St. Walburg, Saskatchewan

St. Walburg
Town
View of St. Walburg
St. Walburg
Coordinates: 53°38′01″N 109°12′02″W / 53.6335°N 109.2006°W / 53.6335; -109.2006
Country	Canada
Province	Saskatchewan
Census division	Division No. 17
Rural Municipality	Frenchman Butte
Post office Founded	1915
Government
• Mayor	Tony Leeson
• Administrator	Leah Mullis
• MLA Constituency of Meadow Lake	Jeremy Harrison
• MP Battlefords—Lloydminster	Gerry Ritz
Area
• Total	2.12 km2 (0.82 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	716
• Density	338.0/km2 (875/sq mi)
Time zone	CST
Postal code	S0M 2T0
Area code(s)	306
Highways	Highway 26
Website	http://www.stwalburg.com/

St. Walburg is a town located in west-central Saskatchewan's prairie region on Saskatchewan Highway 26. St. Walburg is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Frenchman Butte No. 501. 10 kilometres to the north is the Bronson Provincial Forest.

The town and surrounding area was originally settled mostly by German settlers between the 1910s and 1930s with a few Polish, Ukrainian and French settlers arriving later.

The Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) continued the ongoing extension of its northwest branch line from North Battleford, reaching St. Walburg in 1919. This caused a boom in the area, with many homesteaders arriving within months, now able to deliver their production to the grain elevators at St. Walburg. The branch had served Hamlin, Prince, Meota (1910 extension), Cavalier, Vawn, Edam, Mervin, Turtleford (1914 extension), Cleeves, Spruce Lake and St. Walburg, with a fork to Paradise Hill and Frenchman Butte. The rail line and the later Saskatchewan Highway 26 ran beside each other from Prince to St. Walburg. The Canadian National Railway abandoned the entire branch line in 2005, when the remaining grain elevators closed. The line was officially abandoned in 2008.