Weyburn

Weyburn is the 10th-biggest town in Saskatchewan, Canada. The metropolis has a populace of 10,870. It is at the Souris River 110 kilometres southeast of the provincial capital of Regina and is 70 km north from the North Dakota border in the United States. The call is reputedly a corruption of the Scottish "wee burn," referring to a small creek. The town is surrounded by way of the Rural Municipality of Weyburn No. 67.

The Canadian Pacific Railway reached the future website of Weyburn from Brandon, Manitoba in 1892 and the Soo Line from North Portal on the US border in 1893. A post office opened in 1895 and a land office in 1899 in anticipation of the land rush which quickly ensued. In 1899, Knox Presbyterian Church became based with its constructing built in 1906 in the high-pitched gable roof and arches, status as an affidavit to the religion and optimism in the Weyburn vicinity. Weyburn become legally constituted a village in 1900, a city in 1903 and finally as a city in 1913. From 1910 until 1931 the Weyburn Security Bank become established within the town. Weyburn had given that grow to be an crucial railroad city in Saskatchewan.