Stranraer is an unorganized
hamlet
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located in the
Rural Municipality of Mountain View No. 318
The Rural Municipality of Mountain View No. 318 ( 2016 population: ) is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within Census Division No. 12 and Division No. 6.
History
The RM of Mountain View No. 318 incor ...
in
Saskatchewan
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on
Highway 31
The following highways are numbered 31:
International
* Asian Highway 31
* European route E31
Australia
* Hume Highway
** Hume Motorway
** Hume Freeway
* - South Australia
** Gorge Road
** Little Para Road
** South Para Road
** Lyndoch V ...
and along a now abandoned section of the
Kerrobert
Kerrobert is a town in west central Saskatchewan. It has a population of 970 (2021)
Kerrobert is served by Highway 21, Highway 31 and Highway 51 as well as the Canadian Pacific Railway. It is approximately east of the Saskatchewan/Alberta bord ...
-
Rosetown Canadian Pacific Railway
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line. The community is along the course of
Eagle Creek.
History
Stranraer is named after
Stranraer, Scotland. The hamlet was given its name by the
Canadian Pacific Railway
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. The town of Stranraer is located in the Eagle Creek Valley and was home to Twin Towers Ski Resort for thirty years, before it closed in 2009. The town boasted a
Canada Post
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office, grain elevators, a beach volleyball site and picnic grounds, a
United Church
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, constructed between 1926 and 1929 and was designated as a Municipal Heritage site and an old school, completed in 1927, that has had the exterior restored with murals, showing Stranraer back in its heyday, covering some of its windows.
Stranraer was established in 1913, but long before the railway came through the district was served by Ferguson brothers‘ store. When Stranraer was officially incorporated as a village, the Fergusons built the first store. At one point Stranraer boasted four grain elevators with a total capacity of 150,000 bushels. The Stranraer School, a municipal heritage site, opened in 1927, replacing an earlier, smaller school that dated back to 1912. The new school had three teachers who taught several grades. As the local population of Stranraer shrunk, enrolment in the school declined and was officially closed in 1969. The town also had a large community hall with a hardwood dance floor. There were two general stores, a hardware store, a garage, and an implement agency with a well equipped machine shop. Stranraer still boasted three Sask Pool plants in the 1978-79 crop year, however, today, there are none remaining.
Historic buildings
There are a couple historic buildings in Stranraer, including one designated as a Municipal Heritage Property:
* Stranraer School
* Stranraer United Church
Gallery
Points of interest in Stranraer, Saskatchewan and area.
File:Stranraer Saskatchewan School and students.jpg, Teacher and students outside of Wynona school near Stranraer in 1909
File:Stranraer Saskatchewan School outside.jpg, Teacher outside of Wynona school, near Stranraer Saskatchewan 1909
File:Stranraer Saskatchewan School.jpg, Stranraer, Saskatchewan school
File:Stranraer Saskatchewan School 02.jpg, Stranraer, Saskatchewan school
File:Stranraer Saskatchewan School 06.jpg, Stranraer, Saskatchewan school
File:Stranraer Saskatchewan School 04.jpg, Stranraer, Saskatchewan school
File:Stranraer Saskatchewan School 05.jpg, Stranraer, Saskatchewan school
File:Stranraer Saskatchewan School 03.jpg, Stranraer, Saskatchewan school
File:Stranraer Saskatchewan United Church.jpg, Stranraer, Saskatchewan United Church
A united church, also called a uniting church, is a church formed from the merger or other form of church union of two or more different Protestant Christian denominations.
Historically, unions of Protestant churches were enforced by the state ...
See also
*
List of communities in Saskatchewan
Communities in the Province of Saskatchewan, Canada include incorporated municipalities, unincorporated communities and First Nations communities.
Types of incorporated municipalities include urban municipalities, rural municipalities and nort ...
References
External links
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Former villages in Saskatchewan
Unincorporated communities in Saskatchewan
Heritage sites in Saskatchewan
Mountain View No. 318, Saskatchewan
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