Masinasin, Alberta


Masinasin is a former community in Alberta, Canada within the County of Warner No. 5. It is located off Highway 501 on Range Road 133, approximately east of the Town of Milk River and north of the Canada–US border and Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park. All that remains of the former community is a small alternative school with baseball diamonds and the overgrown Pioneer Cemetery, approximately to the southeast on Highway 500.
Masinasin is a Cree name meaning 'Writing on Stone', referring to figures and writing cut in the sandstone banks of Milk River.

Climate

Masinasin experiences a semi-arid, continental climate.

Education

The Milk River Valley School District No. 2024 was formed on August 24, 1909. The Milk River Valley school was a one room schoolhouse that once stood at township 15 - 2 - 13 - W4. Originally named Milk River Valley, the name was changed to Masinasin in 1941, when several area school districts were centralized and moved to Masinasin.