 Chaplin is home to diverse industry such as a shrimp processing plant, sodium sulphate mining and pulse and oilseed agriculture.The rural municipalities were created to provide a civic government to rural residents, such as police, health, and fire protection, education, as well as bridge and road maintenance and construction.The early roads in Saskatchewan began as dirt roads along the township and range roads surveyed by the Dominion Government land surveyors around homestead allotments.