RM of Corman Park’s story
The Rural Municipality of Corman Park No. 344 surrounds the City of Saskatoon in central Saskatchewan. It was created by joining together three older rural municipalities: Cory No. 344, Warman No. 374 and Park No. 375. Those three were disbanded on December 31, 1969, and Corman Park was incorporated the next day, January 1, 1970.
The land holds much older history. Opimihaw, now known as Wanuskewin Heritage Park, is a 58-hectare property in the Opimihaw Creek valley with 14 precontact archaeological sites. It is one of two designated heritage properties in the municipality. The other is the Bone Trail. In the 1800s, buffalo bones were gathered on the prairie and hauled along this trail to Saskatoon, where they were loaded onto rail cars bound for eastern Canada and crushed into fertilizer.
Today the municipality works closely with the Meewasin Valley Authority to protect the South Saskatchewan River valley. It is home to the Cranberry Flats Conservation Area and the Borden Bridge Recreation Site, and it runs its own police service in partnership with the RCMP.
Written from Wikipedia’s article “Rural Municipality of Corman Park No. 344” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.
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