Kamsack

Kamsack is a town in the Assiniboine River Valley, where the Whitesand River joins the Assiniboine River. It is 56 km upper east of Yorkton. Roadway 8 and Highway 5 cross in the town. In 1904, arrive was surrendered from the Cote First Nation for the Canadian Northern Railway station and the town site of Kamsack. Somewhere in the range of 1905 and 1907 extra land was apportioned, the northern segments of which were come back to Indian save status.

In 1913 a further two-mile piece of arrive on the southern limit was given, however returned in 1915 when it was distinguished the Cote individuals had lost excessively of their best horticultural land. In 1963, promote sections of land surrendered in 1905 were additionally reconstituted as hold arrive. The enthusiasm for and surrender of land from the save's southern limit closest the Kamsack town site brought about part from hypothesis of its incentive for settlement.

The grounds around what is currently Kamsack were settled in the 1880s by a bunch of rural pioneers. The cultivating zone around Kamsack was all around settled by 1905. These homesteads comprised of an assortment of ethnic gatherings which are as yet present right up 'til the present time: Doukhobors, Ukrainians, Europeans, Americans and Eastern Canadians were all among the early pioneers to the zone.