Cando is a hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Rosemount No. 378, about 48 kilometres south of North Battleford on Highway 4. It sits along the remains of the historic Swift Current–Battleford Trail. The community took its name from Cando, North Dakota, the original home of Charles Alexander Coulton Edwards, its first postmaster.
Rail service came by way of the Porter Subdivision, a line the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway originally built from Oban to Battleford and which later belonged to Canadian National Railway. The stretch from Battleford to Cando closed in 1974, leaving the section from Oban to Cando. When the elevator at Cando closed, the rest of the line was abandoned in the late 1980s.
Cando was incorporated as a village until December 31, 2005, when it became a hamlet under the RM of Rosemount. Today it is the headquarters of the Mosquito, Grizzly Bear's Head, Lean Man First Nations of the Assiniboine people.
Written from Wikipedia’s article “Cando, Saskatchewan” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.