Hazlet was founded in 1928, after the Canadian Pacific Railway arrived, and became an incorporated village on January 1, 1963. It sits northwest of Swift Current near the Great Sand Hills, in the Rural Municipality of Pittville No. 169. Agriculture, cattle and bison ranching, and oil and natural gas have long driven the local economy.
The area has a notable place in medical history. The RM of Pittville already had a health scheme devised by William J. Burak, giving residents medical and hospital care for just under $11 per person per year. Burak pressed for a full regional plan, and after ratepayers voted in favour on November 26, 1945, the Saskatchewan government acted. The region's hospitalization and health care scheme took effect on July 1, 1946, two years before Great Britain's "cradle to the grave" plan.
Hazlet is also a baseball town. Teams have played here since the 1920s, and the Hazlet Elks won the South River Baseball League several times before joining the Saskatchewan Major Baseball League in 1982. They took three straight league titles in 1987, 1988 and 1989, though Hazlet was the smallest community ever in that league. The community entered the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame in 2013.
During the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, an earthen dam was built to create Hazlet Reservoir, which later became Hazlet Regional Park, one of the province's original regional parks, in 1960. In 2010 the community opened what was billed as Canada's first wind powered recreation complex.
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