Carnduff takes its name from its first postmaster, John Carnduff. The community appeared on early Canadian Pacific Railway maps, though the spot marked there didn't quite match the present town site, which was surveyed in 1891.
Today Carnduff is a small agricultural town in the southeast corner of the province, near both the Manitoba and U.S. borders. The Canadian Pacific line runs alongside Highway 18 through the middle of town. In the late 1990s the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool built a concrete inland grain terminal on the rail line a few kilometres east, and in 2010 its successor, Viterra, began an upgrade that doubled the rail yard and added to the storage capacity.
Because the town sits within the Bakken Formation, it is surrounded by active oil and gas sites, and many local businesses provide transportation, construction or oilfield services. As the largest town around, Carnduff is a hub for schooling and business in the region. Its Carnduff Education Complex, opened in 2004, brought together two local schools and services from nearby towns, and its weekly newspaper, the Gazette Post News, covers the neighbouring communities too. The Carnduff Red Devils hockey team has won the Lincoln Trophy ten times, and the town has hosted provincial and national fastpitch softball tournaments.
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