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

Educate Yourself

One of the most important things to remember when searching for your family lines is that it is a Process of Self Growth. Researching the branches of our personal family tree take us on a journey to other times and places. Even if we start out with NO passion for history the journey through time will eventualy lead to having at least a basic knowledge of historical facts as they pertain to our family history.

I for one never thought that I would delve into the realm of history. In high school I found it horribly boring and often skipped history class all together. But look at me now. I think it was the dictate of the course outline or perhaps I just had no interest at all. When starting out on researching my family lines it was not long till I had questions which I NEEDED ANSWERS TO. I started asking my father for more information and found that little was known. It was not until I started reaching further and found it necessary to actually read a history book. Surprise, Surprise ! Finding ones family roots in written works, stimulates the reader. I bacame an glutton for reading old books and those of published genealogists, finding many available online in digital archives. History somehow became a large part of my life and I no longer find myself embarassed by my lack of knowledge. It was not long till I found I could hold my own in open discussion and felt proud of my growth.