Prairie TownHamlet ofAmsterdam

Amsterdam

Hamlet · population 30 · RM of Buchanan No. 304

View across Crystal Lake, Crystal Lake, 12 km away, 2011 · Lyo596, via Wikimedia Commons · CC0

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Weather in Amsterdam

2° Cloudy Wind WSW 15 km/h, gusts 28 · Humidity 84%
  1. Tonight -4°
  2. Fri 2°-4°
  3. Sat 9°2°
  4. Sun 9°2°
  5. Mon 7°-3°
  6. Tue 11°-3°
  7. Wed 7°

Tonight: Mainly cloudy. Fog patches developing near midnight. Wind west 20 km/h becoming light this evening. Low minus 4. Wind chill minus 9 overnight.

Normal for today: high 3°, low -6°

  • 9 h 51 min of daylight, 3 min 43 s shorter than yesterday · sunrise 7:37 a.m., sunset 5:29 p.m.
  • Frost likely tonight, low -4°
  • Waning gibbous · the Beaver Moon is full Nov 24

No weather alerts or drinking water advisories right now.

Forecast for the Canora area, 13 km away, observed at Yorkton Airport at 5:00 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 5:49 p.m..

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RM of Buchanan office

Council
Office
200 George Wilson Drive
Buchanan SK S0A 0J0
Mail
Box 10
Buchanan SK S0A 0J0
Hours
Monday to Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Amsterdam’s history

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Amsterdam is a hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Buchanan No. 304, about 64 kilometres north of Yorkton and 1.5 kilometres west of Highway 9. It was founded at the turn of the 20th century by Dutch immigrants, and that is where the name comes from.

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