Moose Jaw, Regina, Winnipeg and Gimli
The necklace clasp broke on a family afternoon at the Crescent Park playground and spray park
Crescent Park sits one block east of Main Street North in downtown Moose Jaw, with a playground, a spray park, wide trails and open spaces.
A necklace lost in Crescent Park can be searched for, and the size of the park matters less than your memory of the afternoon. Each stop you can mark, from the playground to the spray park to the walk back to the car, cuts down the ground, and so does knowing whether the pendant came away on its own or with the chain.
Ring Seekers is a lost ring and jewellery recovery service that connects people who lost a ring, wedding band, watch, keys or phone in Moose Jaw, Regina or Winnipeg with a metal detectorist who can search there.
Tell us what happened and where. We find a detectorist who can reach the park, the yard or the beach, brief them with your map and photos, and tell you honestly if the odds are poor.
Beyond Crescent Park, this page covers Wakamow Valley in Moose Jaw, Regina's parks and backyards, Winnipeg's city parks such as Kildonan and St. Vital, and the Lake Winnipeg beaches at Gimli, Winnipeg Beach and Grand Beach.
Thinking about metal detector hire? Save it for your own backyard, where you know the few square metres that matter. For a playground, a soccer field or the Gimli sand, ask us instead.
Pockets, hoods and the stroller basket
Before you go back to the park, look where a necklace can end up without anyone noticing: inside a collar or a hood, in the stroller basket, down the side of a car seat, in a child's pocket. If the chain is still round your neck and only the pendant is gone, tell us, because the detectorist is then looking for something smaller.
Then map the afternoon, one pin per stop, with a note on which came first. In Crescent Park that could be the playground, the spray park, the grass by the Serpentine and the path to where you parked.
Places we cover in Moose Jaw, Regina and Winnipeg
- Moose Jaw: Crescent Park and the Serpentine
- Wakamow Valley: Plaxton's Lake, Rotary River Park and Kiwanis River Park
- The City of Moose Jaw dog parks on High Street West
- Backyards and lawns in Moose Jaw, Regina and Winnipeg
- Regina: Victoria Park and City Square
- Wascana Park, Willow Island and Candy Cane Park, Regina
- Kiwanis Waterfall Park, Regina
- Mount Pleasant Off-Leash Dog Park, Regina
- Cathy Lauritsen Memorial Off-Leash Dog Park, Regina
- Fairchild Park and Norseman Park, Harbour Landing
- Winnipeg: Kildonan Park
- King's Park, Winnipeg
- St. Vital Park, Winnipeg
- Assiniboine Park lawns and picnic sites
- Soccer fields and ball diamonds in Regina and Winnipeg
- Gimli Beach Park and the boardwalk
- Moonlight Bay, Gimli
- Winnipeg Beach and Grand Beach on Lake Winnipeg
- Regina Beach on Last Mountain Lake
Moose Jaw, Regina, Winnipeg and Lake Winnipeg
City parks and valleys in Moose Jaw, Regina and Winnipeg, and the sand along Lake Winnipeg.
Crescent Park, Moose Jaw
Along with the playground and spray park, Crescent Park has an amphitheatre for summer concerts with a dance floor in front of it, tennis courts and a lawn bowling green on the east side of the park, and the Serpentine, a stretch of Spring Creek with rock-built banks. Tell us which of these you were near.
Wakamow Valley, Moose Jaw
Wakamow Valley runs through the heart of Moose Jaw with trails and a string of parks. At its entrance, the Plaxton's Lake sun shelter stands on a wooden boardwalk and is used for wedding ceremonies. Rotary River Park has the city's biggest playground and a bandstand, and Kiwanis River Park is for picnics and canoeing.
City Square, Wascana Park and Regina Beach
In the heart of downtown Regina, City Square joins Victoria Park to the F.W. Hill Mall and the Pat Fiacco Plaza. The Regina Farmers' Market is held there, and festivals such as the Regina Folk Festival spill over into all of it. South of downtown, Wascana Park surrounds Wascana Lake with paved paths and picnic tables; Willow Island is used for group picnics and weddings, and Candy Cane Park has a play area. North of the city, Regina Beach has its main beach on Last Mountain Lake.
Kiwanis Waterfall Park and the Regina dog parks
Kiwanis Waterfall Park, off Elphinstone Street and Regina Avenue, has a waterfall garden, walking trails, a playground and sports facilities. Of the City off-leash parks, Mount Pleasant is fully fenced with a small dog area, and Cathy Lauritsen Memorial is partly fenced and bordered by Wascana Creek.
Fairchild and Norseman parks, Harbour Landing
Fairchild Park has a dinosaur-themed playground, an athletic field with portable soccer nets and a pathway to the creek. Norseman Park, just off Beacon Drive, has a soccer field, a basketball court and a large play structure.
