Canada A-R Card REGINA to UNITY August 22, 1925, with ADMIRAL 10 cents blue #117

UNITY Post office Founded 1909-04-01
Village established 1909-06-01
Town incorporated 1909-11-01

With the coming of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1908 Unity began to grow from a small settlement in 1904 to about 600 in the 1920s. By 1966 there were 2,154 residents.

Unity is a town in the western part of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan with a population of 2573. Unity is located at the intersection of Highway 14 and Highway 21, and the intersection of the CNR and CPR main rail lines. Unity is located 200 km (125 mi) west-northwest of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and 375 km (235 mi) southeast of Edmonton, Alberta. The town of Wilkie is located 33 km (21 mi) to the east. The town was the subject of playwright Kevin Kerr’s Governor General’s Award-winning play Unity (1918), which dramatizes the effect of the 1918 flu pandemic on Unity. «