Unity began as a small settlement in 1904. The big change came in 1908, when the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway arrived and the community started to grow. By the 1920s it had about 600 residents, and by 1966 the number had climbed to 2,154.
Rail has stayed central to the town's story. Unity sits on the Canadian National Railway line, and in 1924 the Canadian Pacific Railway crossed the CN tracks at Topaz, just west of town. Today it is where Highway 14 and Highway 21 meet, and The Canadian, Via Rail's train, calls here several times a week.
The town's past has reached the stage as well: playwright Kevin Kerr's Governor General's Award-winning play Unity (1918) dramatizes how the 1918 flu pandemic affected the community. Visitors can learn more through the history murals downtown and at the Unity & District Heritage Museum. Sink and Gordon Lakes, just west of town, offer wetlands for migratory birds.
Written from Wikipedia’s article “Unity, Saskatchewan” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.