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== History == White City began on {{convert|80|acre|ha}} owned by [[Pilot Butte, Saskatchewan|Pilot Butte]] resident Johnston Lipsett.<ref name=":22">{{Cite book |title=Pilot Butte & District: Celebrating 125 Years of Living, 1882-2007 |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-897010-41-9 |location=Regina, Saskatchewan}}</ref> The community organized as a hamlet on April 26, 1959.<ref name=ToWCGS/> It incorporated as a village on March 1, 1967 and then as a town on November 1, 2000.<ref name=ToWCGS/> The community was named after [[White City, London]], England when John Kadannek, a local store owner, persuaded Lipsett to name it for the home of his favourite aunt.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Barry|first1=Bill|title=Geographic Names of Saskatchewan|url=https://archive.org/details/geographicnameso0000barr|url-access=registration|date=September 2005|publisher=People Places Publishing, Ltd.|location=Regina, Saskatchewan|isbn=1-897010-19-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/geographicnameso0000barr/page/453 453]}}</ref>
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