In September 1907, the Great Northern Railway (GN) rail head from Walhalla reached the border.

[3] In terms of the region, the earliest customs service began at Morden in 1885, where the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) collected duties, issued permits, and patrolled the border to deter smuggling.

[4] A decade later, an additional customs facility was established farther south, primarily to handle cross-border rail traffic.

The office was initially called Krahn, but was renamed a year later to Haskett, where a room in the train station housed the activities.

[3] The settlement dated from the 1870s, but grew after an American entrepreneur called Haskett bought the respective land from Bernhard Krahn.