Aneroid sits in southwestern Saskatchewan, about 70 kilometres southeast of Swift Current, where Highway 13 (the Red Coat Trail, also called the Ghost Town Trail) meets Highway 609. The community's post office opened on February 1, 1911, under the name Val Blair. It was renamed Aneroid on December 1, 1913.
The most popular story about the name is that the first survey party lost its aneroid barometer on the present townsite. Many of the streets are named after surveyors' instruments, which fits that tale.
Aneroid was a village until December 31, 2008, when it became a special service area under the Rural Municipality of Auvergne No. 76. Two historic buildings still stand. The two-storey brick Public School of 1915 was designed by Stanley Edgar Storey, one of Saskatchewan's most significant architects, and it served students until 1997. The red-brick United Church was built in 1926 to a design by architect Charles Nicholson. Retired NHL hockey player Patrick Marleau is among the community's notable residents.
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