Bienfait

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Town in Saskatchewan, Canada

title: "Bienfait" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["coalfields-no.-4,-saskatchewan", "towns-in-saskatchewan", "division-no.-1,-saskatchewan"] description: "Town in Saskatchewan, Canada" topic_path: "general/coalfields-no-4-saskatchewan" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bienfait" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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established_title	Post office established
established_date	1893
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established_date2	Apr 16, 1912
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established_date3	March 1, 1957
leader_title	Mayor
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population_total	780
population_as_of	2011
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area_code	306
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Bienfait is a town in Saskatchewan on Highway 18 that is 14 km east of Estevan. It is surrounded by the RM of Coalfields.

For services, Bienfait has one K-8 school, a gas station, a curling rink and an ice rink, which is where the Bienfait Coalers of the Big 6 Hockey League play. The Coalers have won the Lincoln Trophy 15 times, which is the most of any team.

The Bienfait Museum is in the old CPR Station on the east end of town. The original location for the station was on the CPR line on the north side of town.

History

Bienfait was incorporated as the Village of Bienfait on April 16, 1912. It became a town on March 1, 1957, and was named by the Canadian Pacific Railway after Antoine Charles Bienfait, a banker with Adolphe Boissevain & Company of Amsterdam since the firm had been involved in the sale of Canadian Pacific shares in Europe.

In 1931, striking coal miners marched from Bienfait to nearby Estevan, which resulted in the Estevan Riot.

Train / Caboose Lot

On the north side of town on Railway Avenue at the head of Main Street, sits a Manitoba & Saskatchewan Coal Company (M&S) Locomotive #3522, which is on the Canadian Register of Historic Places. The M & S Locomotive was built in 1907 and used to transport coal from the mines to Bienfait to market until 1968. It was one of the last commercially-functioning steam engines in Canada.

The town of Bienfait acquired the locomotive in 1968 and the caboose in 2000. The caboose is an old Canadian National Railway caboose. This site was added to the list of historic places in Saskatchewan on March 28, 2002.

Demographics

|2006_population=748 |2006_pop_delta=-4.8 |2006_land_area=3.09 |2006_pop_density=242.1 |2006_pop_rank= |2006_median_age=32.1 |2006_median_age_m=33.3 |2006_median_age_f=31.1 |2006_total_pvt_dwell=320 |2006_total_pvt_dwell_usual=295 |2006_mean_hh_income= |2006_access_date=2012-12-24}}

Gallery

File:M&S Locomotive.jpg|M&S Locomotive in Bienfait File:Main Street Bienfait looking north.png|Main Street Bienfait, looking north with the locomotive at the end of the road File:M&S Locomotive plaque.jpg|M&S Locomotive plaque File:Bienfait Memorial Arena.jpg|Bienfait Memorial Arena

Notable people

Andy Shauf — Singer-songwriter and guitarist

References

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References

The Canadian Press. (2017). "The Canadian Press Stylebook". [[The Canadian Press]].
(March 2025). "▷ BIENFAIT CURLING RINK ✔ All the information about BIENFAIT CURLING RINK ✔ BIENFAIT".
"DiscoverEstevan".
"Bienfait Coalers at eliteprospects.com".
"Big Six Hockey League". Big Six Hockey League.
"Bienfait Coalfields Historical Society Museum | Tourism Saskatchewan".
"HistoricPlaces.ca - HistoricPlaces.ca".
(February 9, 2022). "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions (municipalities), Saskatchewan". [[Statistics Canada]].

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