 The community is situated near the northern edge of agricultural settlement in the transition zone between the aspen parkland and boreal forest biomes and as the early settlers arrived the land had to be cleared of the jack pine forests before crops could be planted.The trees, however, provided an early cash crop and logs were rafted into Prince Albert where many were converted into railway ties.The town has a library, and a museum located in the former Canadian Northern Railway station built in 1909.