Kelfield, Saskatchewan

Kelfield
Hamlets
Kelfield is located in Saskatchewan
Kelfield
Kelfield
Kelfield is located in Canada
Kelfield
Kelfield
Coordinates: 51°57′00″N 108°37′00″W / 51.95000°N 108.61667°W / 51.95000; -108.61667
CountryCanada
ProvinceSaskatchewan
RegionSaskatchewan
Census division13
Rural MunicipalityGrandview
Post office Founded1909-09-01
Incorporated (Village)1913
Incorporated (Town)N/A
Time zoneCST
Area code306
Highways51
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Kelfield is a hamlet in central Saskatchewan, Canada. The hamlet is also the home of the municipal offices for the Rural Municipality of Grandview No. 349.

With the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1912, this caused some movement of settlement in the area as local settler moved from the old settlement into the new town site, this also saw the establishment of the Kelfield Lumber Company in the town.[2] Between 1915 and 1916 a second sawmill, the Western Canada Sawmill, opened, as well as a hotel, butcher shop and other business establishments. These early years corresponded to the boom period for the hamlet.

  1. ^ National Archives, Archivia Net, Post Offices and Postmasters, archived from the original on 6 October 2006, retrieved 5 May 2011
  2. ^ Kelfield History Book Committee (1982), Portrait of a community : Kelfield, Saskatchewan, Canada page 27-35, retrieved 5 May 2011