St. Boswells, Saskatchewan

St. Boswells, Saskatchewan
St. Boswells, Saskatchewan
Hamlet
	St. Boswells, Saskatchewan Map of St. Boswells, 1918 St. Boswells, Saskatchewan St. Boswells, Saskatchewan (Canada)
	Coordinates: 50°03′00″N 106°50′02″W / 50.050°N 106.8339°W
Country	Canada
Province	Saskatchewan
Region	Southwest Saskatchewan
Census division	3
Rural Municipality	Glen Bain
Established	1918
Government
• Reeve	Ross Turnbull
• Administrator	Marilyn Scheller
• Governing body	Glen Bain No. 105
Population (2006)
• Total	0
Time zone	CST
Postal code	S0N 2G0
Area code	306
Highways	Range road 124

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.

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.

References

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