Bangor was settled in 1902 by descendants of Welsh families who had migrated to Patagonia in 1860. Conflicts with the Argentine authorities and a flood in 1899 led some 250 of them to move again. They were urged on by David Lloyd George and by Evan Jenkins, a fellow Welsh Patagonian who had come to Canada earlier, and they made their way to Saskatchewan.
The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway planned to call the community Basco, but the Welsh settlers persuaded the railway to name it after Bangor, in Wales. Bangor incorporated as a village on June 8, 2011...
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