A Brief History of Kindersley – Written by Ron Baker
Imagine a little over a century ago. A sparsely treed area of Saskatchewan - with no real lakes or resort potential - is opened for settlement. A flood of youth, immigrants and some enterprising entrepreneurs start overland to reach the promised land. A description by an early homesteader in 1909 suggests that Kindersley was well on the way to becoming a thriving town even before it was incorporated in 1910: There is a hotel, pool room and a place to pass time There are places to buy and sell and for playing cards Houses of all sorts and five lumber yards [...]