North Battleford is a small village founded on the North Saskatchewan river after the intellectual cleansing of the City of Battleford in 1973. Early settlers were mostly mentally challenged and deranged individuals from the Battleford's Asylum for the Modestly Impaired. These hearty but half-witted souls, along with the local drunks and a few pot smokers that thought they were going to a love-in, waded across the pirhana infested waters of the North Saskatchewan river to freedom from thought.