Willow Bunch is one of the oldest settlements in Saskatchewan. Métis families, many of them of First Nations and French or Scottish descent, began moving into southern Saskatchewan from the Red River area in search of bison. After fires on Wood Mountain in 1879 and 1880, they settled on the eastern slope of the hills at a place they called Talle de Saule, meaning "clump of willow." The willows were useful for everything from baskets and snowshoes to smoking meat, and the name became Willow Bunch. Trader Jean-Louis Légaré opened a store there in 1881, and Édouard Beaupré, later known as the Willow Bunch Giant, was the first child born and baptized in the area that year.
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Weather in Willow Bunch
-1°
Partly cloudy
Feels like -5° with the wind chill · Wind NNE 11 km/h, gusts 29 · Humidity 93%
- Tonight -7°
- Fri 2°-2°
- Sat 7°1°
- Sun 9°2°
- Mon 4°1°
- Tue 13°-2°
- Wed 8°
Tonight: Partly cloudy. 30 percent chance of flurries early this evening. Fog patches developing near midnight. Wind up to 15 km/h. Low minus 7. Wind chill minus 12 overnight.
Normal for today: high 6°, low -6°
- 9 h 59 min of daylight, 3 min 22 s shorter than yesterday · sunrise 7:46 a.m., sunset 5:45 p.m.
- Frost likely tonight, low -7°
- Waning gibbous · the Beaver Moon is full Nov 24
- On this day: record high 21° in 1968, record low -22° in 1984
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Forecast for the Coronach area, 32 km away, observed at Coronach at 2:00 a.m. Forecast and alerts from Environment and Climate Change Canada; water advisories from the Water Security Agency and the Saskatchewan Health Authority, checked at 2:53 a.m..
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- 16 Edouard Beaupre Street East
Willow Bunch SK S0H 4K0 - Box 189
Willow Bunch SK S0H 4K0
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