Nearby: Abernethy
This 200 resident community, east of Regina, was founded in 1882 by William Richard Motherwell.
He received a land grant moving from Ontario and began a career in Canadian politics in the early 1900s.
He helped found the Territorial Grain Growers Association and later became Saskatchewan’s minister of
agriculture (1905-1918) and rose to become the federal minister of agriculture in the 1920s.
The community is named in 1884 after a place in Perthshire, Scotland (southeast of Perth) by the Reverend Alexander Robinson.
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Attractions
Motherwell Homestead National Historic Site
8 km SW on Highway 22
306-333-2116
Lanark Place, the restored 10 room homestead of William Richard Motherwell, was a stone-built Italianate farmhouse,
typical of Motherwell’s Ontario roots. The building, its furnishings and the grounds are maintained as they were
in the 1910-1914 period. Allow yourself an hour. pm, Victoria day to Thanksgiving.
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