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The Rexboro Community Hall was operated by the Rexboro Social Club which was chartered in 1919 at a meeting in the Rexboro School (SW 21-53-4-W5). The Club held meetings, dances and social functions in the school until the hall was completed on the NE corner of NE 13-53-5-W5, just south of Highway 16 West at the Darwell Junction. (Secondary Highway 765). It was built on two acres bought from the Western Canada Land Co. for thirty dollars in 1923. Building of the 24 ft. x 50 ft. x 10 ft. frame structure was begun in 1924 by Alfred Root and completed in 1927. The cost was approximately $530 cash and many donations of material and labour from the members. A 16 ft. x 24 ft. lean-to kitchen/cloak room on the south end was added in 1933.

The hall was electrified in 1954.

In 1958 the hall was moved a couple of hundred feet south and a little west onto land donated by Dr. J. D. Ross, to accomodate the upgrading of Highway 16 West, . The Department of Highways paid $3355 for the land and moving expenses. This money was spent to move the hall and place it on a concrete foundation. A twenty foot extension was built on to the west for a stage, and a new kitchen was made under the stage in a partial basement. The hall was turned so the entry was to the east, not north. The hall operated there as a community centre until 1974. The building was donated to the Boy Scouts of Canada and the land returned to Dr. J.D. Ross when the Social Club ceased operation.

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