Aberdeen was first settled in the 1890s and early 1900s by a mix of newcomers. Many were born in Eastern or Atlantic Canada and were largely of English or Scottish ancestry. Ukrainian immigrants arrived in 1898 and 1899, and Mennonites from Manitoba came in 1901.
The community was originally called Dueck. It was organized as the hamlet of Aberdeen in 1904 and named in honour of Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, who founded the National Council of Women of Canada while she was viceregal consort from 1893 to 1898.
The Canadian Northern Railway reached the town in 1904, and the railway soon proved vital for selling wheat. In 1908 alone, 120 rail cars of hard wheat were shipped out. Business on Main Street peaked in the early 1930s, but a fire in 1937 largely destroyed it.
Today Aberdeen is home to the Aberdeen Recreation Complex, which opened in the fall of 2005 and hosts the Aberdeen Flames and the Knights Senior Hockey Club. The town is also home to Farm in the Dell, a community organization that supports people with disabilities in a rural farm-like setting.
Written from Wikipedia’s article “Aberdeen, Saskatchewan” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.