RM of Pense’s story
The Rural Municipality of Pense No. 160 traces its beginnings to 1897, when a single township was organized as a local improvement district. In 1904, the small districts gave way to larger ones formed under the Local Improvement District Ordinance of 1903, and the larger LID No. 160 eventually led to the creation of the RM. Pense No. 160 incorporated as a rural municipality on January 1, 1913.
The area filled quickly. By 1923 the RM had grown to 2,227 residents. Farm families were served by a good number of one-room school districts, among them Leamington, Rose Park, Eastview, Fairville, Coulee, Stony Beach, Rocky Lake, Sarawak, Bruceville, Wayside, Kenilworth, Cottonwood, Wellington, Broadway, Coventry, Blink Bonny, Wascana and Fosest. Those schools have since been replaced by consolidated schools and larger school divisions.
Today the RM surrounds the town of Pense and the village of Belle Plaine, and its office is in Pense. The Trans-Canada Highway is one of the main roads among its 600 kilometres of roads. The Nicolle Flats Nature Area of Buffalo Pound Provincial Park lies within the RM and is home to the endangered burrowing owl.
Written from Wikipedia’s article “Rural Municipality of Pense No. 160” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.
