Kamsack, Saskatchewan

Kamsack ( Town of Kamsack ) is a small town in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

It lies in the valley of the Assiniboine River at the mouth of White Sand River. Because of the fertile soil, its picturesque scenery and the most beautiful weather one called Kamsack also the garden of Saskatchewan.

History

End of the 19th century, after the incorporation of the territory into the newly formed Canadian Dominion, it attracted many settlers to the fertile prairie soils. In 1903, the Canadian National Railway their route from Winnipeg to Edmonton finished, and the new station for the area was the core of the city, founded in 1905. In the early 1920s there were about 2000 inhabitants, but the world economic crisis in 1929 halted the rapid growth.

Destroyed in 1944 the so-called Kamsack Cyclone large parts of the city, but in the future the damage was not only resolved, but the largest building boom there has even been triggered since the founding of the city, and the place grew into until the 1960s.

In recent years, several companies joined in Kamsack its doors, and so they came at the official 2006 census to 1713 inhabitants, an almost dramatic decrease of 15 % compared to 2001 (2009 Ew. ), While the population of the province of Saskatchewan increased even slightly.

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