Archerwill takes its name from three people who sat on the governing council of the Rural Municipality of Barrier Valley in 1924: councillors Archie Campbell and Ervie Hanson, and secretary-treasurer William Pierce. The name is a syllabic abbreviation drawn from their names. The community became a village on January 1, 1947.
The village sits on the Canadian Pacific Railway's Wadena-to-Tisdale branch line. The railway station, then nearly 55 years old, was torn down in the early 1980s, and the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and UGG elevators, each nearly 60 years old, came down in the 1990s. Since 1981 Archerwill has been the administrative centre of the RM of Barrier Valley.
On June 23, 2016, the Archerwill Café, probably built in the late 1920s and most recently operating as Diner Thirty Five, burned down. The Archerwill Volunteer Fire Department, helped by the Rose Valley Volunteer Fire Department, which came from 17 kilometres away, saved the neighbouring Archerwill Hotel and the post office.
Today the village has a post office, an indoor skating rink with attached curling sheets, a community hall with a small public library, a Senior Citizens' Centre and an elementary school.
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