White Bear is a hamlet in Lacadena Rural Municipality No. 228, Saskatchewan, Canada. Listed as a designated place by Statistics Canada, the hamlet had a population of 13 in the Canada 2006 Census. The hamlet is located approximately 55 miles (89 km) northwest of Swift Current on the north side of the South Saskatchewan River.
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Demographics
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History
The hamlet's name comes from the sighting of a probable but now extirpated white prairie grizzly bear by an Assiniboine warrior on the shores of a neighbouring lake during the Palliser Expedition of the 1850s. Records from early Metis settlers and the North-West Mounted Police state the last roaming herd of American buffalo being slaughtered in the hills of the Missouri Coteau located 25 miles (40 km) northeast around 1879.
During the 1930s White Bear was a bustling community of approximately 250 residents with two grocery stores, a school, four grain elevators and three garages servicing an area of 200 families, but has since dwindled to a population of 13 in 2006. Part of the decline is attributed to federal policy Canadian National Railway rail line in that area of Saskatchewan. The region rarely suffered poor crops, except during the droughts of the Great Depression and 1988. It is connected to the rest of the province through Highway 342, a now-decrepit road featuring signs with Imperial units in portions. Farmers from the area played prominently in the socialism that later defined Saskatchewan and then Canada through the introduction of Medicare and state-ran insurance. The White Bear Hotel remains the only business in operation, noted for its hot wings and hospitality.
See also
- List of communities in Saskatchewan
- Hamlets of Saskatchewan
- Designated place
References
External links
- Big Things in Saskatchewan White Bear, Saskatchewan
- Horse Shoe Tourism Region
- Saskatchewan City & Town Maps
- Regional GenWeb site (Southwest Region)
- Saskatchewan Gen Web - One Room School Project
- Post Offices and Postmasters - ArchiviaNet - Library and Archives Canada
- Saskatchewan Gen Web Region
- Online Historical Map Digitization Project
- GeoNames Query
- 2001 Community Profiles
- Saskatchewan Cemetery Records
- Sask Cemeteries by Community and RM RM No. 228 - Lacadena
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