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Armley, Saskatchewan

Unincorporated community in Saskatchewan, Canada

53°07′01″N 104°02′02″W / 53.117°N 104.034°W / 53.117; -104.034CountryCanadaProvinceSaskatchewanRegionCentral SaskatchewanCensus division14Rural MunicipalityConnaughtGovernment

• ReeveIan Boxall • AdministratorJaime Orr • Governing bodyCannaught No. 457^[1]Area

• Total0.00 km² (0.00 sq mi) • Density0.0/km² (0/sq mi)Time zoneCSTPostal code

S0E 1T0

Area code306HighwaysHighway 3
Highway 35RailwaysCanadian Pacific Railway^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Armley is an unincorporated community in Connaught Rural Municipality No. 457, Saskatchewan, Canada. Approximately halfway between Tisdale and Nipawin, northwest of the intersection of Highway 35 and Highway 335. Armley was the site of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash, killing 16 hockey players and personnel from a team in the city of Humboldt.

History

Coming into existence in the early 1900s as the farming region was settled, Armley reached its peak during the 1920s with the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1924.

With the decline in the rural population of Saskatchewan and the consolidation of businesses and services in larger centres, the townsite now only contains a local community hall and a handful of houses. The former general store, church, post office, hotel and grain elevators are no longer in operation.

References

^ Connaught No. 457 Archived October 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
^ National Archives, Archivia Net, Post Offices and Postmasters, archived from the original on October 6, 2006
^ Government of Saskatchewan, MRD Home, Municipal Directory System, archived from the original on November 21, 2008
^ Canadian Textiles Institute. (2005), CTI Determine your provincial constituency, archived from the original on September 11, 2007
^ Commissioner of Canada Elections, Chief Electoral Officer of Canada (2005), Elections Canada On-line, archived from the original on April 21, 2007