Viceroy was incorporated in 1912 and grew into a busy little community in southern Saskatchewan, about 7 kilometres south of the historic Red Coat Trail on Highway 624, north of Willow Bunch Lake and next to the Big Muddy Valley. In the 1950s it reached its peak of about 250 people.
In those busier days Viceroy had two schools, two restaurants, a theatre, and Klemenz Poolroom and bowling alley, along with many other businesses. Two fires over the past century left the community much smaller.
Viceroy was a village until May 10, 2002, when it was restructured as a hamlet under the Rural Municipality of Excel No. 71. The RM office is on main street, with its equipment yard and shop to the south. The Viceroy Co-op still serves as the local general store, offering groceries, tools, feed, hardware, parts, auto repair and fuel, and Bengough Credit Union keeps a branch in town.
Written from Wikipedia’s article “Viceroy, Saskatchewan” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.