The town of Rouleau was named after Magistrate Charles Borromée Rouleau. Settlers came to the area in the early 1900s during the construction of the Soo line railway. The community was incorporated as a village in 1903 and as a town in 1907.

In 2003, when the “Corner Gas” team was searching for a spot in Saskatchewan to film the show, they chose Rouleau because it was the flattest, most classically Saskatchewan prairie spot they could find. Brent Butt loved the intersection where the Corner Gas station was eventually built, and so Rouleau temporarily became Dog River.

Inside the Town Hall there’s a map of the full walking tour. There are also maps where other visitors have marked where they traveled from – please go inside and add yourself!

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You can see the Rouleau Town Hall building in the background of this clip – the #5 Dog River Moment:

Did you know

  • The Dog River Town Hall scenes were filmed in several different places – for the sitcom, some were filmed in the curling rink (which you can visit in the tour – it’s on Drysdale Street) and some were shot in the seniors centre (which is next door to Rouleau’s Town Hall). For Corner Gas: The Movie, the town meetings were filmed in Regina.
  • However, Rouleau’s Town Hall was the site for filming the Harvest Dance in the second season episode, “Harvest Dance.”
  • The bowling alley inside the town hall was also used a few times.
  • Occasionally production built sets inside the Town Hall building, some of the interiors of the Foo Mart were shot there.
  • In 2009, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall proclaimed April 13 “Corner Gas Day.”
  • 107 episodes of the sitcom “Corner Gas” were filmed in Rouleau between 2003 and 2008 and were broadcast on CTV for Six Seasons. The first episode, “Ruby Reborn” aired in January 2004. It was an instant hit. “Corner Gas” was the #1 comedy on the air in Canada during its run, averaging 1.4 million viewers per episode. The series finale, “You’ve Been Great, Goodnight” aired on April 13, 2009 and was watched by 3.2 million people. “Corner Gas” is still the #1 primetime sitcom in re-runs on The Comedy Network. We’re very grateful for the dedication of all our fans!
  • The Corner Gas gang returned in Corner Gas: The Movie in 2014, which sold out theatres across the country and was watched on television by 20% of the population of Canada. On the night of the first broadcast, it trended worldwide on twitter!
  • The Corner Gas properties have been nominated for or won over 100 awards and nominations, including one International Emmy, one Golden Screen Award, seven Geminis (Canada’s Emmy), nine Canadian Comedy Awards and four Writers Guild of Canada Awards.
  • Rouleau is the inspiration for the animated version of Dog River in “Corner Gas Animated,” which will air on The Comedy Network in 2018.