Ravenscrag, Saskatchewan

Unincorporated community in Saskatchewan, Canada

49°30′00″N 109°16′03″W / 49.50°N 109.2675°W / 49.50; -109.2675CountryCanadaProvinceSaskatchewanRegionSouthwestCensus division4Rural Municipality White ValleyEstablished (Post office)1912-08-01 (closed 1986-06-23)Government

• Governing bodyRural Municipality of White ValleyTime zoneCSTPostal code

S0N 2C0

Area code306HighwaysHighway 706RailwaysCanadian Pacific Railway^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Ravenscrag is an unincorporated community within the Rural Municipality of White Valley No. 49, Saskatchewan, Canada. The community is located on Highway 614, along the Frenchman River, 60 kilometres (37 mi) east of the Alberta-Saskatchewan border and about 185 kilometres (115 mi) southwest of the city of Swift Current.

History

Ravenscrag was once a community of over 100 people. Since the Great Depression, the town's population has dropped to one family.^[5]

The settlement gave its name to the Ravenscrag Formation, a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, defined in 1918 by N.B. Davis at Ravenscrag Butte. The formation lies north-east of the community.

References

^ National Archives, Archivia Net, Post Offices and Postmasters, archived from the original on October 6, 2006, retrieved June 30, 2008
^ Government of Saskatchewan, MRD Home, Municipal Directory System, archived from the original on November 21, 2008
^ Canadian Textiles Institute. (2005), CTI Determine your provincial constituency, archived from the original on September 11, 2007
^ Commissioner of Canada Elections, Chief Electoral Officer of Canada (2005), Elections Canada On-line
^ Our Roots History of Ravenscrag Retrieved on 2008-12-14