Clavet began in 1908 as the Village of French, set out on part of Sections 15 and 16. J.T. Dawson served as overseer, and Alfred Rogers and C.H. Goodrich were elected councillors in February 1909, with Carl H. Phillips as secretary-treasurer. On March 9, 1909, the name was changed to Clavet.
The early village struggled. By October 1909 officials were recommending it be disorganized, since two councillors had moved away, the secretary-treasurer had resigned, and there were too few people. Still, it carried on, and in 1925 it counted 9 men, 5 women and 12 children, with two elevators, a general store, an implement shop, a lumberyard, a post office, a church and a dwelling house. In 1927 the village was disorganized, and the RM of Blucher looked after its affairs until 1978. Those records were lost when the RM office burned in 1982.
Clavet became an organized hamlet in 1964, with eleven families. Water and sewer lines went in during 1972 and 1973, and Main Street, Queen Street and Second Avenue were paved in 1972. Two old elevators burned in 1967 and a third was torn down in 1968. New homes on Campbell Place, named for longtime postmaster Jean Campbell, were built between 1975 and 1979. Residents petitioned for village status, and Clavet incorporated as a village on July 1, 1978, with Bill Martin as the first mayor.
Today the village sits on an old stretch of the Yellowhead Highway southeast of Saskatoon, with the main highway bypassing it to the north. The Canadian National Railway still runs through, and Clavet Composite School teaches students from Kindergarten to Grade 12.
Written from Wikipedia’s article “Clavet, Saskatchewan” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.