Frobisher began as a railway crossroads. The village was built where two rail lines met: the Canadian Pacific Railway's Souris Line and the Grand Trunk Regina-Boundary Branch Line, which later became a Canadian National line. It was first called Frobyshire, but an error in the original village plans meant the name had to be changed.
By 1903 the community had four grain elevators, each able to hold 25,000 bushels, and one of them still stands today. Frobisher was incorporated as a village on July 4, 1904. The Grand Trunk line is now gone; CN issued a notice of discontinuance for the stretch from Northgate to Lampman on October 16, 2007.
Today Frobisher sits on Highway 18 in the heart of south-east Saskatchewan's oil patch, with pumpjacks and oil batteries dotting the area. The village has oil field businesses, a post office, a restaurant and convenience store, and Frobisher United Church. Its ice rink is home to the Frobisher Flyers, one of the four founding teams of the Big 6 Hockey League.
Written from Wikipedia’s article “Frobisher, Saskatchewan” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.