Cypress Hills (Canada)

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Cypress Hills ( " cypress hill ") is a hill region in the southern part of the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta. It contains the highest with 1468 m elevation on the prairie province of Saskatchewan. The region was named after the occurrence of the Jack Pine, a North American pine species, which is cyprès ( " Cypress " ) called in French Canadian traditional.

The Cypress Hills have been designated as Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park as a cross-border provincial park of the two provinces. The site has been designated at the scale of 396 km ² as a Dark Sky Preserve ( light protected area, Cypress Hills Dark Sky Preserve ) 2005. This also includes the Fort Walsh National Historic Site. The region is also the Elkwater, a lake and camping area in Alberta.

In the Cypress Hills was 1873 the Cypress Hills Massacre, in which more than 20 Nakoda were murdered by a group of adventurers, whiskey dealers and their Métis straps.