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Quick Facts about Swift Current
- Home to Lyric, Saskatchewan's oldest operating theatre. It was built in 1912 at a cost of $50,000, and is considered the "crown jewel" of Swift Current's historical downtown buildings. The EI Wood Building is the city's tallest building.
- The Imperial Hotel is the longest-running business in Swift Current. The hotel is known as the Big "I", and was built in 1903. It was used as proof that Swift Current should be given village status. The hotel's owner, R.H. Corbett of Medicine Hat, needed the designation to obtain a liquor licence.
- Home to the Windscape Kite Festival, the largest of its kind in Western Canada.
- Home to the Swift Current Broncos, a hockey team that has launched the careers of Joe Sakic and Dave "Tiger" Williams.
- 2374 hours on average of sunshine annually.
- In 1907, when the population was counted, they included dogs in the 550 count.
- In 1909, a large prairie fire spread from Swift Current to Yellow Grass, measuring 75 miles long north to south.
- Incorporated as a city on January 15, 1914.
- In 1946, Swift Current became the first region in Canada to combine public health with prepaid universal medical care.
- In 1911, the first water and sewer mains were built in Swift Current.
- In 1945, Swift Current residents could now have indoor, private toilets.
- Joe Sakic – hockey player
- Dave "Tiger" Williams – hockey player
- Boyd Kane – hockey player
- Darrel Scoville – hockey player
- Lorna Crozier – born in 1948 in Swift Current, this former high school English teacher won the 1992 Governor General's Award for Poetry for her collection entitled Inventing the Hawk.
