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Stranraer, Saskatchewan

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150,000 bushels. The Stranraer School, a municipal heritage site, opened in 1927, replacing an earlier, smaller school that dated back to 1912. The new school had three teachers who taught several grades. As the local population of Stranraer shrunk, enrolment in the school declined and was officially closed in 1969. The town also had a large community hall with a hardwood dance floor. There were two general stores, a hardware store, a garage, and an implement agency with a well equipped machine shop. Stranraer still boasted three Sask Pool plants in the 1978-79 crop year, however, today, there are none remaining.
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Stranraer was established in 1913, but long before the railway came through the district was served by Ferguson brothers' store. When Stranraer was officially incorporated as a village, the Fergusons built the first store. At one point Stranraer boasted four grain elevators with a total capacity of
359:, constructed between 1926 and 1929 and was designated as a Municipal Heritage site and an old school, completed in 1927, that has had the exterior restored with murals, showing Stranraer back in its heyday, covering some of its windows. 393: 703: 405: 659: 351:. The town of Stranraer is located in the Eagle Creek Valley and was home to Twin Towers Ski Resort for thirty years, before it closed in 2009. The town had a 713: 214: 309: 219: 130: 698: 288: 708: 61: 528: 44: 571: 494: 182: 514: 645: 202: 651: 477: 465: 453: 441: 429: 94: 207: 417: 332: 371:
There are a couple historic buildings in Stranraer, including one designated as a Municipal Heritage Property:
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office, grain elevators, a beach volleyball site and picnic grounds, a
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Teacher and students outside of Wynona school near Stranraer, 1909
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Teacher outside of Wynona school, near Stranraer, 1909
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Unincorporated community
United Church in Stranraer
Stranraer is located in Saskatchewan
Stranraer is located in Canada
51°25′48″N 108°17′25″W / 51.4300°N 108.2903°W / 51.4300; -108.2903
Country
Canada
Province
Saskatchewan
Census division
12
Rural Municipality
Mountain View
Municipal
Time zone
CST
Postal code
Area code
Highways
Highway 31
hamlet
Rural Municipality of Mountain View No. 318
Saskatchewan
Highway 31
Kerrobert
Rosetown
Canadian Pacific Railway
Eagle Creek
Stranraer, Scotland
Canadian Pacific Railway

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