It is the administrative headquarters of the Carry the Kettle Nakoda Nation band government.

The first section foreman for the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) came to Sintaluta in 1886.

When Saskatchewan became a province in 1905, the people of the settlement soon set into action the application that this place should be incorporated into a town.

Farmers would bring their grain to the elevator and trains would leave without taking it.

Some influential men of the time decided that they would take the Canadian Pacific Railway to court over this matter.

[6] This was later made into a movie by the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and called The Long Haul.

[citation needed] Sintaluta was home to the founder of the current-day United Grain Growers Association (Agricore United) with prominent local residents residing on the first board of directors.

It was congratulating him on being the oldest person from Western Canada who heard the first message sent over the Bell Telephone when he was 21 years old.

[citation needed] Sintaluta once was home to seven elevator companies, and has the distinction as being one of the top grain-producing areas in all of Canada.

Robert (Bob) Baker worked for the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool as a grain buyer from 1935 until 1952 when he was superannuated from the Sask.

Wheat Pool elevator and became Town Clerk as well as selling farm insurance.