Highway 21 is a

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in the

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. It runs from Montana Secondary Highway 233 at the United States border near Willow Creek to Highway 950/ Highway 919 within the

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. Highway 21 is about long. Highway 21 passes through the major communities of Maple Creek,

Kindersley Kindersley is a town surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Kindersley No. 290 in west-central Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located along Highway 7, a primary highway linking Calgary, Alberta and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. At a population of 4,59 ...

, Kerrobert, and

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. Highway 21 intersects three major western Saskatchewan highways:

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, Highway 7, and

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. Highway 21 has average annual daily traffic (AADT) of 500 vehicles a day and truck traffic is 30% of this total.

has two inland grain terminals. The oil and gas industry is also active in this area.

History

The original ''Provincial Highway 21'' is between

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west of Robsart and

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. It originally continued west from Leader to

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and

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, before it turned north and followed Range Road 3293, adjacent to the

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-Saskatchewan border. It followed a series of country roads through Loverna,

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, and

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Onion Lake The Onion Lake Cree Nation ( cr, ᐑᐦᒉᑲᐢᑯᓰᐏᓵᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᕽ, wîhcêkaskosîwi-sâkahikanihk) is a Plains Cree First Nations band government in Canada, straddling the Alberta/Saskatchewan provincial border approximately no ...

. In the 1930s, the Leader-Empress section was renumbered to

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while the Empress-Onion Lake was renumbered to Highway 17 (the section south of Macklin was later decommissioned). At the same time, '' Provincial Highway 30'' ran from

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, through Glidden and Kindersley, to Kerrobert; the section between Lemsford and Glidden was decommissioned in the 1940s. In the 1960s, Highway 330 was commissioned between Kerrobert, through Unity, to Highway 40 west of Cut Knife. ''Provincial Highway 48'' ran between Govenlock and Willow Creek; however in the 1960s, it was renumbered to Highway 348. In 1971, the ''Chesterfield Bridge'' across the

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was opened, extending Highway 21 to Eatonia. Bridges were opened across the

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and

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Rivers were opened later in the decade, and along with the renumbering Highways 348, 30, and 330, Highway 21 assumed its present length.

Major intersections

From south to north:

Footnotes

References

{{Saskatchewan Provincial Highways

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