Strongfield

It lies approximately 100 km south of the city of Saskatoon on Highway 19 between its sister communities of Hawarden and Loreburn.

Strongfield was once a booming village with an elementary school, post office, car and farm equipment dealerships, two Saskatchewan Wheat Pool grain elevators, small restaurants and other shops.

The village features hockey and curling rinks, an Elks lodge, the Strongfield café and post office, and a small United Church.

Strongfield's beginnings lie from 1903 and the great wave of Western settlement and development of the Canadian prairies.

Maddock and crew from May to July 1883, shortly after the former Hudson's Bay Company lands became part of Canada to be organized as the Northwest Territories.

Another large segment of the early population consisted of Finnish settlers from the Dakotas who came to take homesteads along the banks of the South Saskatchewan River.

The third major segment of the population of the area came from the Central United States and were largely of Norwegian descent.