Truax is an unincorporated community in the Rural Municipality of Elmsthorpe No. 100,

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, Canada. It held

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status prior to December 30, 1970. Truax is located southwest of Regina and approximately southeast of

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History

Truax was incorporated as a village on September 9, 1912. Originally named Schuett in honour of an early homesteading family, it was re-named Truax in celebration of Reuben Eldridge Truax, an Ontario businessman and politician. Truax's first overseer (mayor) was F.A. Bennett and the first secretary-treasurer was Joseph Duck. Until the early 1920s, the municipal office, village office,

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, and

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were housed in one building. This building burned in February 1923, causing the loss of most of the early records of Truax. Truax is situated almost equidistant between Radville and

on the

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line that was closed by CN in the late 1980s.

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, a farmer-owned cooperative, took over operation of the line, and it still operates today, with farmers loading their grain directly into rail cars, bypassing the grain companies, and shipping directly to port. The rail line terminates at the Truax grain elevator, built in 1964 and now given Saskatchewan Heritage status. At its peak, Truax had a lumberyard, a gas station, a hardware store, a school, an indoor rink and a curling rink, and two churches (Anglican and Roman Catholic). The gas station and convenience store closed in the mid 1980s. St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church is no longer open, but when it was mass was held every Saturday night at 7:00 in the winter, and 7:30 in the summer. St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church was decommissioned as an official Roman Catholic Church on Sunday, June 25, 2012. Truax was reverted to

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status on December 31, 1970, and came under the jurisdiction of the Rural Municipality of Elmsthorpe No. 100 in 2002.

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{{authority control Elmsthorpe No. 100, Saskatchewan Former villages in Saskatchewan Unincorporated communities in Saskatchewan Populated places disestablished in 1970 Division No. 2, Saskatchewan

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