Glen
I have one Saskatoon plant (from Shallow Creek nurseries but forgot the variety name) but it is not growing well. One reason is that I have relocated it twice in the past three years. It had more fruit on it the first year when I bought it than any other year.

I experienced that they might grow good in one spot but not the other.
I planted some but the Robbins got the berries when still half green. I got rid of it, it wasn't worse the space in the garden for the few berries. I know now some places in the bush if I want to get some. Many grow large in the wild.

I like amelancier fruit but we can't grow your varieties here although I tried several years ago. One still survives but the birds get the fruit and last year it got fireblight so I think I'm about done with it.

Amelancier Canadensis is a popular landscape tree here and I occassionally am at a site when they're in full fruit. Even with birds all over the trees I've harvested them and enjoyed them as a nice early summer fruit. Nice almond flavor not really like blueberries at all except in appearence. I can eat a lot more blueberries.

I've had saskatoons at two locations. They are quite similar to service berries. I think the distinction has more to do with the location than the plant. I find the plants quite productive(10-15ft). The last couple of years the weather has made timing the harvest difficult. At my previous location, the berries held quite awhile on the bush. Now, they get tasteless and mealy as the dry out.

Hmmm not very good reviews so far.I'm wondering if they are worth the effort.The only person who raved about these was my foreman when I used to work in the industrial park just outside of Konrads home town.He would eat bowls of them the night before and tell me how good they are and then quickly scurrying off to the bathroom to relieve his loose bowels.He only described them as being "like blueberries". My thought process tells me, "like blue berries" + loose bowels= a good berry.
I'll plant them and watch them grow and if me or my family don't acquire a taste for them then it isn't a huge loss as these plants are only $10.00 a piece.

Sure...you never know until you try.
I run out of frozen berries, I usually put some in my morning cereal mix, hopefully this year will be a good year, sometimes spring frost can kill the flowers.
Even if you don't like them,..not a total loss, you can graft pears onto these.

We have lots of serviceberries around my place in Toronto. I like them. I find them a lot like blueberries, but the seeds are bigger, and the skins are firmer. They sure are a lot easier to pick from a tree than hunched over low bushes. A couple of the trees here were hard to pick and did not want to let go of the fruit at all. I like how cleanly that Serviceberries pick. Picking them over for stems was easy too. Given the choice, I would rather eat blueberries, but the serviceberries are good.

By the way, from whom/where did you order the cherries and Saskatoons?

Konrad,that is very interesting how pear can be grafted to saskatoon. So do you have personal experience with this combination? I lived in Calmar AB not too far from you and I experienced -42C (-43F) winter lows brrrrr, I didn't think that there were any pear cultivars hardy enough to survive.
paully1 I'm purchasing these plants from prairie plant systems, who are better known to some for their medicinal marijuana products.

I just looked at their website again and looks like they have a facility in Michigan as well, I know some posters on this forum from the U.S are looking for the romance series bush cherries and maybe they are available through them.

Several years ago I grafted some, cut all the limbs down to about a foot and grafted several pears onto, they grew like crazy the first year...but from then on it was all down hill, eventually it died in the 3rd year only because I didn't do it right. I should have left about 2/3 of the Saskatoon's, only top graft about 3 feet up one or two branch. Saskatoon is a dwarfing root stock and you'll have very soon pears. I know of someone who actually harvested some and brought to the fruit show.
There are some pears here one can grow, my tree is about 35 years old with many cultivars topgrafted.
Hm...Calmar, sure, not far away, been going that way when Ice fishing on Pigeon Lake. Did the Oilfield took you here?

Here is Anjou and Golden Spice
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You are the man Konrad!, I have an anjou pear and thought it was strictly a zone 5 pear!Do they mature enough in your short growing season to be any good?
I'm going to try gafting to wild service berry this spring for fun,i may try apple on them too to see if they take as well.
Yes I did go out there to work, I worked in Nisku for an oil rig manufacturer called Cassidy Engineering.
I never fished pigeon lake as it was always like a beach with hundreds if not thousands of people in the summer.Fished others wizard,jackfish,star,wobamen,ashland dam, Genesee by the power station before they closed it to the public. But the very best place was on the north Saskatchewan river just outside Genesee, always caught something big,pike over 3 foot the biggest was 41 inches(wife caught it) biggest walleye 6 lbs, man those were good times.
I always had this idea that fruit variety wasn't achievable in such a cold climate with a short growing season but you sure are a pioneer my hats off to you konrad.

Glenn