Battleford Rural Municipalities & Places

Understanding terminology of land assignment is essential to researching your ancestors when you are searching for biographic information. The division of land in the Prairie Provinces of Canada which include, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba was done using the method of Assigning Rural Municipalities each having a Number and a Name. The following list of RM Names, Numbers and Communities in The Battleford Region of Saskatchewan serves as an example. The Battleford GenWeb site also hosts a wonderful maps and information on learning the basics of finding your land reference coordinates for your prairie ancestors.

RM Number RM Name Community
318 MOUNTAIN VIEW Herschel
319 WINSLOW Dodsland
319 WINSLOW Plenty
320 OAKDALE Coleville
321 PRAIRIEDALE Major
321 PRAIRIEDALE Smiley
322 ANTELOPE PARK Loverna
347 BIGGAR Biggar
347 BIGGAR Springwater
347 BIGGAR Duperow
347 BIGGAR Big Rose Colony
349 GRANDVIEW Handel
349 GRANDVIEW Kerfield
349 GRANDVIEW Ruthilda
350 MARIPOSA Tramping Lake
350 MARIPOSA Broadacres
351 PROGRESS Kerrobert
351 PROGRESS Luseland
352 HEART'S HILL Cactus Lake
377 GLENSIDE Baljennie
377 GLENSIDE Crane Creek
377 GLENSIDE Lizard Water
377 GLENSIDE Spinney Hill
378 ROSEMOUNT Cando
378 ROSEMOUNT Lett
379 REFORD Landis
379 REFORD Leipzig
379 REFORD Wolfe
380 TRAMPING LAKE Scott
380 TRAMPING LAKE Revenue
381 GRASS LAKE Reward
381 GRASS LAKE Salvador
381 GRASS LAKE Sunny Glenn
382 EYE HILL Denzil
382 EYE HILL Evesham
382 EYE HILL Macklin
382 EYE HILL Primate
382 EYE HILL Gros Werder
382 EYE HILL Cosine
409 BUFFALO Wilkie
410 ROUND VALLEY Adanac
410 ROUND VALLEY Unity
411 SENLAC Senlac
411 SENLAC Rutland
438 BATTLE RIVER Battleford
438 BATTLE RIVER Delmas

Ethnic Settlements - Saskatchewan

The Saskatchewan GenWeb Site hosts a wonderful tool for finding the settlement areas of ethnic groups. Ethnic groups are displayed graphically and visitors are provided with a wonderful map of the settlement blocks. Regardless of the ethnicity of your ancestors establishing the ethnicity of their settlement locations may assist you in your research endeavours. Ethnic publications often contain valuable biographic information including neighbours and friends. Establishing the ethnicity of settlement communities also provide great time line information and assist in the location of information on the history of the settlements.