RM of Humboldt’s story
The Rural Municipality of Humboldt No. 370 incorporated on January 1, 1913. It lies in central Saskatchewan along Highways 5 and 20, and it surrounds the city of Humboldt.
The area's story reaches back well before that. In 1876 a telegraph station was built on the original site of Humboldt as part of the Dominion Telegraph Line, which linked Eastern Canada with Selkirk, Fort Livingstone, Clark's Crossing, Battleford, Edmonton and British Columbia. It stood along the Carlton Trail. The site began with two cabins: one held the telegraph and was home to George Weldon and his family, and the second, Ducharme House, was the residence of his assistant Joe Ducharme. The Humboldt Telegraph Station Site is now a designated heritage property.
The RM's other designated heritage property is Marysburg Assumption Church, in the former hamlet of Marysburg. The Roman Catholic church was built of brick in 1921 in the Romanesque Revival style and seats up to 400.
Besides Marysburg, the RM includes the localities of Carmel and Fulda, as well as Humboldt Beach, which was dissolved as a village on February 1, 1947. The RM office is in Humboldt.
Written from Wikipedia’s article “Rural Municipality of Humboldt No. 370” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.
