Heward is a village in southeastern Saskatchewan, on Highway 33 in the Rural Municipality of Tecumseh No. 65. It incorporated as a village on November 21, 1904, and a local history, Prairie Trails and Tales: Heward Saskatchewan 1900-1976, was written by Muriel Dempsey and published in 1977.
One of the best-known stories from the village's past concerns its church. Bryce Dickey, who was born in Heward in 1908, wrote an extensive history of the village that appeared in the summer 2007 issue of Folklore magazine. He tells how Reverend Pike, an Englishman and a bachelor, decided to build a new church with the same design and construction as one in England that had been lost to the sea through coastal erosion. The chimes and font from that church were installed in the Heward church. When the church was finally closed, the chimes and font were sent to a church in Regina.
Today Heward is a very small village, but it still keeps a post office, a rink and a hall, all of which serve the surrounding farming community.
Written from Wikipedia’s article “Heward, Saskatchewan” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.