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Davidson is a town in south central Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located 104 kilometres (65 mi) southeast of Saskatoon beside provincial highway 11, in the rural municipality of Arm River. It is located almost exactly halfway between Saskatoon and Regina, and was a popular stopping-off point for travellers before Highway 11 was rerouted east of the town.
More than eighty years ago, Andrew Davidson, an enthusiastic entrepreneur from Glencoe Ontario, came to Saskatchewan in hopes of creating a ‘midway’ settlement between the cities of Regina and Saskatoon. With agriculture as one of his driving passions, Davidson settled in an area where the soil was particularly suitable for grain farming. With the support and cooperation of other settlers in the area, Davidson organized a train route that traveled from Chicago to Saskatoon; making one stop in Davidson on the way by. This train route brought American bankers, entrepreneurs and newspapermen in hopes of starting up new businesses in the…