Cupar became a village in 1905. A Canadian Pacific Railway official gave it its name, borrowing it from the town of Cupar in Fife, Scotland. The town marked its centennial in 2005.
Cupar sits on the flat plains about 75 kilometres northeast of Regina and 45 kilometres north of the Qu'Appelle Valley. It is known for its hockey history and is often called the Home of Eddie Shore, the legendary NHL defenceman who was raised there. Today the senior men's Cupar Canucks play in the Highway Hockey League, and the town has a swimming pool, ice rink, curling rink, ball diamonds and golf.
Cupar is also home to artist Jacqueline Berting, whose Berting Glass studio lies north of town. Her best-known work, The Glass Wheatfield, is made of 1,400 waist-high glass wheat stalks, each hand cut and lamp worked, and she calls it a salute to the Canadian farmer. Each summer the town holds the Cupar Gopher Drop, a lottery in which numbered stuffed gophers are dropped from a hot-air balloon, and the one landing nearest Hole 1 wins first prize.
Written from Wikipedia’s article “Cupar, Saskatchewan” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.