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Country
  
Canada

Census division
  
9

Time zone
  
CST

Population
  
140 (2011)

Local time
  
Wednesday 5:04 PM

Region
  
Eastern Saskatchewan

Rural Municipality
  
Postal code
  
S0A 0B0

Area code
  
306

Province
  
Arran, Saskatchewan

Weather
  
-12°C, Wind N at 14 km/h, 68% Humidity

Arran (2011 population 40) is a village in Livingston Rural Municipality No. 331, Saskatchewan, Canada, approximately 90 km northeast of Yorkton and 10 km west of the Manitoba border. Arran is located on Highway 49.

Contents

Map of Arran, SK, Canada

History

The area around Arran was part of the "North Reserve", also known as "Thunder Hill Reserve", one of the block settlement areas allocated for the Doukhobor immigrants who arrived here in 1899 from Russia's Transcaucasian provinces.

A commemorative plaque marking the closure of Arran School at the end of the 1994 class year reads:

ARRAN SCHOOL

NO. 3480
SEC. SE. 1-34-31 BUILT - NOV. 1914

A similar sign is posted in front of the school, reading:

ARRAN, NO. 3480

first opened-Nov.30, 1914
Closed-June 30, 1994

Historic sites

  • Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Ascension, 9.5 kilometres southeast of Arran.
  • References

    Arran, Saskatchewan Wikipedia


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