High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wynyard is a town in eastern Saskatchewan, Canada, 132 km west of Yorkton and 260 km east of Saskatoon. Wynyard is a part of the rural municipality of Big Quill No. 308. Many of the early settlers to the area around Big Quill Lake were of Icelandic origin, and the ethnic bloc settlement area was called The Vatnabyggd settlement. Sleipnir, a store and post office, was located at NE-30-22-15 and was the center of community life of the Vatnabyggd settlement until it was moved into Wynyard in 1908.