Roughly 75 kilometres northwest of Regina, Strasbourg sits within the agricultural heartland of southern Saskatchewan, a region long valued for its fertile soils and wide-open pasture land. The town covers a land area of 5.81 square kilometres and recorded a population of 788 residents in the 2021 federal census, spread across 362 occupied private dwellings out of a total of 395. That figure represents a modest decline of about 1.5 per cent from the 800 residents counted in 2016, giving the community a population density of roughly 135.6 people per square kilometre.
The first settlers arrived in this part of the prairies around 1884, drawn largely from German-speaking communities. The original name was Strassburg, combining the German words Strass (road or street) and burg (castle). In 1919, following the end of World War I and the return of Alsace to France, Canada’s Geography department updated the spelling to the French form, Strasbourg, mirroring the renaming of the city in Alsace. The town had been incorporated more than a decade earlier, in 1907. Today, Strasbourg is home to the Strasbourg Recreation Centre, built in 1976, which houses both an ice rink and a curling rink and serves as home ice for the Strasbourg Maroons of the senior men’s Highway Hockey League. A nine-hole golf course and ball diamonds round out local recreation options. The old Strasbourg CPR railway station now operates as a local museum, while Rowan’s Ravine Provincial Park on Last Mountain Lake lies about 25 kilometres to the southwest, and Last Mountain rises to the northeast. Notable people from the community include NHL player Greg Hubick, professional hockey player Nick Schultz, Harvard Medical School professor Frederick Bieber, and psychiatrist Bennet Wong.