Dalmeny sits about 27 kilometres north of Saskatoon in the Rural Municipality of Corman Park, and takes its name from Dalmeny, Scotland. The district was first settled around 1900, and many of the early settlers were Mennonites.
The town site took shape in 1904 and 1905, when the Canadian National Railways Carlton branch line and the Winnipeg–Edmonton main line arrived. A year later the post office opened, the first grain elevator went up, and a general store was established.
Growth was slow for decades. That changed in the 1970s, when Dalmeny became known as a bedroom community for people working in Saskatoon, and the population climbed from 417 in 1971 to 1,964 in 1981. The village was incorporated as a town in 1983.
The town's original hockey arena, built in the early 1950s, was replaced with a new one in 2003. Today Dalmeny has its own small police service, which works alongside the RCMP and neighbouring forces.
Written from Wikipedia’s article “Dalmeny, Saskatchewan” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.