Official Name: | Osler |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | CAN SK Corman Park#Saskatchewan |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Osler in Saskatchewan |
Coordinates: | 52.37°N -106.54°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Metropolitan area |
Subdivision Type3: | Rural municipality |
Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Name2: | Saskatoon |
Subdivision Name3: | Corman Park No. 344 |
Established Title: | Post office established |
Established Date: | 1891 |
Established Title2: | Founded |
Established Date2: | 1892 |
Established Title3: | Town incorporated |
Established Date3: | 1985 |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Abe Quiring[1] |
Leader Title1: | Governing body |
Leader Name1: | Osler Town Council |
Area Land Km2: | 1.55 |
Population Total: | 1,237 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Density Km2: | 796.5 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0K 3A0 |
Area Code: | 306 |
Website: | Official Site |
Footnotes: | [3] [4] |
Timezone: | CST |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank Info: | Highway 11 |
Osler is a town in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, founded in the 1890s. The community was named after Sir Edmund Boyd Osler (1845–1924), who was an Ontario-based explorer, railroad financier, and Member of Parliament.
The town has a library, seniors' centre, volunteer fire department, gas station, grocery store, first responders, leisure centre, two schools, and four churches. Osler is about 20 km north of Saskatoon.
Osler was built along the historic Qu'Appelle, Long Lake and Saskatchewan Railroad after surveying starting in 1890 by the engineering firm of Osler, Hammond and Nanton.[5]
In 1892 the station house was built. The town of Osler came into existence soon after and became one of many towns and villages to spring up along the new railroad. Osler officially became a village on April 9, 1904, and stayed a village until May 1, 1918, when it became a Hamlet. Then, in 1949 it was upgraded to organized Hamlet status. Osler became a village for a second time in 1968, and was officially designated Town of Osler in 1985.[6]
By the 1970s the railroad station had fallen into disuse and it was demolished by Canadian National Railway in 1973.[5]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Osler had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 1.62km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[7]