Weyburn Airport
Weyburn Airport, (TC LID: CJE3), is located 2.2 nautical miles (4.1 km; 2.5 mi) northeast of Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada.
During World War II the aerodrome was constructed in 1941 as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan graduated 1,055 pilots and recorded more than 180,000 hours of flight time over the before being abandoned in June 30, 1944. Other uses included a children's physiological hospital in the 1950s and the home of the Western Christian College from 1957 until 1989. Some of the original hangars are still in existence.
Two runways remain in operation, while runway 18/36 is abandoned.
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Weyburn
Weyburn (Assiniboine: ošų́kyuze) is the ninth-largest city in Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located on the Souris River 110 kilometres (68 mi) southeast of the provincial capital of Regina and is 70 km (43 mi) north from the North Dakota border in the United States. The name is reputedly a corruption of the Scottish "wee burn," referring to a small creek. The city is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Weyburn No. 67.
History
The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) reached the future site of Weyburn from Brandon, Manitoba in 1892 and the Soo Line from North Portal on the US border in 1893. A post office opened in 1895 and a land office in 1899 in anticipation of the land rush which soon ensued. Weyburn was legally constituted a village in 1900, a town in 1903 and finally as a city in 1913. From 1910 until 1931 the Weyburn Security Bank was headquartered in the city.
Weyburn had since become an important railroad town in Saskatchewan – the Pasqua branch or the Souris, Arcola, Weyburn, Regina CPR branch; Portal Section on the CPR / Soo Line; Moose Jaw, Weyburn, Shaunavon, Lethbridge CPR section; the Brandon, Marfield, Carlyle, Lampman, Radville, Willow Bunch section of the Canadian National Railway (CNR); and the Regina, Weyburn, Radville, Estevan, Northgate CNR section have all run through Weyburn.
Weyburn (electoral district)
Weyburn was a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1917 to 1949.
This riding was created in 1914 from parts of Assiniboia, Qu'Appelle and Regina ridings
It was Tommy Douglas' riding from 1935 until he left Parliament to enter provincial politics in 1944.
It was abolished in 1947 when it was redistributed into Moose Mountain and Qu'Appelle ridings.
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