[1] Fort Ellice, located at Beaver Creek near the junction of the Assiniboine and Qu'Appelle rivers, was founded in 1831 as a Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) trading post.

[3][4] Named after Edward Ellice, Sr., a British merchant and politician, it was an important stop on the Carlton Trail, which ran from the Red River settlement to Fort Edmonton.

On December 22, 1883, the area was incorporated as the Rural Municipality of Ellice, which included the communities of Chillon, Ste.

[6] Named in 1880 by Oblate missionary Father Jules Decorby, the community's founder, St. Lazare was incorporated as a village on December 31, 1949.

[9] On January 1, 2015, the RMs of Archie and Ellice and the Village of St. Lazare amalgamated to establish the present-day Rural Municipality of Ellice-Archie.