Rosetown, Saskatchewan
Town in Saskatchewan, Canada
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::summary Town in Saskatchewan, Canada ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox settlement"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| official_name | Rosetown |
| settlement_type | Town |
| image_skyline | Rosetown Saskatchewan Credit Union 2010.jpg |
| image_caption | Rosetown's Main Street |
| motto | Discover Life Here |
| pushpin_map | CAN SK St. Andrews#Saskatchewan |
| pushpin_label_position | |
| coordinates | |
| subdivision_type | Country |
| subdivision_name | Canada |
| subdivision_type1 | Province |
| subdivision_type2 | Rural Municipalities (RM) |
| subdivision_name1 | Saskatchewan |
| subdivision_name2 | St. Andrew's |
| established_title | Post office founded |
| established_date | 1907-09-01 |
| established_title2 | Village established |
| established_date2 | 1909 |
| established_title3 | Town incorporated |
| established_date3 | 1910 |
| leader_title | Mayor |
| leader_name | Trevor Hay |
| leader_title1 | MP |
| leader_name1 | Kelly Block |
| area_total_km2 | 12.14 |
| population_total | 2,451 |
| population_as_of | 2016 |
| population_density_km2 | auto |
| website | |
| footnotes | {{Citation |
| last | National Archives |
| first | Archivia Net |
| title | Post Offices and Postmasters |
| url | http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/post-offices/001001-100.01-e.php |
| last | Government of Saskatchewan |
| first | MRD Home |
| title | Municipal Directory System |
| url | http://www.municipal.gov.sk.ca/index.html |
| archive-url | https://web.archive.org/web/20081121083646/http://www.municipal.gov.sk.ca/index.html |
| archive-date | November 21, 2008 |
| last | Canadian Textiles Institute |
| title | CTI Determine your provincial constituency |
| year | 2005 |
| url | http://www.textiles.ca/eng/nonAuthProg/redirect.cfm?path=IssPolContacts§ionID=7601.cfm |
| url-status | dead |
| archive-url | https://web.archive.org/web/20070911025012/http://www.textiles.ca/eng/nonAuthProg/redirect.cfm?path=IssPolContacts§ionID=7601.cfm |
| archive-date | 2007-09-11 |
| last | Commissioner of Canada Elections |
| first | Chief Electoral Officer of Canada |
| title | Elections Canada On-line |
| year | 2005 |
| url | http://www.elections.ca/home.asp |
| leader_title2 | MLA |
| leader_name2 | Jim Reiter, Saskatchewan Party |
| timezone_DST | CST |
| :: |
| official_name = Rosetown | settlement_type = Town | image_skyline = Rosetown Saskatchewan Credit Union 2010.jpg | imagesize = | image_caption = Rosetown's Main Street | image_flag = | image_seal = | nickname = | motto = Discover Life Here | image_map = | map_caption = | pushpin_map = CAN SK St. Andrews#Saskatchewan | pushpin_label_position = | coordinates = | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = Canada | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_type2 = Rural Municipalities (RM) | subdivision_name1 = Saskatchewan | subdivision_name2 = St. Andrew's | established_title = Post office founded | established_date = 1907-09-01 | established_title2 = Village established | established_date2 = 1909 | established_title3 = Town incorporated | established_date3 = 1910 | leader_title = Mayor | leader_name = Trevor Hay | leader_title1 = MP | leader_name1 = Kelly Block | area_total_km2 = 12.14 | population_total = 2,451 | population_as_of = 2016 | population_density_km2 = auto | population_note = | website = | footnotes = {{Citation | last = National Archives | first = Archivia Net | title = Post Offices and Postmasters | url = http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/post-offices/001001-100.01-e.php |last = Government of Saskatchewan |first = MRD Home |title = Municipal Directory System |url = http://www.municipal.gov.sk.ca/index.html|url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081121083646/http://www.municipal.gov.sk.ca/index.html |archive-date = November 21, 2008 |last = Canadian Textiles Institute |title = CTI Determine your provincial constituency |year = 2005 |url = http://www.textiles.ca/eng/nonAuthProg/redirect.cfm?path=IssPolContacts§ionID=7601.cfm |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070911025012/http://www.textiles.ca/eng/nonAuthProg/redirect.cfm?path=IssPolContacts§ionID=7601.cfm |archive-date = 2007-09-11 | last = Commissioner of Canada Elections | first = Chief Electoral Officer of Canada | title = Elections Canada On-line | year = 2005 | url = http://www.elections.ca/home.asp | leader_title2 = MLA | leader_name2 = Jim Reiter, Saskatchewan Party | timezone = | utc_offset = | timezone_DST = CST | utc_offset_DST =
Rosetown is a town in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, at the junction of provincial Highway 7 and Highway 4, approximately 115 kilometres southwest of Saskatoon. The town's motto, "The Heart of the Wheat Belt", reflects its history of being a farming community. It is within the Rural Municipality of St. Andrews No. 287.
