The Canadian Directory of Water Towers and Standpipes is sponsored by "Understanding Your Home" Kamsack - Sakatchewan Photos © Brian Bolduc Tower Information (05-2001) Location: Queen Elizabeth/East Ave. Signage: Kamsack (neon sign) Built: 1915. Decommissioned: 1978 Height: 24.38 m. D: 6.1 m. Capacity: 727,374 liters Tower Information (05-2001) Location: East Dr./Park Street Signage: Kamsack Built: 1978 Height: 26.82 meters Capacity: 1,892,75 liters The tower used to have a peaked roof but it disappeared when struck a cyclone in 1944. A new flat roof was installed with the neon Kamsack sign. For a long time the sign was not used but it was turned back on in November of 204 as a Saskatchewan Centennial project The tower is a Horton Water Spheroid. It is still in use. Alex Gallagher of Fort Erie Ontario was the engineer Area Information The lands around what is now Kamsack were originally settled in the 1880s by a handful of agricultural settlers. The farming area around Kamsack was well settled by 1905. In 1903 the C.N.R. railway and station were built which literally forced the birth of Kamsack. The name Kamsack came from an early post office of the same name, which was located in one of the early settler’s home. August 9, 1944 the "Kamsack Cyclone" ripped through town destroying 400 homes and 100 businesses causing an estimated $2 million in damage.  The rebuilding process began again with the help of the veterans returning from W.W.II. As it turned out, this period turned into the biggest building boom in the town's history. Town of Kamsack Other sites you may be interested in: Thumbnail Collection of USA Water Towers USA Water Towers and Standpipes Magnetic Hills: CA, USA, Worldwide The History of the Christian Fish Symbol UnderstandingYourHome   Home Saskatchewan K index