Arborfield is a town in east-central Saskatchewan, on Highway 23 about 70 kilometres north-east of Melfort and a short distance west of the Pasquia Hills. Its name has a tidy story behind it. In 1910 the community asked for the name Fairfield, but the post office in Ottawa turned it down. Since the request had arrived on Arbour Day, the Post Office asked whether residents would accept Arborfield instead, and they did. It may also have been named for Arborfield, England, the site of an engineering museum.
Schooling began early. On 13 October 1910, settlers in the area met and formed the Arborfield School District No. 2785, and the first school board borrowed $1,000 to build a school in 1911. In 1930 a group of local citizens asked for another district, and the Treasure School District No. 4864 was set up. A few years later the Treasure and Arborfield district names were switched, so the district south of town took the name Treasure and the town's school became Arborfield.
The first two-room school on the present site went up in 1930-31. A fire destroyed it in 1947, and a new six-room school followed in 1948. In 1950 the district joined the Tisdale School Unit No. 53, and rooms were added over the years, including a wing in 1965 and a gymnasium, computer lab and industrial arts shop in the 1980s. Today Arborfield School teaches Kindergarten to Grade 12, and its teams are the Arborfield Blues.
Written from Wikipedia’s article “Arborfield, Saskatchewan” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.