Rosetown is represented federally by the electoral district of Carlton Trail—Eagle Creek and provincialy by the electoral district of Rosetown-Elrose. Rosetown belongs to census division 12 for enumeration purposes.
Rosetown won the 2004 Provincial Communities in Bloom.
History
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On September 14, 1905, James and Anne Rose migrated from Lancashire, England, to an area of Saskatchewan, Canada.{{Citation | last = Russell | first = E.T. | title = What's in a Name? | publisher = Western Producer Prairie Books | year = 1975 | location = Rosetown, SK | isbn = 1-894022-92-0 | page = 276}} They were the first settlers in the area now known as Rosetown.{{Citation | last = Barry | first = Bill | title = People Places Contemporary Saskatchewan Placenames | publisher = Print West communications | year = 2003 | location = Regina, Canada | isbn = 1-894022-92-0 | page = 230}} Later, in 1907, a group of people from the area, wanting a post office, made an application for one. As a name had to be given to the post office, the group dedicated it to the town's most senior settlers, the Roses. As the name "Rose" was already taken, the group added "town" to it to create "Rosetown". The post office opened on September 7, 1907.
A Jewish colony was established near Rosetown after 1906.
Rosetown became a village on August 29, 1909, after Wilrod Bifair sold his homestead for $12 an acre to the Canadian Northern Railway. Village status was granted on August 4, 1909, when the population reached 500 people. W.G. King, W.R. Ferguson, and N.B. Douglas formed the village council in the same year. The first village council meeting was held on September 27, 1909. W.G. King established the first business in the village in 1909. Later that year he built three other stores at different locations.
Much of the town was destroyed in a cyclone on June 16, 1923.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Rosetown had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 11.59 km2, it had a population density of in 2021. |location = Rosetown | 2001_population = 2,471 | 2001_pop_delta = - 1.0 | 2001_land_area = 10.59 | 2001_pop_density = 233.4 | 2001_pop_rank = | 2001_median_age = 42.1 | 2001_median_age_m = 40.1 | 2001_median_age_f = 44.7 | 2001_total_pvt_dwell = 1,151 | 2001_mean_hh_income = 38,259 | 2001_access_date = 2011-07-06 | 2006_population = 2,277 | 2006_pop_delta = −7.9 | 2006_land_area = 10.59 | 2006_pop_density = 215 | 2006_pop_rank = | 2006_median_age = 46.8 | 2006_median_age_m = 45.2 | 2006_median_age_f = 48.6 | 2006_total_pvt_dwell = 1,114 | 2006_total_pvt_dwell_usual = 1,114 | 2006_mean_hh_income = 45,861 | 2006_access_date = 2011-07-06 | 2011_population = 2,317 | 2011_pop_delta = 1.8 | 2011_land_area = 12.14 | 2011_pop_density = 190.8 | 2011_pop_rank = | 2011_median_age = | 2011_median_age_m = | 2011_median_age_f = | 2011_total_pvt_dwell = 1,121 | 2011_mean_hh_income = | 2011_access_date = 20 May 2012 | 2016_population = 2,451 | 2016_pop_delta = 5.8 | 2016_land_area = 12.14 | 2016_pop_density = 201.9 | 2016_pop_rank = | 2016_median_age = | 2016_median_age_m = | 2016_median_age_f = | 2016_total_pvt_dwell = 1,187 | 2016_mean_hh_income = | 2016_access_date = 18 March 2017 |2021_population=2,507 | 2021_pop_delta=+2.3 | 2021_land_area=11.59 | 2021_pop_density=216.3 |2021_median_age=44.8 | 2021_median_age_m=41.6 | 2021_median_age_f=48.4 |2021_total_pvt_dwell=1,115 |2021_mean_hh_income= |2021_geocode=2021A00054712006 | 2021_access_date=2022-04-27
Climate
Rosetown experiences a semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification) BSk). Precipitation is quite low, with the majority of it falling in the summer months.
