| Baljennie | |
| Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
| Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | West-central |
| Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
| Subdivision Name3: | 12 |
| Subdivision Type4: | Rural Municipality |
| Subdivision Name4: | Glenside |
| Leader Title: | Reeve |
| Leader Name: | Wade Parkinson |
| Leader Title1: | Administrator |
| Leader Name1: | Cheryl Forbes |
| Leader Title2: | Governing body |
| Leader Name2: | Glenside No. 377[1] |
| Leader Title3: | MP |
| Leader Title4: | MLA |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Timezone: | CST |
| Coordinates: | 52.321°N -107.535°W |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Area Code: | 306 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
Baljennie is an unincorporated community in Glenside Rural Municipality No. 377, Saskatchewan, Canada. Its first post office opened in 1891.[2]
Baljennie was named by an early resident, Stephen ('Sandy') Warden,[3] after his daughter Jean, and was originally spelt Baljeanie.[4] Warden, a former officer of the North-West Mounted Police, had established a ranch in the area in the early 1880s, which subsequently became a staging post for mail coaches travelling between Saskatoon and Battleford.[4] A school was opened at Baljennie in August 1912.[5]
The Canadian Pacific Railway extended its line northward from Asquith to Baljennie in 1931.[6] The line between Sonningdale and Baljennie was closed in June 1977.[7]
Baljennie had a population of 76 at the time of the 1951 census,[8] but declined in later years. The school was closed in 1970 and was turned into a community centre.[5] The community's last business closed in 1991, and its derelict Anglican church was destroyed by fire three years later.[9] After several years during which Baljennie was effectively a ghost town, a number of families moved to the town site from 2007 onwards.[9]
In her 1976 song "Coyote", Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, who grew up in Saskatoon, sings "I looked the coyote right in the face/On the road to Baljennie near my old hometown".