St. Boswells, Saskatchewan | |
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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[1] |
Population (2006) | |
• Total | 0 |
Time zone | CST |
Postal code | S0N 2G0 |
Area code | 306 |
Highways | Range road 124 |
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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.
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.