The highest temperature ever recorded in Rosetown was 43.9 C on 4 July 1937. The coldest temperature ever recorded was -47.2 C on 23 January 1943.
| location = Rosetown, 1981–2010 normals, extremes 1937–present | metric first = yes | single line = yes | Jan record high C = 10.0 | Feb record high C = 11.0 | Mar record high C = 24.3 | Apr record high C = 35.6 | May record high C = 36.0 | Jun record high C = 42.2 | Jul record high C = 43.9 | Aug record high C = 43.3 | Sep record high C = 37.0 | Oct record high C = 33.3 | Nov record high C = 22.2 | Dec record high C = 16.1 | year record high C = 43.9 | Jan high C = −9.7 | Feb high C = −5.6 | Mar high C = 1.4 | Apr high C = 12.2 | May high C = 19.0 | Jun high C = 23.2 | Jul high C = 25.8 | Aug high C = 25.8 | Sep high C = 19.1 | Oct high C = 11.6 | Nov high C = −1.1 | Dec high C = −7.4 | year high C = 9.5 | Jan mean C = −15.2 | Feb mean C = −11.1 | Mar mean C = −3.9 | Apr mean C = 4.9 | May mean C = 11.3 | Jun mean C = 15.9 | Jul mean C = 18.2 | Aug mean C = 17.8 | Sep mean C = 11.5 | Oct mean C = 4.5 | Nov mean C = −6.1 | Dec mean C = −12.7 | year mean C = 2.9 | Jan low C = −20.6 | Feb low C = −16.4 | Mar low C = −9.3 | Apr low C = −2.4 | May low C = 3.6 | Jun low C = 8.6 | Jul low C = 10.6 | Aug low C = 9.8 | Sep low C = 3.8 | Oct low C = −2.7 | Nov low C = −11.1 | Dec low C = −17.9 | year low C = −3.7 | Jan record low C = −47.2 | Feb record low C = −43.0 | Mar record low C = −42.2 | Apr record low C = −30.0 | May record low C = −12.2 | Jun record low C = −5.0 | Jul record low C = −2.8 | Aug record low C = −3.0 | Sep record low C = −13.9 | Oct record low C = −25.0 | Nov record low C = −35.1 | Dec record low C = −42.0 | year record low C = −47.2 | precipitation colour = green | Jan precipitation mm = 12.9 | Feb precipitation mm = 6.0 | Mar precipitation mm = 15.1 | Apr precipitation mm = 19.5 | May precipitation mm = 44.2 | Jun precipitation mm = 57.1 | Jul precipitation mm = 57.3 | Aug precipitation mm = 41.1 | Sep precipitation mm = 29.2 | Oct precipitation mm = 17.2 | Nov precipitation mm = 15.2 | Dec precipitation mm = 12.4 | year precipitation mm = 327.0 |rain colour = green |Jan rain mm = 0.5 |Feb rain mm = 0.2 |Mar rain mm = 3.8 |Apr rain mm = 14.0 |May rain mm = 39.9 |Jun rain mm = 57.1 |Jul rain mm = 57.3 |Aug rain mm = 41.1 |Sep rain mm = 27.1 |Oct rain mm = 12.4 |Nov rain mm = 2.6 |Dec rain mm = 0.1 |year rain mm = 256.2 |Jan snow cm = 12.4 |Feb snow cm = 5.8 |Mar snow cm = 11.3 |Apr snow cm = 5.5 |May snow cm = 4.2 |Jun snow cm = 0.0 |Jul snow cm = 0.0 |Aug snow cm = 0.0 |Sep snow cm = 2.1 |Oct snow cm = 4.8 |Nov snow cm = 12.7 |Dec snow cm = 12.2 |year snow cm = 70.8 | source 1 = Environment Canada{{Cite web | title = Rosetown CDA EPF | publisher = Environment Canada | date= 1 May 2016 | url = http://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_normals/results_1961_1990_e.html?stnID=1472&lang=e&StationName=rosetown&SearchType=Contains&stnNameSubmit=go&dCode=0&prov=SK&dispBack=1 | access-date = 1 