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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
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).
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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.