St. Boswells, Saskatchewan

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.

St. Boswells, Saskatchewan
Hamlet
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Coordinates: 50.050°N 106.8339°W / 50.050; -106.8339
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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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.

See also

• Scottish place names in Canada
• List of communities in Saskatchewan
• Villages of Saskatchewan
• Hamlets of Saskatchewan