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14-403: It takes the name from the town of Gravelbourg , and was first described in well Tidewater Eastend Crown No. 1 by R.L. Milner and G.E. Thomas in 1954. The Gravelbourg Formation is divided in two members, Lower and Upper Gravelbourg. The lower member is composed of dolomitic limestone with green shale laminations in the upper part, chalcedonic chert and anhydrite in the lower part and

28-708: A Francophone bishop . In 1998, Pope John Paul II suppressed the residential diocese, so that it is now a titular see . The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption was at that time designated a "co-cathedral" of the Archdiocese of Regina . Lorne Calvert , the 13th Premier of Saskatchewan , was the minister of the United Church of Canada in Gravelbourg. There are also the Gravelbourg Lutheran Church and

42-468: A basal shale bed with fish scales and anhydrite. The upper Gravelbourg consists of dark shale with sandstone and argillaceous limestone stringers and a tan mudstone bed at the top. The Gravelbourg Formation reaches a maximum thickness of 60 metres (200 ft) in the Williston Basin . At its type locality in southwestern Saskatchewan , it is 27 metres (90 ft) thick. It thins out westwards at

56-525: Is Jody Lehmann. The Convent of Jesus & Mary (Past: Gravelbourg Elementary School), is now home to the GCMC (Gravelbourg Community Music Centre). The town has for the past four decades been noteworthy for College Mathieu , a francophone boarding school for boys and girls who wish to acquire or retain fluency in French. The College offers courses such as welding, nursing and early childhood education. The high school

70-588: Is also referenced in the fourth verse of the North American version of " I've Been Everywhere ", written by Geoff Mack and made popular in North America by Hank Snow and more recently Johnny Cash . Gravelbourg was settled in the early 1900s and was one of the French block settlements of the Gravelbourg- Lafleche - Meyronne area in southwestern Saskatchewan, In 1930 it became the cathedral city of

84-587: 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

98-467: Is now named École Mathieu de Gravelbourg and is run by Le CÉF. The school has attracted students from throughout the southern part of the province as well as other areas of Canada and overseas, notably Africa. It offers classes from Grade 8 to 12. École Beau-Soleil offers K to Grade 7 in French. From 1930 to 1998 the town was the cathedral city of the Roman Catholic diocese of Gravelbourg, headed by

112-410: Is the subject of a short documentary Les Fransaskois , produced for the documentary series The Grasslands Project . Other languages spoken in Gravelbourg were: Bisayan languages (5), Chinese (10), Dutch (5), German (15), Korean (5), Lao (5), Spanish (5), Swahili (5) and Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) (50). École Gravelbourg School (Grades K to 12) is located on 1st ave in Gravelbourg. The principal

126-580: The 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Gravelbourg had a population of 986 living in 438 of its 482 total private dwellings, a change of -9% from its 2016 population of 1,083. With a land area of 3.12 km (1.20 sq mi), it had a population density of 316.0/km (818.5/sq mi) in 2021. In the 2011 Canada Census, out a total of 1,116 residents 625 chose English while 300 chose French as their mother tongue. Thirty nine percent or 430 residents spoke both English and French. Gravelbourg's French-language Fransaskois community

140-900: The Reston Formation in Manitoba and parts of the Nesson Formation in North Dakota and Montana , while the Upper Gravelbourg is equivalent to the lower Melita Formation in southeastern Manitoba and the Tampico Shale of the Piper Formation in North Dakota and Montana. Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan Gravelbourg ( / ˈ ɡ r æ v əl b ər ɡ / ) is a small multicultural town in south-central Saskatchewan , Canada. It

154-422: The Roman Catholic diocese of Gravelbourg. Gravelbourg carries the name of its founder Abbé Louis-Pierre Gravel . Louis-Pierre Gravel was designated a Person of National Historic Significance in 1956. The inscription on the monument in Gravelbourg built in 1958 to honour him reads: "Between 1906 and 1926 more than ten thousand Canadian citizens, many of whom were then living in the United States, answered

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168-488: 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." Parks Canada Gravelbourg celebrated its centennial in 2006. Gravelbourg celebrates its many cultures at its annual Summer Solstice Festival d'été Archived 8 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine . A number of heritage buildings are located within

182-596: The community. Our Lady of the Assumption Roman Catholic Cathedral , the former Convent of Jesus and Mary and the former Bishop's Residence were designated the Gravelbourg Ecclesiastical Buildings National Historic Site of Canada in 1995. Gravelbourg Court House, College Mathieu Pavilion, Gravelbourg Post Office, Gaiety Theatre and Canadian National Railway Station are also listed heritage sites. In

196-635: The eastern flank of the Sweetgrass Arch in southern Alberta and eastwards into southwestern Manitoba . The Gravelbourg Formation is conformably overlain by the Shaunavon Formation . It conformably overlies the Watrous Formation in Manitoba and southeastern Saskatchewan , and unconformably overlays the Madison Group in south-eastern Alberta . The Lower Gravelbourg is equivalent to

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