Like giant frozen slugs the glaciers of the last ice age left a trail behind them when they receded. As the fields of ice advanced across what is now Saskatchewan they gouged their way over the land taking with them rocks and soil. When they stopped their advance the melting began, and as the ice retreated a huge pile of gravel, rock and earth, known as a terminal morain, marked the point of its furthest advance.

Today, as you look southwest from Caronport you can see the village of Caron sitting on the material deposited beneath the glacier but in the distance rising from the plain is the terminal morain left by the glaciers of the last ice age. Known as the Missouri Coteau, this range of hills runs from southeast to northwest and forms a backdrop for Caron.

Below the Coteau the farmers who settled in Caron farmed their flat land and up on the Coteau the ranchers grazed their cattle on the rolling morain hills and grew feed in the dried-out glacial pot lakes they called sloughs.

Today, Caron is dwarfed by its neighbour Caronport but in its day it was a thriving town and the heart of a farming community. The traffic zipping by on Number 1 Highway could blink and fail to see the little collection of houses located on a slight upgrade beyond the railway tracks.