Robsart | |
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Motto: "A Town With a Bright Future" (1915) | |
Coordinates: 49°22′22″N109°16′55″W / 49.3729°N 109.282°W | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Saskatchewan |
Region | Southwest |
Rural municipality | Reno No. 51 |
Established | 1910 |
Incorporated (Village) | 1912 |
Dissolved (Unincorporated) | January 1, 2002 |
Government | |
• Governing body | Reno No. 51 [1] |
• Reeve | Brian McMillan |
• Administrator | Lacelle Kim |
• MLA | Doug Steele |
• MP | Jeremy Patzer |
Area | |
• Total | 7.91 km2 (3.05 sq mi) |
Population (2016) | |
• Total | 20 |
• Density | 11.7/km2 (30/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
Postal code | S0N 2G0 |
Area code | 306 |
Highways | Hwy 13 Hwy 18 |
Railways | Great Western Railway |
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Robsart is an unincorporated hamlet within the rural municipality of Reno No. 51, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Robsart had a population of 20 at the 2016 Canada Census (a 100% increase from 10 in the 2011 Canada Census). Robsart previously incorporated an independent village since 1912 until it was dissolved into an unincorporated community on January 1, 2002 under the jurisdiction of the rural municipality of Reno No. 51. Robsart is located 48 km southwest of the town of Eastend at the junction of Highway 18 and Highway 13 (also known as the historic Red Coat Trail) approximately 170 km south-east of Medicine Hat, Alberta, 68 km south of the Town of Maple Creek.
Prior to January 1, 2002, Robsart was incorporated as a village, and was dissolved into an unincorporated community under the jurisdiction of the rural municipality of Reno on that date. [6]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Robsart had a population of 15 living in 5 of its 6 total private dwellings, a change of -25% from its 2016 population of 20. With a land area of 1.67 km2 (0.64 sq mi), it had a population density of 9.0/km2 (23.3/sq mi) in 2021. [7]
In 1910, Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) purchased a quarter section of land in the southwest region of Saskatchewan and called it Robsart. The land was named after Amy Robsart, from the Sir Walter Scott book, Kenilworth . Three years later the land was bought by a man named Henry Abbott, who led the first settlers to the new community. Shortly after the settlers arrived, many businesses started to go up quickly. Two of the first businesses were a general store and feed mill, and soon 30 other businesses, including a dentist, jeweller, and a surgeon, arrived.
When the CPR finished the construction of the Stirling-Weyburn line, a boom occurred, bringing in even more prosperity for the small community. Almost weekly new businesses were opening, bringing new hotels, cafés, churches, livery barns, a school, banks, grain elevators, and its own public hospital which opened its doors in 1917 and still stands today. Ten years after the town of Robsart was established it had a population of 350 residents, its own town hall, mayor, town council, and around more than 50 businesses. The town was so prosperous that one postcard with a picture of Robsart bore the ironic motto “A town with a bright future.”
In the late 1920s, Robsart's prosperous beginnings began a long decline. Starting with a grain elevator fire in 1929, one year later another blaze wiped out a large section of the business core. Next was the Great Depression, accompanying droughts, falling grain prices and poor crop yields, which caused further business closures in the once industrious business core. Many merchants were hit hard by crippling financial losses and had to leave in search for a better way of life. Since the beginning of the Great Depression the community has struggled but never with the same early pioneer optimism.
In the 1980s, locals and nearby farmers rallied together and renovated the old community hall in hopes of reviving the once thriving town, but one by one most remaining businesses and homes were boarded up, including Robsart's Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and Pioneer elevators which were demolished in 2000. Both had played a crucial role in the community over the years. Finally on January 1, 2002, due to dwindling population, the village of Robsart was dissolved, and is now governed by the Rural municipality of Reno No. 51.
In the early 1990s, former and current residents of Robsart got together and made a community history book; Our Side of The Hills. [14] Former mayor and resident Archie Smiley submitted a revised version of an old poem called "Ode to Robsart". [15]
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