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Gladmar is a dissolved village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan located north of Highway 18 as it runs east from Highway 6 towards Lake Alma. Gladmar is approximately north of the International Boundary between Canada and the United States. It dissolved from village status to become part of the Rural Municipality of Surprise Valley No. 9 on December 31, 2013. Gladmar is one of two urban communities within the rural municipality, the other one being the village of Minton. The area was settled around the turn of the 20th century, a period when a large number of Norwegians migrated into Saskatchewan from older settlements in the northern United States. As a result, Norwegian-Canadians still represent a substantial proportion of the population in the area today.〔http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/norwegian_settlements.html〕 ==History (1909-1948)== The original village of Gladmar was founded a few miles north of its present location in 1909. * Among the early settlers was J.E. Black who named the settlement ''Gladmar'' after his son Gladstone and his daughter Margaret. * In 1910 the Eidness Brothers obtained a coal lease on land in the Gladmar area from the government, with an annual rent of $1.00 per acre. 〔http://gent-family.com/Bienfait/listofcoalmines.html List of Canadian Coal Mines〕 The first coal from Gladmar Mine was brought out in 1910, on a stone-boat pulled by oxen. The price of coal was $1.75 per ton. * The mine was later sold to the Culberts and then to Ole Ekimo and Lorentz Petterson. * In 1911 Mrs. J. E. Black was established as the settlement's first postmaster and the first mail was brought to Gladmar by Lars Lunde on skis from a small school halfway to Radville. * In 1912 the first General Store was built by the Eidness brothers and the first church service was conducted by Mr. Hoffman in a new 14' by 18' (4.2 x 5.5 m) building in August 1912. * The settlement began organizing a rural municipality and school district in 1912. This resulted in the rural municipality of Surprise Valley being created with Tom Warren as Reeve, J. E Black as councilor and Tom Black as secretary. * In 1913 Violet Hammond was the first teacher of Gladmar's first School. It was located a few miles out of town and served Gladmar and the surrounding area. * This one-room school's official name was Ryeburn Valley and it was established within School District #4264.〔http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cansk/school/Number/4000-4500.html Canadian School List〕 The first recorded burial in the community-operated Gladmar Cemetery was in 1916.〔http://www.saskgenealogy.com/cemetery/cem_rmname.asp Saskatchewan Genealogy website/cemetery listing〕 In 1922 the Gladmar Hall was built and it was then regularly used for community gatherings. * The Canadian Pacific Railway reached Lake Alma in 1926 and Minton in 1929. Olaf Eidness loaded the first car of wheat in Gladmar. Grain elevators were built in Gladmar by Pool in 1929, and by Parish & Heimbecker in 1930. * In 1944 a hospital was constructed to serve Gladmar and the municipalities of Surprise Valley and Lake Alma. * In 1948 a new school was built within the town limits and the first teachers were Mrs. J. Ferguson and Mrs. John Onstad. * *:Historical data are from "History of Gladmar", which was compiled by the Gladmar Community Club in 1955. This was later republished within the book "Homesteading in Surprise Valley" also by the Gladmar Community Club in 1970.〔(Our Roots website )〕 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「Gladmar, Saskatchewan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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