St._Boswells,_Saskatchewan

St. Boswells, Saskatchewan

St. Boswells, Saskatchewan

Hamlet in Saskatchewan, Canada

For the village in Scotland, see St Boswells.

St. Boswells is a hamlet in Glen Bain Rural Municipality No. 105, Saskatchewan, Canada. The hamlet is about 8 km east of Highway 19, and about 25 km northwest of the town of Gravelbourg. Very little remains of the former village except a well known as the best water around, and sidewalks which mark the once prosperous business section of St. Boswells.

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History

St. Boswells was a railroad town founded in 1918, as a Canadian National Railway point along the line from Moose Jaw to Neidpath, though the surrounding area had been settled at least a decade earlier. Named after Alex Dow's, hometown of St. Boswells, Roxburghshire, Scotland. St. Boswells was chosen as the name for the community's first post office.

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References

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    Official website http://www.mds.gov.sk.ca/apps/Pub/MDS/muniDetails.aspx?cat=10&mun=2396 Glen Bain No.
  2. [2]
    National Archives, Archivia Net, Post Offices and Postmasters, archived from the original on October 6, 2006, retrieved January 19, 2009
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    Government of Saskatchewan, MRD Home, Municipal Directory System, archived from the original on November 21, 2008
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    Canadian Textiles Institute. (2005), CTI Determine your provincial constituency, archived from the original on September 11, 2007
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    Commissioner of Canada Elections, Chief Electoral Officer of Canada (2005), Elections Canada On-line

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