Tisdale, Sask, Town, pop 3063 (2001c), 2966 (1996c), 3045 (1991c), area 4.62 km², inc 1920, is located at a CNR-CPR junction, 135 km southeast of Prince Albert. Originally called Doghide after nearby Doghide Creek (1902), it was renamed to honour Frederick W. Tisdale, a railway civil engineer, when the CANADIAN NORTHERN RY reached the community (1904). Situated on the dark soils of the aspen parkland region of the province, it grew gradually as a retail service centre for what became one of Saskatchewan's better mixed-farming districts. It has also always possessed some agriculturally related industries: first, a flour mill and creamery; later, Saskatchewan's first honey processing co-operative; and today, an alfalfa dehydrator and fabricators of grain bins, environmental tanks and egg trays. The Tisdale and District Museum has a collection of buildings and machinery from the early days of settlement.