Rosetown is a town in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, at the junction of provincial Highway 7 and Highway 4, approximately 115 km southwest of Saskatoon. The town's motto, "The Heart of the Wheat Belt" reflects its history of being a farming community. It is the largest town located in the Rural Municipality St. Andrew's 287, Saskatchewan. Rosetown belongs currently to the federal electoral district of Saskatoon—Rosetown—Biggar which was formerly known as Saskatoon—Rosetown. Rosetown belongs to census division 12 for purposes of enumerating the population which was 2,277 residents in 2006. Rosetown won the 2004 Provincial Communities in Bloom. History On September 14, 1905, James and Anne Rose migrated from Lancashire, England, to an area of Saskatchewan, Canada. They were the first settlers in the area now known as Rosetown. Later, in 1907, a group of people from the area, wanting a post office, made an application for one. As a name had to be given to the post office, the group dedicated it to the town's most senior settlers, the Roses. As the name "Rose" was already taken, the group added "town" to it to create "Rosetown". The post office opened on September 7, 1907. A Jewish colony was established near Rosetown after 1906. Rosetown became a village on August 29, 1909, after Wilrod Bifair sold his homestead for $12 an acre to the Canadian Northern Railway. Village status was granted on August 4, 1909, when the population reached 500 people. W.G. King, W.R. Ferguson, and N.B. Douglas formed the village council in the same year. The first village council meeting was held on September 27, 1909. W.G. King established the first business in the village in 1909. Later that year he built three other stores at different locations. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Rosetown had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Climate Rosetown experiences a semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification BSk). Precipitation is quite low, with the majority of it falling in the summer months. The highest temperature ever recorded in Rosetown was on 4 July 1937. The coldest temperature ever recorded was on 23 January 1943. Education Walter Aseltine School is the elementary school in Rosetown named after a member of parliament Walter Aseltine.