Lampman was founded as a village on September 13, 1910, in the south-east corner of Saskatchewan, about 30 miles north-east of Estevan. It grew enough to be named a town on June 1, 1963.
The name honours Archibald Lampman, the Canadian poet and one of the Confederation Poets. Lampman is part of what's called "Poet's Corner" in the south-east, where a number of communities and stops along the CN Railway were named for famous British and Canadian poets. Carlyle, Browning, Service, Cowper and Wordsworth are among the others.
Today the town is served by a freight rail line, a grain elevator and two highways, and it has a community complex with a pool, hockey arena, curling rink and baseball diamonds. The Lampman A's baseball team was inducted into the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame on August 18, 2012.
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