Rosetown is a town in the

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, at the junction of provincial Highway 7 and Highway 4, approximately 115 kilometres southwest of

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. 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

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and provincialy by the electoral district of

Rosetown-Elrose Rosetown-Delisle is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada. The largest community is Rosetown. Smaller communities in the district include the towns of Outlook, Elrose, Kyle, Zealandia, Langham ...

. Rosetown belongs to census division 12 for enumeration purposes. Rosetown won the 2004 Provincial Communities in Bloom.

History

On September 14, 1905, James and Anne Rose migrated from

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, England, to an area of

, Canada. They were the first settlers in the area now known as Rosetown. Later, in 1907, a group of people from the area, wanting a

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, 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

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. 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.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, 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 , it had a population density of in 2021.

Climate

Rosetown experiences a

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(

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''). Precipitation is quite low, with the majority of it falling in the summer months. The highest temperature ever recorded in Rosetown was on 4 July 1937. The coldest temperature ever recorded was on 23 January 1943.

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

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. 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 -

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, classic hits *104.9 FM - CKVX-FM,

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;Newspapers *'' Rosetown Eagle''

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

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. The town grew in 1910 once the

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track reached Rosetown.

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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

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parliamentarian and

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. * Walter Farquharson,

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, a former professional and Canadian international

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player * Randy Ireland, a

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Sherry Middaugh Sherry L. Middaugh (née Hamel, born October 11, 1966, in Rosetown, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian curler from Victoria Harbour, Ontario. Before marrying world champion curler Wayne Middaugh, she was known as Sherry Scheirich. She is a five-time ...

née Sherry Hamel, a Canadian curler. * Robert (Bob) Ogle, a

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priest, broadcaster and Member of the

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. *

Jim Reiter James Reiter is a Canadian politician. He represents electoral district of Rosetown-Delisle in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan The Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan () is the legislative chamber of the Saskatchewan Legislature in ...

, Canadian politician. *

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, an

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politician

References

External links

* * {{Authority control Towns in Saskatchewan Division No. 12, Saskatchewan