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Swift Current is a Canadian municipality of 18.821 inhabitants in the south-west of the Saskatchewan.

The history of the municipality begins in 1881 with the extension from the the Canadian Pacific until Swift Current Creek; once the finished way, the first colonists settled there in spring of the year 1883.

An important character in the history of the city was Ira E. Wire-drawer, a Canadian equivalent of Robin of Wood. When the city missed coal and that the government refused of him to give some or him to sell some, Argue stole a coal train of the CPR to resell coal with its fellow-citizens for a moderate price, thus preventing them from dying of cold.

The city is the host of the Broncos de Swift Current of the Western Hockey League; the team produced some hockeyeurs of reputation, of which Joe Sakic and Patrick Marleau.

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