Abbey's story begins around 1910, when area residents got their mail at a post office called Longworth, kept in the home of Cassie Baldwin. The land where the village now stands was originally owned by a man named D.F. Kennedy.
In 1913 the Canadian Pacific Railway bought a quarter section from Kennedy to build a rail line. The CPR gave him the honour of naming the new community, and he chose Abbey, the name of the Kennedy farm in Ireland. Abbey incorporated as a village on September 2, 1913.
A large fire threatened the community in September 1918, and fire protection was upgraded in response. The Abbey Fire Hall was built in 1919 and served until a new station opened in 1975. It is now Abbey's one municipal heritage property on the Canadian Register of Historic Places, and the siren on its tower is still sounded to signal emergencies.
Today the village also has the Abbey Golf Club, a nine-hole course with sand greens just south-east of town, built in 1950.
Written from Wikipedia’s article “Abbey, Saskatchewan” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.