Canada A-R Card READLYN TO GRAVELBOURG February 2, 1928, with ADMIRAL 10 cents bistre brown #118

READLYN is a hamlet in Excel Rural Municipality No. 71, Saskatchewan, Canada. It previously held the status of a village until December 31, 1955. Prior to December 31, 1955, Readlyn was incorporated as a village, and was restructured as a hamlet under the jurisdiction of the Rural municipality of Excel on that date.

GRAVELBOURG
Post office Founded 1907
Incorporated (Town) 1916
Is a small multicultural town in south-central Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located just west of the Wood River at the junction of provincial Highway 43 and Highway 58, approximately 125 kilometres from Moose Jaw, Swift Current, and the United States border. The region served as a path for First Nations peoples many years ago and was also integrated into the Redcoat Trail of the 19th century. Gravelbourg is now a key link on the 21st century Trans Canada Trail. Gravelbourg was settled in the early 1900s and was one of the French block settlements of the Gravelbourg-Lafleche-Meyronne area in southwestern Saskatchewan. Between 1906 and 1926 more than ten thousand Canadian citizens, many of whom were then living in the United States, answered the call of Reverend Louis-Pierre Gravel to make their homes on the broad plains of Saskatchewan where they built towns and established French-speaking cultural institutions. »