The Western Canadian berry known as the saskatoon derives its name from the Cree misaskwatomin. In turn, this Cree name is made up of misaskwat, the name of the bush that produces the berry, and min, meaning berry. Further back, misaskwat derives from misa skwat, meaning that which is solid wood, so called because the saskatoon bush is thick with branches, and the branches themselves are hard and dense. Roughly translated, therefore, saskatoon means the berry from the bush whose many branches are solid wood. In 1882, the berry’s name was borrowed by John H. Lake when he founded the city of Saskatoon as a temperance colony for teetotalling Methodists from Ontario. The province in which Saskatoon is located, Saskatchewan, takes its similar-sounding name from an entirely different Cree source: Saskatchewan derives from kisiskatchewani sipi, meaning rapid-flowing river.