Lajord No. 128, Saskatchewan
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Lajord No. 128 is a rural municipality
in south-eastern Saskatchewan
, Canada
encompassing 943.87 square kilometers in area. The rural municipality maintains it's office in Lajord, Saskatchewan . The rural municipality in conjunction with the provincial government is in charge of maintenance of highways in its area. As well, the municipality provides policing, fire protection and municipal governance for the rural district, with a reeve as its administrator.
Rural municipality
A rural municipality, often abbreviated RM, is a form of municipality in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, perhaps best comparable to counties or townships in the western United States...
in south-eastern 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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encompassing 943.87 square kilometers in area. The rural municipality maintains it's office in Lajord, Saskatchewan . The rural municipality in conjunction with the provincial government is in charge of maintenance of highways in its area. As well, the municipality provides policing, fire protection and municipal governance for the rural district, with a reeve as its administrator.
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Heritage Properties
There are three historical building located within the rural municipality:- Church and Grotto in St. Peter's Colony (now called St. Peter's Colony) - Constructed in 1905 as a church an shrine to Shrine of our Lady of Lourdes.
- Kronau Cemetery Site (formerly called Bethlehem Lutheran Church Cemetery; and now called the Kronau Bethlehem Heritage Cemetery) - Constructed in 1896, by early German-Russian Lutherans homesteaders. The cemetery is near the former site of a one room school house where service were held until a church was constructed. The cemetery is located near the hamlet of KronauKronau, SaskatchewanKronau is a hamlet in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Listed as a designated place by Statistics Canada, the hamlet had a population of 209 in the Canada 2006 Census....
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