Richard was founded in 1900 by Emile Richard, who gave the village its name. Born in 1860, he built a ranch here, and the original Richard Ranch Building dates to 1901. A post office opened in 1904, and on October 11, 1916, Richard incorporated as a village, about 48 kilometres east of North Battleford.
In its busier days the village had a good many buildings: Patrick Labreque's store (later the Richard Trading Post), a livery barn, the Richard Hotel, a bank, a Canadian National Railway station, a town hall, a café, a CO-OP store that later became Symonds Hardware, and a grain elevator that opened in 1915. Emile Richard's brick home and garage went up in 1917. His house, known as "Acadia," burned down in 1935, and he moved away from Richard. He died in Montreal in 1942.
Of all those buildings, only the post office is still standing today. Over the years many of the others were bought and moved out of town.
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