Lampman, Saskatchewan
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Lampman is a small town of around 735 people, located in the south east part of 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....
roughly 30 miles northeast of Estevan
Estevan, Saskatchewan
Estevan is the eighth largest city in Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located at , which is near the southeastern corner of the province. The Souris River runs by the city. The city is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Estevan No. 5.-History:...
. It is served by the Lampman Airport
Lampman Airport
Lampman Airport, , is located adjacent to Lampman, Saskatchewan, Canada....
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Lampman's water supply is obtained from 2 deep wells and goes through a water treatment system.
Lampman has volunteer ambulance service, volunteer fire department and emergency rescue.
History
The village of Lampman was founded on September 13, 1910. It was named for Canadian poet Archibald LampmanArchibald Lampman
Archibald Lampman, was a Canadian poet. "He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets." The Canadian Encyclopedia says that he is "generally considered the finest of Canada's late 19th-century poets in...
, one of the Confederation Poets
Confederation Poets
"Confederation Poets" is the name given to a group of Canadian poets born in the decade of Canada's Confederation who rose to prominence in Canada in the late 1880s and 1890s. The term was coined by Canadian professor and literary critic Malcolm Ross, who applied it to four poets Charles G.D...
. It gained the status of town on June 1, 1963.