Earl Grey was first settled in 1901 by Paul Henderson, the younger brother of Jack Henderson, the hangman of Louis Riel. Paul Henderson died from exposure in 1903, and other settlers followed in the years after.
The community incorporated as a village on July 27, 1906. It was named Earl Grey after Albert Grey, the 4th Earl Grey, who was Canada's Governor General at the time.
The village was once home to a thriving grain economy, and a small statue of a grain elevator in the downtown area pays tribute to that past. Today Earl Grey has two churches, a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, several old-age homes, a hotel, a curling rink and a veterinary clinic. The public school was cut back to Kindergarten to Grade 8 in the 2003–2004 school year and closed completely in 2007.
Written from Wikipedia’s article “Earl Grey, Saskatchewan” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.