Kildonan, King's and St. Vital parks, Winnipeg
All three are City of Winnipeg parks where picnic sites and photography and ceremony sites can be rented. Useful points to name: the duck pond and the pavilion at Kildonan, the baseball diamonds and the lake with its waterfall at King's, and the duck pond and treetop lookout at St. Vital.
Assiniboine Park, Winnipeg
At Assiniboine Park, the open lawns and playing areas take in the bookable picnic sites, one of them with volleyball courts, and the grass around the shelter at the Riley Family Duck Pond, which anyone can use. Tell us which picnic site you had, or where you sat by the pond.
Gimli and the Lake Winnipeg beaches
Gimli Beach Park, just east of First Avenue downtown, has a long row of picnic tables, a play structure and a boardwalk. Moonlight Bay, at the south end of 3rd Street, is a beach park with a sandy picnic area lined by trees. Just south, Winnipeg Beach has a restored boardwalk along its Main Beach, and across the lake Grand Beach has white sand backed by grass-topped dunes.
Once the message is in
Pins first, then the detectorist
The detectorist starts from your pins, your photos and the order of your afternoon, which we pass on as their brief.
The half you still have
If part of the necklace came home, such as the broken chain or the pendant, photograph it beside a coin so the detectorist can judge the size of what is missing.
Three parks in one day
A necklace that could have dropped in any of three parks visited on the same day, with no photo or pin to tie it down, is a long shot, and you would hear that from us first.
Your call on costs
We explain the costs before any search is booked, and you decide from there.
The spot itself
Pick the card that matches where you were.
Play areas and spray parks
Crescent Park, Kiwanis Waterfall Park, Fairchild Park and Norseman Park all have playgrounds, and Crescent Park has its spray park too. Say what was under your feet where you last had it: sand, rubber matting, grass or the wet ground by a spray pad.
Ponds, a lake and the Serpentine
For the duck ponds at Kildonan, St. Vital and Assiniboine parks, the lake at King's Park or the Serpentine in Crescent Park, a pin on the bank where you stood or sat is the place to start.
Sand on Lake Winnipeg
On the beach, say what was closest to your spot: a picnic table, the play structure or the boardwalk at Gimli Beach Park, the trees along Moonlight Bay, or the boardwalk at Winnipeg Beach.
Questions about Moose Jaw, Regina and Winnipeg
The necklace could be anywhere from the spray park to the amphitheatre in Crescent Park. Is that too much ground?
Not if you can put your afternoon in order. The amphitheatre sits south of the corner of Athabasca Street East and 2nd Avenue NE, and the park has wide trails as well as the playground and spray park. Pin where your things were while the children played, then trace the paths you took between the play area, the amphitheatre and the car. Those wide trails are easy to follow on a map, so mark where you left them for the grass.
Did my wedding band go over the rocks into the Serpentine? We were sitting on the bank in Crescent Park.
The Serpentine is Spring Creek, its banks built up with rocks picked in the surrounding fields. Those rocks give a searcher something to line up on, so pin the stretch of bank you were sitting on and tell us whether you heard or saw the band go into the water or only noticed later that it had gone.
My watch came off at the Regina Farmers' Market in City Square.
If it went on the paving of the F.W. Hill Mall or the Pat Fiacco Plaza, ask the market and the City whether a watch has been handed in. If you had crossed onto the grass of Victoria Park, send the stalls you visited and where you stepped off the path, and that is where a detectorist starts.
The engagement ring flew off with the ball at the Cathy Lauritsen dog park in Regina.
That park is only partly fenced and is bordered by Wascana Creek, so tell us which way you were facing when you threw and how close you were to the creek side. A pin where you stood, and another where the ball landed, gives a line to work along. The ring's metal and setting help the detectorist too.
We had our engagement photos taken at Kildonan Park, and afterwards the ring was not on her hand.
Kildonan Park has photography and ceremony sites you can rent, as well as picnic shelters and a duck pond. Ask your photographer which spots you used and in what order, if the session moved around the park. Then add where you parked and anything you did after the shoot.
A bracelet came off while I was on the fitness trails at St. Vital Park in Winnipeg.
Besides its fitness trails, St. Vital Park has a duck pond, picnic sites and a treetop lookout, so name the stretch of trail you were on and anywhere you left the path. If you rested on a bench or on the grass, pin that first, and tell us what the clasp was like.
Gimli: a chain gone after an afternoon at the beach.
Start with which beach park it was. Gimli Beach Park is just off First Avenue downtown, with a boardwalk, picnic tables and a play structure; Moonlight Bay is at the south end of 3rd Street, with a sandy picnic area under trees. Then tell us whether you were on the sand, at a table or in the lake when you last had the chain.
Moose Jaw, Regina and Winnipeg
Start with where you sat down
Which city, which park, what came off.
Put those three things in a WhatsApp message. If you already know roughly where the necklace was last on, drop a pin there as well; everything else comes after our reply.