="McLennon"/> when tuberculosis ceased to be a public health problem the facility was turned into a fine arts complex where a substantial summer program was operated 1967-91 when the provincial government terminated its funding: latterly it has become a resort village housing the Echo Valley Conference Centre. In addition to the ample summer lake cottages—in later years many occupied throughout the year—and the successive uses of the former Fort San tuberculosis, for many years the Regina [[YMCA]] operated a summer camp on the north shore of Echo Lake just west of Fort San; the Anglican Church continues to maintain a similar summer camp on the south shore of Mission Lake the other, east side of the town.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://campharding.ca// |title=campharding.ca |access-date=8 January 2012}}{{title missing|date=May 2022}}{{dead link|date=September 2023}}</ref>

The former [[Indian hospital|Fort Qu'Appelle Indian Hospital]] was replaced in 2004 by the All Nations Healing Hospital.  The hospital is one of the first health care facilities in Canada owned and operated by First Nations governments. There are sixteen in total, five from Touchwood Agency Tribal Council and eleven from File Hills Qu'Appelle Tribal Council. The surrounding area both north and south but also to minor extent within the valley is site of grain and cattle farms, nowadays larger in size and smaller in number and population than in past years, small rural communities and sixteen [[Indian reserve]]s.