Most Saskatchewan place names honouring war casualties, where this page has found documentation, tend to follow the standard postwar memorial pattern — a community renames a street, builds a cenotaph, or dedicates a hall after the First World War has already claimed a local son. Duval's situation is genuinely different in its sequencing: the village adopted his name in 1911, meaning whatever recognition or connection prompted that choice existed before the war, tied to Edward Duval as a living person known to the community rather than as a name added retroactively to a list of the fallen.
That earlier timeline raises a real, honest question this page can't fully resolve with the sources available: what was Edward Duval's specific connection to the original Mountain Side community before 1911, strong enough that residents chose to rename their entire village after him rather than simply retaining the descriptive original name? The available sources confirm the rename and the connection to a soldier later killed in the First World War, but the deeper personal story behind that 1911 decision isn't documented in detail here.
The original name, Mountain Side, is itself worth a brief note — a genuinely descriptive rather than honorific name, the kind many prairie communities carried temporarily before either keeping a geographic descriptor permanently or, as happened here, switching to an honorific name tied to a specific individual. Duval's own switch from a landscape description to a person's name reflects a real, if not universal, evolution some Saskatchewan communities underwent in their first years of existence.
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Duval's 14.5% population growth between 2016 and 2021 puts it in the same general company as Dubuc, another village covered on this site that recorded real, above-average growth against the broader regional pattern of small-village decline. Two comparably sized villages both posting double-digit percentage gains in the same five-year window is worth noting as a genuine, if modest, counter-trend within this specific area of central Saskatchewan, even without a single confirmed shared cause behind both increases.
Duval's position on Highway 20, the same north-south corridor that also runs through Drake further north, places it within a real, functioning transportation route connecting a string of small central Saskatchewan communities to both Regina and Saskatoon — a highway corridor that has likely helped support Duval's recent population stability and growth in a way that villages further from major routes haven't necessarily shared.
The First World War's impact on small Saskatchewan communities generally was genuinely severe relative to their size — a village with a population in the low hundreds could lose a meaningful fraction of its young men to a single conflict, and that kind of loss registered deeply in communities this small in a way that's harder to fully appreciate from a present-day vantage point. Renaming an entire village after a single local soldier, as happened with Duval, was one real, if not universal, form that community grief and commemoration took across the prairies following individual losses, alongside more common practices like cenotaphs, memorial halls, or named streets. That Duval's own renaming happened in 1911, before the war that would eventually kill Edward Duval, adds a genuinely unusual wrinkle to that broader pattern, suggesting the initial choice to honour him wasn't originally a wartime memorial gesture at all, even though it would come to carry that additional weight once war broke out three years later.
Duval's real, ongoing population growth in recent years, layered on top of its unusual pre-war renaming story, gives the village a genuinely fuller narrative than either fact would provide alone — a community actively growing today while still carrying a name chosen in 1911 for reasons that would only fully reveal their weight a few years later.
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