Furdale sits on the east bank of the South Saskatchewan River, just south of Saskatoon. When the half section of land was first surveyed, it was granted to the Hudson Bay Company. It was farmed for a time and then sold, subdivided and registered with the Land Titles Office as "Plan FN". Between 1910 and 1912 the land was developed as "Glencairn" and its streets were laid out.
Fur farming began to take hold in the area around the 1930s. The Saskatoon Silver Fox Farm, run by Dr. R.H. MacDonald, was one of the largest, with more than 700 animals, and in the 1950s Archie Campbell's Fur Farm was a prominent mink operation. Around 1950 the people of Glencairn turned a former dairy barn into a curling rink and called it the Furdale Curling Club, a nod to those fur farms. The name stuck to the community.
In September 1958 Furdale School opened on Haliburton Avenue with 27 students in its first year. It was a typical one-room schoolhouse run under the Grasswood School Board, with one teacher for all grades. It closed in 1966, and the remaining students finished their studies in Clavet or Saskatoon.
Today Furdale is a community of acreages and luxury homes, a bedroom community of Saskatoon, and home to many of the area's major horse stable and breeding facilities.
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