Prairie TownTown ofNokomis

Nokomis

Town · population 414 · RM of Wreford No. 280

Main Street with Hotel Nokomis, about 1910 · Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Library, PC014819

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2° Mainly cloudy Wind WNW 22 km/h, gusts 28 · Humidity 77%
  1. Tonight -4°
  2. Fri 1°-5°
  3. Sat 9°2°
  4. Sun 9°2°
  5. Mon 7°-3°
  6. Tue 11°-3°
  7. Wed 7°

Tonight: Mainly cloudy. Fog patches developing near midnight. Wind west 20 km/h becoming light this evening. Low minus 4. Wind chill minus 9 overnight.

Normal for today: high 3°, low -6°

  • 9 h 52 min of daylight, 3 min 41 s shorter than yesterday · sunrise 7:47 a.m., sunset 5:39 p.m.
  • Frost likely tonight, low -4°
  • Waning gibbous · the Beaver Moon is full Nov 24
  • On this day: record high 17° in 2008, record low -20° in 1984

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Forecast for the Last Mountain Lake (Sanctuary) area, observed at Last Mountain at 3:00 p.m. Forecast and alerts from Environment and Climate Change Canada; water advisories from the Water Security Agency and the Saskatchewan Health Authority, checked at 3:53 p.m..

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Nokomis SK S0G 3R0

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Nokomis began in 1904, when the area opened to homesteading in what was then the Northwest Territories. By 1906 Florence Mary Halstead had set up a post office on the family farm and named it Nokomis, after a character in Longfellow's poem The Song of Hiawatha. When the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway arrived, the townsite, first called Junction City in the hope that it would become the largest city in Western Canada, asked to have the post office moved into town. Halstead agreed on the condition that the town take her post office's name, and in 1908 it became Nokomis.

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Fire in the town of Nokomis, February 3, 1921
Fire in the town of Nokomis, February 3, 1921Kilroe, via Wikimedia Commons
Ox team and wagon outside the North American Lumberyard, May 28, 1912
Ox team and wagon outside the North American Lumberyard, May 28, 1912Unknown author Unknown author, via Wikimedia Commons
Main Street with Hotel Nokomis, about 1910
Main Street with Hotel Nokomis, about 1910Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Library, PC014819
Post office and Main Street buildings, about 1910
Post office and Main Street buildings, about 1910Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Library, PC042534

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