Rosetown's story begins on September 14, 1905, when James and Anne Rose came from Lancashire, England, and became the first settlers in the area. Two years later, a group of local people wanting a post office put in an application and chose to honour the town's most senior settlers by naming it for the Roses. Because the name "Rose" was already taken, they added "town," and the Rosetown post office opened on September 7, 1907. A Jewish colony was also established near Rosetown after 1906.
Early travel in the area followed the Red River Cart Trail known as the "Old Bone Trail" and the historic Swift Current–Battleford Trail. In 1909 Wilrod Bifair sold his homestead to the Canadian Northern Railway at $12 an acre, and Rosetown became a village that year. W.G. King, W.R. Ferguson and N.B. Douglas formed the first village council, which met on September 27, 1909. King also opened the village's first business that year and soon built three more stores. The town grew further in 1910 when the railway track reached Rosetown.
A cyclone destroyed much of the town on June 16, 1923. Rosetown rebuilt, and today its motto, "The Heart of the Wheat Belt," reflects its farming roots. It won the 2004 Provincial Communities in Bloom.
Written from Wikipedia’s article “Rosetown, Saskatchewan” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.