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Old 08-25-2014, 09:55 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction View Post
And yet I had a friend who came down from England and she called them Saskatoon berries, so the word did spread pretty far (I have only ever heard them called Saskatoon berries myself).
Often natives - but not all natives - as well as the Voyageurs called them Saskatoons. Lewis and Clark, however, were the first westerners speaking English that first described the berries to science. They called them Serviceberries.
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