Gravelbourg

Gravelbourg ( Town of Gravelbourg ) is a small town founded in 1906 in southern Saskatchewan, Canada, is spoken in the traditional French.

It lies in a corridor approximately 100 km from Moose Jaw, Swift Current and the border with the United States. This region was an important transit area already for the natives and was touched in the 19th century by the Redcoat Trail. Gravelbourg is now an important station of the Trans Canada Trail.

The city was a Roman Catholic bishop's residence for many years. 1998 sparked Pope John Paul II on the Gravelbourg Diocese and the parish church of Our Lady of the Assumption was formally co-cathedral of the Archdiocese of Regina. Since then, the city is named after a Titularbistums.

For over forty years Gravelbourg is known for the Collège Mathieu, a French-speaking boarding school for boys, and the now defunct Couvent Jésus Marie for girls.