Haultain Block Party 2024Big thanks to Ken Dahl, the Assistant City Archivist for providing some great information and images.
Haultain Avenue runs south from Taylor Street in southeast Nutana. Before 1954 it was called 10th Avenue. The street, and the district it is in, remember Sir Frederkick William Gordon Haultain (1857-1942), who was first elected to the Territorial Council in 1887, representing Fort MacLeod in what is now Alberta.
He was the head of the territorial government from 1891 to 1905. From 1905 to 1912, he represented South Qu'Appelle in the Saskatchewan legislature.
Appointed chief justice of Saskatchewan in 1912, he retired in 1937.
Frederick Haultain was a member of the University of Saskatchewan senate from 1906 to 1917 and then became chancellor. He is laid to rest at the Memorial Gates leading into the university campus.
Haultain School was also named for him.
From “Saskatoon’s History in Street Names” written by John Duerkop
Written by Ken Dahl
Assistant City Archivist
City of Saskatoon
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To start, I found some early material from the Haultain Ratepayers Association (these pages are in the attached pdf folder), these documents date from 1938 to 1949. There is correspondence from the ratepayers requesting certain improvements to the area, the letters are mainly relating to roads and sidewalks, sewer and water lines, as well as street lights.
There are certain requests for the roads to be “cindered” so it wouldn’t be so muddy (the cinders, I am told are the size of small gravel, and they came from the City power station and the numerous trains that ran through the city). I have also attached three pages from our Fire Insurance plan series, these pages date from 1950.
I like these Fire Insurance plans in that they show what houses and buildings were there at that time, sheet #402 shows the area near Broadway Ave and south of 7th St. E, at this time this area is becoming more developed. Sheets #431 and #432 are heading east and there is less and less development as you head east and south. Sheet #431 shows Haultain Public School at 5th Street and Albert Avenue.
I have also attached three different aerial photographs, ranging in date from 1927 to 1974, here again, you can see the evolution of the area over the years.
In 1927, you can see Broadway Avenue in the upper left hand portion of the photograph (and 8th Street runs horizontally through the middle of the image). East of Broadway, and south of 8th Street there is very little development in 1927, very few streets are actually in place at this time.
By 1954 there is much more development, you can see Albert School on Clarence Avenue, as well as Haultain School on Albert Avenue. 8th Street is a little more defined (and developed) that drive-in movie site you see is on the northeast corner of 8th St and Preston Avenue.
You can see the U of S experimental fields at the top of the photograph. Cumberland Avenue is not yet fully completed as it runs south to 8th Street.
By 1974, you can see that the area is fully developed, 8th Street is becoming the commercial strip that we know today. Aden Bowman Collegiate is evident, as is J.S. Wood Library and the adjacent swimming pool.
-Written by Ken Dahl
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Some interesting details about our neighbourhood that were published by the city of Saskatoon in a document called Neighbourhood Profiles 2019.
Click here to download the PDF.
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I don't have any ties to this company, I found this article from a google search and thought it was great so I'm posting it here.
https://sladerealestate.ca/saskatoon-neighbourhood-haultain/
Haultain is a mostly residential neighbourhood located in south-central Saskatoon. It is a suburban subdivision, consisting mostly of low-density, single detached dwellings. As of 2007, the area is home to 2,742 residents. The neighbourhood is considered a middle-income area, with an average family income of $47,890, an average dwelling value of $201,503 and a home ownership rate of 59.3%. According to MLS data, the average sale price of a home as of 2013 was $316,411.
Location – Haultain is located within the Nutana Suburban Development Area. It is bounded by 8th Street to the north, Taylor Street to the south, Broadway Avenue to the west, and Wiggins Avenue to the east. Roads are laid out in a grid fashion; streets run east-west, avenues run north-south.
History – The west half of Haultain was within the city limits when it incorporated; the land east of Clarence Avenue was annexed by the city between 1910 and 1919. A 1913 map shows that the present-day Haultain area overlaps two registered subdivisions of the day: the Broadway Addition in the west and Victoria Park in the east. Haultain School was opened in 1924, and named in honour of Sir Frederick Haultain, former Commissioner of Education and later first Premier of the Northwest Territories.
The school’s first principal was Miss Victoria Miners. In 1936, she received a Master of Education, making her the first woman in Saskatoon and only the second woman in Canada to earn that degree. When the school was first constructed, it was on the outskirts of Saskatoon. Many homes had no running water – it was delivered by water truck and residents could purchase pails of water. The school provided Monday morning baths in the school basement, and several homes still had outhouses until plumbing was established.
Street railway bus service to Haultain commenced on March 19, 1932. Home construction peaked between 1946 and 1960. Haultain School was renovated in the 1950s, during a period of rapid school planning and building. Lathey Pool officially opened on July 6, 1955. The J.S. Wood branch library opened next to the pool in 1961, and was named in honour of James Stuart Wood, a former chief librarian. Haultain School closed by the 1990s, and was purchased by the francophone school board. It became L’École canadienne-française in 1995 and offered classes from kindergarten to Grade 12. In 2006, Grade 8 to 12 students moved to a new facility, Pavillon Gustave Dubois, in the Nutana Park neighbourhood.
Parks and Recreation – W.W. Ashley Park – 6.9 acres (2.8 ha). W.W. Ashely Park was named after Wyndham Winkler Ashley, a charter member of the Saskatoon Parks Board in 1912. He is credited with the planting of spruce trees in President Murray Park in the Varsity View neighbourhood, and American elms along Saskatchewan Crescent.
Lathey Pool is a public swimming pool that operates during the summer months. Haultain does not have its own community association, but each half is served by one of its neighbouring community association. The Queen Elizabeth Community Association serves west Haultain residents by offering recreational, social, and educational programs for adults, children/youth, and preschoolers. The Holliston Community Association serves the east part of Haultain. It operates programs including sports for children/youth and fitness, recreation and leisure for all ages.
Commercial – The northern border of Haultain includes part of the 8th Street business district. There are also businesses located along Broadway Avenue at Taylor Street. In addition, there are 45 home-based businesses in the neighbourhood.
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