Saskatoon is a commercial, cultural, and educational centre located on Treaty Six Territory and the Traditional Homeland of the Métis in the province of Saskatchewan. European settlement began in the 1880s, but Indigenous people have been living in and travelling through the Saskatoon area for thousands of years.

Saskatoon lies along a bend in the South Saskatchewan River in the moist, mixed prairie ecoregion, 346 kilometres north of the Canada US border, 224 km from Alberta and 344 km from Manitoba. It is central Saskatchewan’s great crossroads—a hub for water, rail, and highway crossings east and west, north, and south.

Saskatoon is Saskatchewan’s largest city, with a population of over 300,000 people, a diverse economy and high quality of life. Driven by strong international immigration, a rising Indigenous population, and significant rural to urban migration, the city is expected to reach half a million people in the next 30 years.