Editing Rosthern (section)

== History ==
[[Mennonite]] settlers, led by [[Gerhard Ens]], began arriving in the area around 1890, with the establishment of the [[Qu'Appelle, Long Lake and Saskatchewan Railroad and Steamboat Company|Qu'Appelle, Long Lake & Saskatchewan Railway]] to [[Prince Albert, Saskatchewan|Prince Albert]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Rosthern (Saskatchewan, Canada) |publisher=Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia}}</ref> The post office was established in 1893, and by 1898 the community achieved village status. In 1903, Rosthern was incorporated as a town.<ref name="esask">{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/rosthern.html |title=Rosthern |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan |publisher=Canadian Plains Research Center, [[University of Regina]] |year=2006 |access-date=2016-05-13 |archive-date=2016-04-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418230634/http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/rosthern.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

There are several apocryphal versions of the story about how the town got its name. One is that in the late 1880s when the railway ran through from [[Regina, Saskatchewan|Regina]] to Prince Albert a man by the name of Ross drowned in the creek that flows through the town. ''Terne'' is old English for tarn meaning a pool, and the name stuck.<ref>{{Citation |last=Russell |first=E. T. |title=What's in a Name? |publisher=Western Producer Prairie Books |year=1975 |location=Saskatoon, Sk |pages=276 |isbn=1-894022-92-0}}</ref> In all likelihood, however, the town's name echoes an old world name brought over by a homesick worker on the railroad, in this case that of [[Rostherne]], a village in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{Citation |last=Barry |first=Bill |title=People Places Contemporary Saskatchewan Placenames |publisher=Print West communications |year=2003 |location=Regina, Canada |pages=230 |isbn=1-894022-92-0}}</ref>