RM of Elmsthorpe’s story
The Rural Municipality of Elmsthorpe No. 100 was incorporated on December 12, 1910. It lies in the southeast part of Saskatchewan, and its municipal office is in the village of Avonlea, which the RM surrounds. Agriculture is its main industry.
Several heritage properties recall the early decades. The Claybank Brick Plant, built between 1912 and 1914 in the hamlet of Claybank, is now a national historic site. Over the years it operated under a series of names: Saskatchewan Clay Products, Dominion Fire Brick and Pottery Company, Dominion Fire Brick and Clay Products Ltd., and A.P. Green Refractories Ltd. Claybank is also home to St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, built in 1928.
Out in the countryside, the Crystal Hill School was built in 1930 as a one-room school, following a Waterman-Waterbury Company design, and served students until 1954. It is now the Crystal Hill Community Centre. In the hamlet of Truax, which was dissolved as a village in 1970, stands Saskatchewan Wheat Pool Elevator #292, built in 1964.
The landscape includes the Dirt Hills, the Avonlea Badlands, Avonlea Creek and the Watson Reservoir.
Written from Wikipedia’s article “Rural Municipality of Elmsthorpe No. 100” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.
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