Cymric is an
unincorporated community
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in the
Rural Municipality of Last Mountain Valley No. 250,
Saskatchewan
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, Canada. It is located along
Highway 20 between
Duval
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and
Govan
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, it is also serviced by the
Canadian Pacific Railway
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and located at mile 62.3 on the rail line running between
Regina and
Lanigan.
History
Cymric is a
Welsh
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* Welsh, of or about Wales
* Welsh language, spoken in Wales
* Welsh people, an ethnic group native to Wales
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word and named by a family of early Welsh settlers. The first group of settlers in this area where
Volga Germans
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Recruited as immigrants to Russia in the ...
who settled the area in the late 19
th century, followed later by British and Norwegian settlers. The Neu Elsass (New
Alsace
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) Colony was established in 1884 by D.W. Riedl, a German immigration agent from
Winnipeg
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. It was the first German colony established in Saskatchewan. Neu Elsass began when twenty-two families homesteaded near Strasbourg. The original area of Neu Elsass Colony was the region around the central and southern portion of
Last Mountain Lake
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and included
Strasbourg
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, Duval,
Bulyea
Bulyea ( 2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of McKillop No. 220 and Census Division No. 6.
History
Bulyea was first settled in 1882-1883 by immigrants from the United Ki ...
,
Earl Grey
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,
Gibbs
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* 2937 Gibbs, an asteroid
...
,
Silton,
Dilke,
Holdfast
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,
Penzance
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, and
Liberty
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. The area of German settlement expanded into surrounding areas, including Cymric and in effect, doubling the area of the colony.
The
Canadian Pacific Railway
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erected a portable train station along the rail line in 1911 which was replaced in 1924 by an imported standard number five station which was removed in 1943. At its peak, the community had four grain elevators. The community's first post office was set up in 1912. The Cymric
Presbyterian Church
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held its first service on December 17, 1916, with Reverend J.C. Madill presiding. It was built on land donated by Alex Reid. The church later became a
United Church
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in 1925 which was closed in 1968 and the building sold for $100 and moved to the
Methodist Church
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camp at
Arlington Beach on nearby Last Mountain Lake.
All that remains of Cymric today is the St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery, which was attached to a church southwest of Cymric and the D & L General Store on Highway 20 which still serves as a post office for the area.
See also
*
List of communities in Saskatchewan
Communities in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, include Incorporation (municipal government), incorporated municipalities, Unincorporated area#Canada, unincorporated communities and First Nations in Canada, First Nations communities.
Types ...
Notable people
*
Tom Johnston
References
Unincorporated communities in Saskatchewan
Last Mountain Valley No. 250, Saskatchewan
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