Bienfait


Bienfait is a town in Saskatchewan on Highway 18 that is 14 km east of Estevan. It is 30 km northwest of the town of North Portal, which is next to the Canadian-American border and is also 10 km south of Estevan. Bienfait has one school, restaurant, and gas station.

History

Bienfait was incorporated as the Village of Bienfait on April 16, 1912. It became a town on March 1, 1957 and was named by the Canadian Pacific Railway after Antoine Charles Bienfait, a banker with Adolphe Boissevain & Company of Amsterdam since the firm had been involved in the sale of Canadian Pacific shares in Europe.
In 1931, striking coal miners marched from Bienfait to nearby Estevan, which resulted in the Estevan Riot.

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