Rockglen, Saskatchewan
| Rockglen, Saskatchewan | |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s): Fully Modern | |
| Coordinates: 49°11′0″N 105°57′0″W / 49.18333°N 105.95000°WCoordinates: 49°11′0″N 105°57′0″W / 49.18333°N 105.95000°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Incorporated | 1927 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | His Worship Richard Prefontaine |
| • Member of Legislative Assembly | Dave Marit Saskatchewan Party |
| • Member of Parliament | David Anderson Conservative Party of Canada |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2,85 km2 (1.69 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 1,500 m (4,900 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 400 |
| • Density | 140.4/km2 (364/sq mi) |
| Time zone | Central Standard Time (UTC−6) |
| Website | http://www.rockglentourism.com |
Rockglen is a community in the Burning Hills of the Wood Mountain Uplands, in Saskatchewan, Canada, providing a school, community hall, public library and five parks, as well a local service industry. The municipal office of Rural Municipality #12 Old Post lies within the boundaries of Rockglen, and Rockglen businesses are supported primarily by agriculture. In the Burning Hills agriculture consists of dry land farming and cattle. Rockglen is located along Highway 2 south of Assiniboia, Highway 18 west of Coronach, and Highways 2 and 18 north of Port Poplar River. In addition Rockglen Airport(CKC7) lies 2.2 km east of town.
Vestiges from before the last ice age, a land of hidden treasures, petrified wood and fossils, hammers and arrows of the Assiniboine, Plains Cree, and Blackfoot peoples. But it is the followers of Sitting Bull who left one of the strongest impressions. Following the Battle of Little Bighorn 23,000 Hunkpa Lakota fled to the Wood Mountain Uplands where they were under the protection of the North-West Mounted Police under the command of Major James Morrow Walsh. The hills, first surveyed by the Henry Youle Hind expedition in 1858, were used for hunting by day, and at night fires could be seen of meat being smoked. In 1879 the U.S. Cavalry set fires in Montana that spread and burned the grasslands of Rockglen, causing the ensuing famine and leading to the toponym "The Burning Hills."
It is in these Burning Hills where the Ferbane ranch was located. By 1910 the homestead became a post office, soon German and Austro-Hungarian settlers built homesteads out of tar paper shacks and sod huts. Wood building were built for businesses, such as the pool hall, which also contained the Wesley Methodist church, which became the Wesley United Church of Canada in 1925; Valley City became an unofficial community.
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