Spalding is a village in the Rural Municipality of Spalding No. 368, and agriculture has long driven its local economy. The name comes from Spalding, Lincolnshire, England, the birthplace of Pattie Hutchinson, wife of Joseph William Hutchison, the community's first postmaster.
Spalding incorporated as a village on March 11, 1924. A hundred years later, in 2024, residents marked the centenary with an official celebration timed to coincide with Canada Day in July.
The village has two municipal heritage properties. The Reynold Rapp Residence is a two-storey wood house built in 1926. Rapp and his family moved in during 1948; he served as town overseer from 1950 to 1957 and as a member of Parliament from 1958 until 1968. The house was donated to the community in 1971 and became the Reynold Rapp Museum, opened in 1972 by John Diefenbaker. Spalding United Church, a wood-frame church also built in 1926, blends Gothic Revival and Tudor Revival design.
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