Burstall, Saskatchewan
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Burstall is a small town
Town
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in southwestern Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....
, Canada
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with a population of approximately 500. During summer the local Lions Club organizes an activity known as Summer Slam. The main economies in the area are natural gas as well as wheat and cattle farming. The area was originally settled by Germans
Germans
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, mostly Lutherans from South Russia
Russia
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. Starting in around 1978, the town committee began a calendar that has everyone's birthday, anniversary and passing noted for each day.
See also
- List of communities in Saskatchewan
- List of towns in Saskatchewan
- Henry Edward BurstallHenry Edward BurstallSir Henry Edward Burstall, was a Canadian general.-Education:Born at Domaine Cataraqui, Quebec City, Quebec, the son of the wealthy merchant John B. Burstall and Fanny Bell Forsyth, daughter of Joseph Bell Forsyth , the first Chancellor of Bishop's University and the builder of Domaine...