St. Brieux was founded in 1904, when settlers from Brittany, France, took up land in the district. They named the community in memory of Saint-Brieuc, the French town where many of them had come from. Families kept arriving from France until the First World War began in 1914, and St. Brieux remains one of the few French-speaking communities in Saskatchewan.
Others followed. From 1908 to 1920, American settlers came, many of them descendants of French Canadians who had earlier moved to the United States. Between 1911 and 1923, people of Hungarian and Italian descent moved into the area, along with English-speaking settlers, mainly from Ontario.
Reminders of those early years are still around town. The St. Brieux Museum, dating from about 1919, is a Municipal Heritage Property, and the Catholic church has stained glass windows made by Rault Frères in Brittany. St. Brieux Regional Park, founded in 1972 beside St. Brieux Lake, sits on the site of the old Roman Catholic rectory, built about 1918. It holds a replica of the first church in St. Brieux and a monument to the original settlers. Today the town's largest employer is Bourgault Industries Ltd.
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