Westmount

Originally homesteaded in the 1880s, Westmount is a mature Saskatoon neighbourhood located near the city’s centre. Made up of mostly older bungalow-style single-family homes, it has a population of about 2,700 people and an affordable average home price of just over $210,000.

The area that now makes up this neighbourhood was settled by homesteaders in 1884, as the east bank settlement of Saskatoon struggled for survival. A settler named Archibald L. Brown was one such landowner, owning a section of land where Westmount School would later be built. The neighbourhood was within the city limits when the City of Saskatoon was incorporated in 1906. At that time it was the city's northwest corner, hence the name. The streets in this community are named for early settlers of the Saskatoon area, and most of the houses were built before 1960.

Westmount School was opened on April 3, 1913. E. D. Feehan High School was opened in 1967, and named in honour of Edward Daniel Feehan, a former superintendent of separate schools in Saskatoon. It is designated a bilingual English and Ukrainian school and also has classes in Cree and Spanish.

Development before 1927 was haphazard, which sometimes resulted in irregularity between neighbourhood streets between Westmount and Caswell Hill. In 1927, the first formal town planning board was established. Westmount was zoned Residence A District, which limited development to one and two-family houses of no more than two-and-a-half storeys.

In its recent history, this neighbourhood has become a lower-income inner-city neighbourhood. It and other core neighbourhoods have been the recipients of affordable housing and community economic development initiatives to improve the lives of residents.