Sutherland, Saskatchewan

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Sutherland was a Canadian town in Saskatchewan. Founded as a railway town northeast of Saskatoon in 1908, it was annexed by Saskatoon in 1956, becoming a community of the fast-growing city, although it remained separated from the rest of Saskatoon by the University of Saskatchewan, and extensive development of the lands around Sutherland did not begin to occur until the early 1970s.

The annexation required a number of streets in the town to be renamed. Its Railway Street became Gray Avenue because Saskatoon, at the time, already had a Railway Street (although Saskatoon's street would later be removed to make way for the Idylwyld Freeway). All numbered streets in Sutherland were increased by 100 (thus, its 8th Street became 108th Street) in order to avoid confusion with the numbered streets in the rest of Saskatoon. However, its main street was allowed to keep the name Central Avenue, even though it is nowhere near the centre of Saskatoon.

In the 1980s, the City of Saskatoon changed the community boundary of Sutherland, making that portion of Sutherland east of Central Avenue, north of the rail line, and south of 115th Street part of the Forest Grove community.

The town/community was named for William Charles Sutherland, an area rancher who later become a representative of the Saskatchewan Legislature.

Sutherland was the third town to be annexed by Saskatoon, and the first since the amalgamation of the towns of Saskatoon, Nutana and Riversdale formed the city of Saskatoon in 1906.