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Vanguard

Village · population 184 · RM of Whiska Creek No. 106

Vanguard town entrance monument with grain bins, 2020 · Awmcphee, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

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Weather in Vanguard

-1° Cloudy Feels like -5° with the wind chill · Wind WNW 15 km/h, gusts 28 · Humidity 82%
  1. Today 2°-10°
  2. Fri 2°-2°
  3. Sat 9°0°
  4. Sun 10°2°
  5. Mon 8°-2°
  6. Tue 10°-4°
  7. Wed 7°

Today: Mainly cloudy with 30 percent chance of flurries. High plus 2. UV index 2 or low.

Normal for today: high 6°, low -6°

  • 10 h 0 min of daylight, 3 min 28 s shorter than yesterday · sunrise 7:52 a.m., sunset 5:52 p.m.
  • Frost likely tonight, low -10°
  • Waning gibbous · the Beaver Moon is full Nov 24
  • On this day: record high 24° in 1968, record low -24° in 1991

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Forecast for the Swift Current area, 54 km away, observed at Swift Current Airport at 2:00 p.m. Forecast and alerts from Environment and Climate Change Canada; water advisories from the Water Security Agency and the Saskatchewan Health Authority, checked at 3:02 p.m..

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Council
Address
Box 187
Vanguard SK S0N 2V0
Hours
Monday to Wednesday: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Vanguard’s history

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Vanguard began in 1910, when the Canadian Pacific Railway bought the land for the townsite from Latimer Young. The community incorporated as a village on July 8, 1912.

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Vanguard town entrance monument with grain bins, 2020
Vanguard town entrance monument with grain bins, 2020Awmcphee, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
The grain elevators, about 1920
The grain elevators, about 1920Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Library, PC011494
Main street with churches and a child, about 1910
Main street with churches and a child, about 1910Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Library, PC014917

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