Maple Creek, Saskatchewan 4.85

Maple Creek is a town in Maple Creek Rural Municipality No. 111, Saskatchewan, Canada. The population was 2,084 at the 2016 Census.The town is 103 km southeast of Medicine Hat, Alberta, and 40 km north of the Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park on Highway 21 and 8 km south of the Trans Canada Highway.The administrative headquarters of the Nekaneet Cree First Nation band government is 37 km southeast of Maple Creek.HistoryAfter the North-West Mounted Police had been established at Fort Walsh, settlers began to explore the Cypress Hills area, living along the creeks and doing small-scale ranching. The Department of the Interior was operating a First Nations farm on the Maple Creek, a few miles south from the present town site. In 1882-1883 the First Nations (mainly Cree, Saulteaux, and Assiniboine) were moved to Qu'Appelle, and the farm was then operated by Major Shircliff, an ex-Mounted Policeman.