Clemenceau, Saskatchewan

Farmyard near Clemenceau, Saskatchewan
Farmyard near Clemenceau

Clemenceau is a hamlet in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan named after Georges Clemenceau, the French physician, journalist and statesman. Listed as a designated place by Statistics Canada, the hamlet had a population of 10 in the Canada 2006 Census.[1]

Clemenceau is located on the Canadian Pacific Railway approximately 27 kilometres (17 miles) south of Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan and by 1929 the town was one of the largest shipping points of railcar lots of lumber in the province.[2] The lumber industry was the key industry of the town, but a forest fire in 1942 seriously damaged forestry in the area.[3] In 1950, Clemenceau was one of nine provincial land settlement projects after World War II, and was primarily a resettlement block for farmers.[4]

As of 2011, a Federal grain elevator in Clemenceau still stands adjacent to the railway.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Canada 2006 Census: Designated places in Saskatchewan
  2. ↑ Frank Moore, Saskatchewan Ghost Towns, Associated Printers (Regina) 1982, p. 13.
  3. ↑ Frank Moore, Saskatchewan Ghost Towns, Associated Printers (Regina) 1982, p. 13.
  4. ↑ Burke G. Vanderhill, The Decline of Land Settlement in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Economic Geography, Vol. 38, No. 3 (July 1962), pp. 270-277
  5. ↑ Verlo.ca Clemenceau Saskatchewan Webpage

Coordinates: 52°39′51″N 102°31′38″W / 52.66417°N 102.52722°W / 52.66417; -102.52722

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