RM of Moose Mountain’s story
The Rural Municipality of Moose Mountain No. 63 incorporated on December 11, 1911, in the south-east part of the province. It took its name from the large number of moose that live in the Moose Mountain Uplands, found in the north-west corner of the RM.
Several railway points once dotted the municipality. Cowper, Service and Wordsworth lie along the Canadian National line and are named for famous British and Canadian poets, making them part of what is known as "Poet's Corner" in south-east Saskatchewan. Cowper had a post office from August 1911 until the end of 1915. Fremantle and Steppes were Canadian Pacific points with sidings, platforms and grain elevators that no longer stand. The Glen Adelaide Cemetery dates to 1897. Today the RM surrounds the town of Carlyle and the village of Manor, and its office is in Carlyle.
History is still visible in the north-east corner, in Cannington Manor Provincial Park. There the Church of All Saints, built in 1885, and the Humphrys/Hewlett House, built in 1888, are on the Canadian Register of Historic Places.
The RM also holds Moose Mountain Provincial Park along its northern edge. Nearby on Kippan Lake is Saskairie, set up in 1974 by the Prairie Lore and Living Society, founded in 1972 by Jack MacKenzie, Don Stewart and Nora Stewart. It was created as a year-round outdoor education site for students, and a cabin sleeping 32 was built there in 1977.
Written from Wikipedia’s article “Rural Municipality of Moose Mountain No. 63” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.
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