Alvena sits about 60 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon, in the Rural Municipality of Fish Creek No. 402. The first people to settle along the nearby South Saskatchewan River were Métis families. Many of them were caught up in the Battle of Fish Creek on April 24, 1885, which was fought in Tourond's Coulee, a few miles west of where Alvena would later stand.
The settlers who built the community were largely of Ukrainian descent, many of them peasant farmers who had come from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Others came from Poland, and they put up Roman Catholic churches in the area. Alvena incorporated as a village on July 1, 1936.
Two well-known Saskatchewan figures are linked to the village: Edward Bayda, a former Chief Justice of Saskatchewan, and Ed Tchorzewski, a former provincial Minister of Finance and president of the New Democratic Party.
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