Rouleau, Saskatchewan
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Rouleau Template:IPAc-en is a town in southern Saskatchewan, Canada, on the Canadian Prairies. It lies within census Division No. 6 and Rural Municipality of Redburn No. 130.
As of 2021, the population was 505 (a decrease of 6.5 percent from the 2016 census), in an area of Template:Convert. Rouleau is on Highway 39 and is about Template:Convert southwest of Regina.
The town was notably the filming location of the popular Canadian sitcom Corner Gas, depicting the fictitious town of Dog River.
History
A post office was established at Rouleau in the provisional District of Assiniboia, North West Territories, as early as April 1, 1895. It incorporated as a village on July 23, 1903.
Rouleau was named after Charles Borromée Rouleau. Rouleau was a magistrate in Battleford from 1883 until 1887 and served in the 1st Council of the North-West Territories.<ref>Template:Citation</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
The village is "Saskatchewan's first 1 million bushel town", that is, the first point to ship Template:Convert of grain in one year.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Rouleau had a population of Template:Val living in Template:Val of its Template:Val total private dwellings, a change of Template:Percentage from its 2016 population of Template:Val. With a land area of Template:Convert, it had a population density of Template:Pop density in 2021.<ref name=2021census>Template:Cite web</ref> Template:Canada census
Climate
Corner Gas
The town is best known as the main filming location for the CTV television series Corner Gas. The series' production team built a full-size mock gas station and coffee shop at the western entrance of the town for filming, causing confusion among visitors thinking Corner Gas and The Ruby were real establishments. The town's grain elevator was also repainted with the name "Dog River" as it appears in the background of many episodes of the series.
For an episode which aired in early 2007, then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper stopped in Rouleau to play a cameo role in the television show.
The buildings used as sets for the program were allowed to fall into disrepair after the show wrapped up production.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> They were purchased by an entrepreneur, Sylvain Senecal, who converted them into a museum and souvenir shop.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The set was demolished in November 2016.
On 28 September 2014, the building that was used as the FOO[D] MAR[KE]T, the local grocery store in the series, was destroyed in a fire.<ref name="Corner Gas Building Gutted in Massive Blaze">Template:Cite news</ref> The grain elevator was destroyed in a fire on November 5, 2021, about two weeks after the building used for depicting Dog River's police station collapsed.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Notable people
- Keith Aulie, professional ice hockey defenseman, with EHC Red Bull München in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga.
- Edson Garfield Bahr was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1946 to 1947.
- Ken Doraty, professional hockey player; he was born in Stittsville, Ontario, but moved to Rouleau when he was five.
- Marsha Kennedy, painter and instructor at the University of Regina.
- Daryl Seaman, businessman and Hockey Hall of Fame member, was born in Rouleau in 1922.
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