Smiley is a village in the Rural Municipality of Prairiedale No. 321, about 20 kilometres northwest of Kindersley, where Highway 307 meets Highway 772. Its early years were shaped by the railway: the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway was completed in 1913 and brought an economic boom to the young community. Smiley incorporated as a village on November 26, 1913.
The rail line did not last. In 1987 the Dodsland subdivision between Dodsland and Smiley was transferred to the Canadian Pacific Railway. With major grain centres such as Kindersley so close, CPR put the line up for abandonment, and in 1997 the Canadian Transportation Agency gave permission to remove the track.
Smiley also lived through a hard day on July 6, 1935, when an F3 tornado cut a 10-kilometre path through the area and took two lives.
Today the village is known for the Great Wall of Saskatchewan, a stone wall 1.6 kilometres long, three metres wide and two metres high. Albert "Stonewall" Johnson spent over 30 years building it, using only stones, with no cement or mortar, for aesthetic purposes.
Written from Wikipedia’s article “Smiley, Saskatchewan” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.