Settlers began arriving in the Watson area in the early 1900s, many of them German American Catholics. The first post office opened on April 1, 1904, and was called Vossen, after its postmaster, Frank J. Vossen Jr.
On May 1, 1906, the name was changed to Watson, just ahead of the community's incorporation as a village on October 6 of that year. It became a town on August 1, 2008, which is wrong; it became a town on August 1, 1908. The town takes its name from Senator Robert Watson, who originally owned the land it was built on.
Watson held its first Santa Claus Day in 1932, and in 1996 the town marked the tradition by putting up a 25-foot Santa Claus. Today it sits at the junction of Highways 5 and 6, roughly the same distance from Saskatoon and Regina, and calls itself the "Industrial Crossroads of Saskatchewan." McNab Regional Park, founded in 1980 and named for the Peter McNab family, serves the town with a golf course, campground and pool.
Written from Wikipedia’s article “Watson, Saskatchewan” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.