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Calder is a village located in Calder Rural municipality No. 241 in south-eastern Saskatchewan, Canada. The population was 80 in the 2006 census. After the 2011 census, the population had risen to 97, an increase of 21%. The village lies approximately 56 km east of Yorkton, Saskatchewan and 35 km west of Roblin, Manitoba, approximately 5 km south of Highway 8 Highway 10. ==History == The history of Calder goes back to 1888, when a number of Icelanders and others settled just to the south of the present village, calling it the "Logberg" district or "Logberg of the Northwest Territories". By the year 1897, the Icelanders and their other neighbors were quite comfortably settled when a group of Ruthenians from the Austrian provinces of Bukovina and Galicia started arriving by rail between 1897–1898 at Saltcoats. Government agents escorted the new settlers to quarter sections of land where they homesteaded within a five to ten mile radius of the present site of Calder. Additional Romanian immigrants from Bucovina continued to homestead remaining sections south of Calder between 1899–1905. In the fall of 1910, the Canadian Northern Railway came through and called the site "Third Siding West of Shellmouth". The rail reached the homestead of Mike Rohatensky before halting construction for the winter months. A railway loop was built in Calder where the train turned and journeyed back to Russell. A petition dated October, 1910 for incorporating a village was signed by 13 local business leaders and by January 18, 1911 permission was granted for incorporating a village named after MLA James Alexander Calder. The first elections to form a town council were held on January 6, 1911. In 1929, the Calder Electric Company brought electric power to the village and several street lamps were erected. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Calder, Saskatchewan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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