| Official Name: | Rosthern |
| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan#Canada |
| Coordinates: | 52.6639°N -106.3378°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type2: | Rural municipality |
| Subdivision Name2: | Rosthern |
| Established Title: | Post office founded |
| Established Date: | 1893-09-01 |
| Established Title2: | Village established |
| Established Date2: | 1898 |
| Established Title3: | Town incorporated |
| Established Date3: | 1903 |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Dennis Helmuth |
| Leader Title1: | M.P. (Carlton Trail—Eagle Creek) |
| Leader Name1: | Kelly Block |
| Area Total Km2: | 4.31 |
| Population Total: | 1,688 |
| Population As Of: | 2016 |
| Population Density Km2: | 392.0 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | S0K 3R0 |
| Area Code: | 306 |
| Footnotes: | [1] [2] |
| Leader Title2: | M.L.A. (Rosthern-Shellbrook) |
| Leader Name2: | Scott Moe |
| Timezone: | CST |
| Utc Offset: | -6 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
Rosthern is a town at the juncture of Highway 11 and Highway 312 in central Saskatchewan, Canada. It is roughly halfway between the cities of Prince Albert and Saskatoon.
Mennonite settlers, led by Gerhard Ens, began arriving in the area around 1890, with the establishment of the Qu'Appelle, Long Lake & Saskatchewan Railway to Prince Albert.[3] The post office was established in 1893, and by 1898 the community achieved village status. In 1903, Rosthern was incorporated as a town.[4]
There are several apocryphal versions of the story about how the town got its name. One is that in the late 1880s when the railway ran through from Regina to Prince Albert a man by the name of Ross drowned in the creek that flows through the town. Terne is old English for tarn meaning a pool, and the name stuck. In all likelihood, however, the town's name echoes an old world name brought over by a homesick worker on the railroad, in this case that of Rostherne, a village in the United Kingdom.
Rosthern has a public library, many parks and walking trails, Valley Regional Park with an 18-hole grass green golf course, two ball-diamonds, two indoor hockey rinks, a curling rink, bowling alley, and three school gyms. An outdoor swimming pool was completed in 2005. Rosthern is also home to the Youth Farm Bible Camp.
Nearby Rosthern is the Seager Wheeler Farm, a National Historic Site of Canada, and the Rosthern Mennonite Heritage Museum (1909–1910). It is a Municipal Heritage Property on the Canadian Register of Historic Places.[5]
Valley Regional Park,[6] founded in 1974, is a regional park about north-east of Rosthern on the western shore of Rempel Lake. The park has an 18-hole golf course, campground, and picnic area. There is also a 100-foot slide and an 80-foot zip line. The campground has about 80 campsites and modern washrooms and showers. Access to the park is from Highway 11.[7] [8]
Valley Regional Park Golf Club is an 18-hole, par 72 course with grass greens and 6,577 total yards. There is a pro shop, practice green, and a licensed clubhouse.[9]
Rosthern is home to over ten churches including Mennonite, Ukrainian Orthodox, Swedenborgian, Pentecostal, Anglican, Roman Catholic, Ukrainian Catholic, Lutheran, Seventh-day Adventist, Christian & Missionary Alliance, and Baptist.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Rosthern had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 4.14km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[10]