Saskatchewan has a genuine collection of place names that read as unintentionally funny or literal out of context — names that draw curiosity from outside the province precisely because they sound like plain English phrases rather than typical place names. Drinkwater sits on that informal list, and it's worth being direct about the actual explanation: Charles Drinkwater was a real historical figure, an original director of the Canadian Pacific Railway during its formative construction era in the early-to-mid 1880s, and the surname is simply his own family name, with no connection to the literal meaning of the words.
Railway directors of that era routinely had prairie townsites named after them as new branch lines were surveyed and platted — it was a practical, low-cost way for the CPR to honour its own leadership and financiers without requiring any elaborate ceremony, and a company director's surname needed no further justification to end up on a station sign. Charles Drinkwater's specific role and biography beyond his CPR directorship aren't detailed in the sources available for this page, which is honestly typical for many of the era's railway officials whose names live on primarily through the small prairie communities named after them rather than through extensive independent biographical record.
The 1902 post office and 1904 village incorporation dates place Drinkwater within the earlier wave of CPR branch-line settlement south of Moose Jaw, predating some of the other communities covered on this site that incorporated closer to 1910 or later. That earlier timeline reflects the CPR's mainline corridor through Moose Jaw reaching this specific area sooner than more remote branch lines further from the railway's original east-west route.
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Drinkwater's location southeast of Moose Jaw places it within a corridor of small CPR branch-line villages that developed to serve grain-shipping needs for surrounding farms in the early twentieth century, before highway trucking made longer-distance direct-to-elevator hauling practical. Many villages along this same general branch line pattern have seen their populations decline over subsequent decades as fewer, larger farm operations reduced the number of families needing a village this close by for regular services — a broader regional pattern that likely applies to Drinkwater as much as to its neighbours, even without page-specific data isolating the exact local causes.
The genuinely unusual, literal-sounding names scattered across the Saskatchewan map — Drinkwater among them — mostly share this same underlying explanation: a real person's real surname, attached to a townsite through entirely mundane railway-era naming practices, with the apparent joke being nothing more than coincidence of English vocabulary rather than any deliberate whimsy on the part of the CPR's naming committees.
The Canadian Pacific Railway's own directorship during the 1880s construction era included a real mix of financiers, politicians, and career railway administrators, many of whom took on substantial personal financial risk backing what was, at the time, an enormously ambitious and expensive transcontinental construction project. Naming new prairie stations after these directors served a genuine practical purpose beyond simple tribute — it gave the company a ready supply of names for the dozens of new sidings and stations being established as construction progressed, without requiring separate deliberation for each one. Charles Drinkwater's name ending up on this specific station reflects that broader, real practice rather than any special significance attached to this particular location over any other along the same branch line. It's a pattern worth understanding as genuinely administrative in nature — efficient, practical naming by a company moving quickly across enormous distances — rather than assuming each individual station name carried deep symbolic weight for the specific community that grew up around it.
Whatever amusement the name draws today, Drinkwater's own residents have lived with a genuinely functional, ordinary small village identity for well over a century now, the literal reading of the name mattering considerably less locally than it does to outside visitors encountering the sign for the first time.
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