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The Village of Tate was an urban municipality incorporated in 1909, under the provisions of The Village Ordinance. The Village was governed by an elected council that could hire staff to manage daily administration and maintain municipal services, such as roads, utilities and recreation facilities. The responsibilities of the council included enforcing bylaws; waste collection/landfill; fire protection; maintaining public utilities, roads and streets; issuing tax and assessment notices and collecting taxes and other fees.

The Village of Tate was an agricultural-based community located on the north-east corner of Section 36, Township 28, Range 21, west of the second meridian, 13 kilometres northwest of the Village of Semans in central Saskatchewan. The Village was found near Highway 15 between highways 6 and 20 and was located within the Rural Municipality of Mount Hope No. 276. The Village was named after D'Arcy Tate, solicitor for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.

The village was disorganized in 1961.

Alex Taylor was born January 24, 1936 in Glasgow, Scotland. He received a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) from Wilfrid Laurier University in 1962, and a Masters of Divinity from Victoria University in Toronto in 1965. Taylor served as a member of the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the Kerrobert - Kindersley electoral district from 1971 to 1975. During part of this time, 1972-1975, he served as the Minister of Social Services and Minister Responsible for the Public Service Commission and the Public Service Superannuation Board.

From 1965, Taylor was a United Church Minister at Zion United Church in Regina, Lang - Milestone United Church, and at Eatonia - Mantario United Church. He also served for 10 years as chaplain of HMCS Queen, retiring in 1991 with the rank of Lieutenant-Commander. He retired from the active ministry in 2001.

From 1978 to 1980 he chaired the Saskatchewan Worker's Compensation Board, and prepared the legislation changing compensation from pension to salary replacement. From 1980 to 1981 he chaired the Saskatchewan Task Force on Rehabilitation and the Minister's consultation on Home Care. In 2000 he was elected to the Regina Health District Board, and appointed to the new Regional Board, which became the Regina - Qu'Appelle Health Authority. In 2002 he was elected Board Chair of Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations (SAHO), and served in that role until 2010. He was also Chair of Canadian Health Care Association.

George James Taylor was born in Blackwood, South Wales on June 13, 1915 to William and Rosina Taylor. In 1929, he and his family emigrated to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Taylor graduated from Bedford Road Technical College in 1932. After serving in the Spanish Civil War, he married Tillie Goldenberg in 1941 and attended the University of Saskatchewan, College of Law, earning his degree in 1949.

After graduation, Taylor began his professional career as a lawyer and joined Irving Goldenberg's law firm in Saskatoon. He was admitted to the Saskatchewan Bar in 1951 and appointed Queen's Counsel in 1961. Taylor taught at the College of Law, University of Saskatchewan; served as president of the Saskatchewan Bar; and was a member of the Saskatchewan Medical Care Insurance Commission from 1962 to 1966.

Taylor was active politically in Saskatchewan. He was a member of the Communist Party in the 1930s and 1940s and was involved with the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and New Democratic Party (NDP). Taylor ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Saskatoon - Humboldt constitutency in the 1968 and 1972 federal general elections. In 1970, he ran for the leadership of the provincial NDP but lost to Allan Blakeney. Taylor served as an alderman for the City of Saskatoon from 1965 to 1982.

George Taylor died in Saskatoon on September 9, 2003 and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Saskatoon.

George and Tillie Taylor had two daughters.

Douglas Graham Taylor was born on July 4, 1936 near Moffat, Saskatchewan to Robert and Isabella Taylor. Graham Taylor received his primary and secondary education at Candiac and Wolseley, Saskatchewan. Taylor earned a Bachelor of Education degree (1965) and a Diploma in Educational Administration (1972) from the University of Regina.

Prior to his entry into provincial politics, Taylor was a teacher in Kipling and Wolseley and was principal of Wolseley High School from 1967 to 1979. He served as President of the Indian Head-Broadview Teachers' Association and Indian Head Superintendency Principal Group. Taylor also operated a farm north of Wolseley.

Taylor was first elected to the Saskatchewan Legislature in 1978 and served as a Progressive Conservative MLA for the Indian Head-Wolseley constituency until 1990. In 1979 Taylor ran unsuccessfully for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan. After his defeat, he was appointed House Leader for the Official Opposition in the Legislature and served as Education Critic and Chairman of the Human and Social Resources Committee.

Taylor served in the Grant Devine Government as Minister of Health (1982-1986); Minister of Tourism and Small Business (1986-1987); Minister of Supply and Services (1986-1988); Minister of Tourism, Small Business and Co-operatives (1987-1988) and Minister of Public Participation (1988-1989).

Taylor was Minister Responsible for Saskatchewan Medical Care Insurance Commission (1982-1986); Saskatchewan Cancer Commission (1982-1984); Saskatchewan Cancer Foundation (1984-1986); Alcoholism Commission of Saskatchewan (1982-1985); Saskatchewan Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission (1985-1986); Northern Affairs Secretariat (1986-1987); Liquor Board (1986-1989); Liquor Licensing Commission (1986-1989); Saskatchewan Property Management Corporation (1986-1989); Saskatchewan Government Printing Company (1986-1989); Saskatchewan Economic Development Corporation (1986-1988) and Saskatchewan Government Insurance (1988-1989).

Taylor resigned from Cabinet on October 3, 1989 to become Saskatchewan's Agent General in Hong Kong. He was dismissed from the post on November 22, 1991 when the NDP government closed all of the province's trade offices. Taylor did not seek re-election in the 1991 general election and Lorne Scott (NDP) became the MLA for the Indian Head-Wolseley constituency. He retired to his family farm near Wolseley. Taylor died in Wolseley on October 7, 2009.

Graham Taylor married Katherine Isabel Garden on October 3, 1959. They had five children: Robert, Katherine, Anthony (deceased); Susan and Peter.