Oxbow

Oxbow is a city inside the southeast of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located on the Canadian Pacific Railway and on Provincial Highway 18. It is approximately 58 kilometers west of Saskatchewan's border with Manitoba and approximately 26 kilometres north of the Canada–US border with North Dakota. The first settlers within the area round Oxbow - in particular of English, Irish, and Scottish descent - started out homesteading the place in 1882.

The metropolis's weekly newspaper, the Oxbow Herald, changed into founded in 1903. The metropolis became integrated in 1904. The metropolis turned into named after the "oxbow" in the Souris River near which the town is situated. Etymologically, the phrase "oxbow", as implemented to a river, is a metaphor for the oxbow worn through an ox. The city grew hastily within the years following incorporation, achieving a populace of 678 in 1916.

The metropolis's population then hovered around 600-700 for the next several a long time.In the mid-1950s, oil companies started out developing the oilfields around Oxbow. This set off a boom time, as personnel moved to Oxbow to paintings on drilling rigs and provide different offerings to the oil industry. As of 2010 there has been roughly 38,000 oil and gasoline wells around the surrounding vicinity. Agriculture and oil stay the 2 primary industries of the metropolis.