Strasbourg sits about 75 kilometres northwest of Regina. The first settlers arrived around 1884, drawn by the rich agricultural soil and plentiful land for pasture. German pioneers settled the area, and the town was incorporated in 1907.
The community was first spelled Strassburg, from the German words for road or street and for castle. In 1919 Canada's Geography department changed the name to the French spelling, Strasbourg, following the renaming of the city of that name in Alsace, France, after Germany lost control of it following World War I.
Today the Strasbourg Recreation Centre, built in 1976, holds an ice rink and a curling rink and is home to the Strasbourg Maroons of the senior men's Highway Hockey League. The town also has a 9-hole golf course and ball diamonds, and the old Strasbourg CPR railway station has been turned into a museum.
Written from Wikipedia’s article “Strasbourg, Saskatchewan” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.