Prairie TownTown ofOgema

Ogema

Town · population 383 · RM of Key West No. 70

The 1912 Canadian Pacific Railway train station, 2017 · Bsellis14, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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0° Chance of flurries Wind NW 6 km/h, gusts 29 · Humidity 86%
  1. Tonight -7°
  2. Fri 2°-2°
  3. Sat 7°1°
  4. Sun 9°2°
  5. Mon 4°1°
  6. Tue 13°-2°
  7. 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°

  • 10 h 1 min of daylight, 3 min 25 s shorter than yesterday · sunrise 7:42 a.m., sunset 5:44 p.m.
  • Frost likely tonight, low -7°
  • Waning gibbous · the Beaver Moon is full Nov 24
  • On this day: record high 24° in 1968, record low -19° in 1991

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Forecast for the Coronach area, 68 km away, observed at Coronach at 7:00 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 8:04 p.m..

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ogema.ca
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Box 369
Ogema SK S0C 1Y0

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Ogema's first settlers arrived in 1908, most of them from Bruce and Huron counties in Ontario, with a few from the United States, Europe and the British Isles. The men went ahead to get the homesteads ready before their families followed. The community was first going to be called Omega, Greek for "end," because it sat at the end of the railway. Authorities said another town already had that name, so two letters were switched and Ogema, an Ojibwe word meaning "Chief," was born. The post office opened under that name in 1911, and the Canadian Pacific Railway sold the town lots.

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The 1912 Canadian Pacific Railway train station, 2017
The 1912 Canadian Pacific Railway train station, 2017Bsellis14, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
The old brick Fire Hall on main street, 2009
The old brick Fire Hall on main street, 2009Andrew Filer, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Ogema School sign, 2017
Ogema School sign, 2017Alexa Lawlor, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Brick school building, Ogema, about 1915
Brick school building, Ogema, about 1915Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Library, PC017592

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