It's worth sitting with the actual timeline here, because a 40-year gap between graffiti and official adoption is a genuinely long stretch for an unsanctioned joke to survive. In 1914, a survey crew — not town officials, not a committee, just a group of workers, apparently drinking — painted the line onto a sign somewhere in or near the town. Rather than being scrubbed off or forgotten, it persisted, presumably repainted or maintained informally by residents who found it funny enough to keep, for the better part of two generations before the town council made it official policy in 1954.
That's worth appreciating as a real, if unusual, example of grassroots civic identity outlasting its own origin. Most town slogans are chosen deliberately by a committee trying to capture something specific about the community — Biggar's instead emerged from an unplanned joke, survived on sheer popularity and staying power alone, and only got official sanction once it had already proven itself as something residents genuinely wanted associated with their town. The council in 1954 wasn't inventing an identity; it was formally recognizing one the town had already chosen for itself, informally, over four decades.
The population story underneath the slogan is more conventional but still worth real attention. A peak of 2,755 in 1966 places Biggar's high point in the mid-1960s, consistent with a lot of Saskatchewan towns whose growth crested around that era before agricultural mechanization and rural-to-urban migration began reshaping the province's population map. The subsequent decline to 2,133 by 2021 is real but gradual — Biggar remains a genuinely substantial town by the standards of the smaller communities covered elsewhere on this site, not a village teetering near dissolution.
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Biggar's own actual size, real but modest, is genuinely part of why the slogan lands as funny rather than as an odd overreach — a town comparing itself favourably to New York is a real, self-aware joke precisely because nobody involved was under any illusion Biggar was actually competing with a global metropolis, which is likely part of why the line survived forty years of informal circulation before anyone bothered to make it official.
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Biggar's slogan has become genuinely well known beyond the town itself over the decades since its 1954 adoption, showing up in Canadian trivia, travel writing, and general references to prairie small-town humour — a rare case of a small Saskatchewan community's own local joke achieving real, lasting recognition well outside the province, which says something about how effectively a self-deprecating, genuinely funny line can travel further than a more conventional civic slogan ever would, decades after the survey crew who first painted it likely had no idea it would outlive them by well over a century.
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