Official Name: | Truax |
Other Name: | Schuett and Schuettville |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan#Canada |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Elmsthorpe No. 100 |
Leader Title2: | Governing body |
Leader Title3: | MLA |
Leader Title4: | MP |
Established Title: | Post office Founded |
Established Date: | 1907-07-01 |
Established Title2: | Incorporated (village) |
Established Date2: | September 9, 1912 |
Established Title3: | Dissolved |
Established Date3: | December 30, 1970 |
Population Blank1: | 12 |
Timezone: | CST |
Coordinates: | 49.9°N -161°W |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0H 4A0 |
Area Code: | 306 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Website: | https://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/groups/14067285423?ap=1 |
Footnotes: | [1] |
Truax is an unincorporated community in the Rural Municipality of Elmsthorpe No. 100, Saskatchewan, Canada. It held village status prior to December 30, 1970.[2] Truax is located 80km (50miles) southwest of Regina and approximately 75km (47miles) southeast of Moose Jaw.
Truax was incorporated as a village on September 9, 1912. Originally named Schuett in honour of an early homesteading family, it was re-named Truax in celebration of Reuben Eldridge Truax, an Ontario businessman and politician.[3]
Truax's first overseer (mayor) was F.A. Bennett and the first secretary-treasurer was Joseph Duck.
Until the early 1920s, the municipal office, village office, Bank of Hamilton, and fire hall were housed in one building. This building burned in February 1923, causing the loss of most of the early records of Truax.
Truax is situated almost equidistant between Radville and Moose Jaw on the Canadian National Railway line that was closed by CN in the late 1980s. Southern Rails Cooperative, a farmer-owned cooperative, took over operation of the line, and it still operates today, with farmers loading their grain directly into rail cars, bypassing the grain companies, and shipping directly to port. The rail line terminates at the Truax grain elevator, built in 1964 and now given Saskatchewan Heritage status.
At its peak, Truax had a lumberyard, a gas station, a hardware store, a school, an indoor rink and a curling rink, and two churches (Anglican and Roman Catholic). The gas station and convenience store closed in the mid 1980s. St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church is no longer open, but when it was mass was held every Saturday night at 7:00 in the winter, and 7:30 in the summer. St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church was decommissioned as an official Roman Catholic Church on Sunday, June 25, 2012.
Truax was reverted to hamlet status on December 31, 1970, and came under the jurisdiction of the Rural Municipality of Elmsthorpe No. 100 in 2002.