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Esterhazy

Town in southeast Saskatchewan, Canada; population (1991) 2,900. It islocated 185 km/115 mi east of Regina and 71 km/44 mi southeast of Yorkton, in the Qu'Appelle River valley. Named for Count Paul Esterhazy, who founded a community of Hungarians to the south in 1886, it developed as the centre for a mixed farming region. In the 1950s one of the largest potash mines in North America opened here. Dairying and grain storage and processing are also important industries.



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