Fir Mountain

{{Short description|Hamlet in Saskatchewan, Canada}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2023}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Location map|Canada Saskatchewan|lat=49.230746|long=-106.331654|width=200|caption=Location of Fir Mountain in Saskatchewan|label=Fir Mountain}} thumb|200px|Post office Fir Mountain thumb|200px|Well pump Fir Mountain '''Fir Mountain''' is a hamlet in Saskatchewan, Canada. Access is from Highway 18.

==Etymology== The Fir Mountain school was established in 1913. Local records indicate that Mrs. D. H. Blood, the first postmistress, named it after "her home in the United States", but there is no American community known by that name. Fir Mountain is more likely named after the nearby Wood Mountain hills, which are indeed forested.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Barry|first1=Bill|title=Geographic Names of Saskatchewan|url=https://archive.org/details/geographicnameso0000barr|url-access=registration|date=September 2005|publisher=People Places Publishing, Ltd.|location=Regina, Saskatchewan|isbn=1-897010-19-2|page=143}}</ref>

==In popular culture== * As part of the film series The Grasslands Project, ''A Rancher’s View'' describes raising cattle adjacent to Grasslands National Park where conservation of the Sage Grouse is a priority.<ref name=McCartney>{{cite news|last1=McCartney|first1=Duane|title=Cattle ranchers tell their story in National Film Board project|url=http://www.canadiancattlemen.ca/2016/10/26/cattle-ranchers-tell-their-story-in-national-film-board-project/|access-date=26 October 2016|work=Canadian Cattlemen|date=26 October 2016}}</ref>

== See also == * List of hamlets in Saskatchewan

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Category:Unincorporated communities in Saskatchewan Category:Rural Municipality of Waverley No. 44 Category:Division No. 3, Saskatchewan