May 2016}}{{Cite web | title = Rosetown | publisher = Environment Canada | date= 1 May 2016 | url = http://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_normals/results_1981_2010_e.html?stnID=3250&lang=e&StationName=rosetown&SearchType=Contains&stnNameSubmit=go&dCode=5&dispBack=1 | access-date = 1 May 2016}}{{Cite web | title = Rosetown East | publisher = Environment Canada | date= 1 May 2016 | url = http://climate.weather.gc.ca/historical_data/search_historic_data_stations_e.html?searchType=stnName&timeframe=1&txtStationName=rosetown+east&searchMethod=contains&optLimit=yearRange&StartYear=1840&EndYear=2016&Year=2016&Month=7&Day=9&selRowPerPage=25 | access-date = 1 May 2016}} | date = May 2016
Education
Walter Aseltine School is the elementary school in Rosetown named after a member of parliament Walter Aseltine. Rosetown Central High School provides secondary school education for Rosetown and surrounding rural areas. Both schools are part of the Sun West School Division. The Sun West School Division Office which provides education to west-central Saskatchewan is in Rosetown.
Students in Kindergarten to Grade 6 attend Walter Aseltine School and Grades 7 to 12 attend the Rosetown Central High School. The average graduating class is 45-60 students depending on the year.
Prairie West Regional College provides post secondary education.
Media
;Radio
- 1330 AM - CJYM, classic hits
- 104.9 FM - CKVX-FM, adult contemporary
;Newspapers
Sports
The Rosetown Red Wings of the Sask Valley Hockey League play out of SaskCan Centre. They were formerly part of Allan Cup Hockey West.
Transportation
The first transportation was provided by a Red River Cart Trail called Old Bone Trail as well as the historic Swift Current-Battleford Trail. The town grew in 1910 once the Canadian National Railway track reached Rosetown.{{Citation | last = Saskatchewan Government Sask Biz | title = Colonsay Geography Rosetown is situated in the heart of the Midwest... | year = 2004 | url = http://www.saskbiz.ca/communityprofiles/CommunityProfile.Asp?CommunityID=241 | access-date = 2007-08-01 }}
Rosetown Airport is near Rosetown. Both Highway 7 and Highway 4 serve vehicular traffic to and from Rosetown.
Notable people
- Lloyd Arntzen, musician, school teacher
- Walter Aseltine, PC, BA, QC was a Canadian parliamentarian and senator.
- Walter Farquharson, Moderator of the United Church of Canada
- Rob Friend, a former professional and Canadian international soccer player
- Randy Ireland, a Buffalo Sabres Goaltender
- Sherry Middaugh née Sherry Hamel, a Canadian curler.
- Robert (Bob) Ogle, a Roman Catholic priest, broadcaster and Member of the House of Commons of Canada.
- Jim Reiter, Canadian politician.
- Eldon Woolliams, an Alberta politician
References
References
- Moxley, B (1982). ''Cyclone: Rosetown 1923''.
- (February 9, 2022). "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions (municipalities), Saskatchewan". [[Statistics Canada]].
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