Abernethy, Saskatchewan

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Abernethy is a small community of 213 people in Saskatchewan, Canada, located about one hour east of Regina and one hour west of Yorkton. The current mayor is Bryan Wilkes, and the town council consists of Terry Englot, and Bob Dougherty.

Abernethy is home to the Motherwell Homestead National Historic Site, which is the original homestead of Saskatchewan's first minister of agriculture W.R. Motherwell. Abernethy is primarily an agricultural community although there are currently several business's operating in Abernethy. Among them is a CO-OP grocery store, gas bar, and cafe, Canada Post office, Abernethy Nature Heritage Museum, Tri Way Fertilizer, a licensed restaurant called Cherie's Shack which serves a variety of foods in a Caribbean theme, and two nearby hog barns operated by Hypor International. School Children are bussed to Lemberg and Neudorf in the east and Balcarres in the west because Abernethy School was closed several years ago and due to lack of proper maintenance had to be destroyed in the summer of 2005.

Abernethy celebrated its one hundredth anniversary in the summer of 2004 with a very successful centennial celebration held at the same time as the annual agricultural fair. To the south of Abernethy lies the Qu'Appelle Valley in which Katepwa beach is located. In the summer of 2005 the upcoming movie The Messengers which stars Dylan McDermott, and John Corbett was filmed in the valley south of Abernethy and east of Katepwa.

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