Mr. George
Audley Edward Hyde came to Canada in 1887 with dreams of creating an
aristocratic English estate in the Qu’Appelle Valley. He chose a site not far
from what is now the #47 highway on the north side of the river and called it
the Village of Hyde.
He built a
house and other farm buildings, and east of his home, he erected a small
village.
The small
village consisted of a hotel, store, post office, livery barn, blacksmiths shop,
church, courthouse, icehouse and a wash house. A policeman was stationed
in the village to keep order in the community. Mr. Hyde was also a Justice
of the Peace and presided over cases in the community. Eventually the
majority of residents in Hyde moved away and the buildings were bought, moved,
destroyed, or left to ruin.
