Zenon Park, Saskatchewan - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

History

In 1910 French-American

French American

French Americans or Franco-Americans are Americans of French or French Canadian descent. About 11.8 million U.S. residents are of this descent, and about 1.6 million speak French at home.An additional 450,000 U.S...

settlers arrived and later came immigrants from Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

and Northern United States

Northern United States

Northern United States, also sometimes the North, may refer to:* A particular grouping of states or regions of the United States of America. The United States Census Bureau divides some of the northernmost United States into the Midwest Region and the Northeast Region...

. In 1913 Zenon Park was named officially, after Zenon Chamberland, the postmaster

Postmaster

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. The economy then depended on agriculture

Agriculture

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and lumber

Lumber

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. Alfalfa

Alfalfa

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has also been a successful industry and has greatly helped the economy.

The community has one designated heritage property, the Paroisse Notre Dame de la Nativitie (Our Lady of the Nativity Roman Catholic Church) (previously called the Eglise Notre Dame de la Nativitee) was constructed in between 1930 - 1931 by Filion & Sons Co.

Zenon Park is on the Thunder Rail short-line railway.

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