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Punnichy
Village in Saskatchewan, Canada
Village in Saskatchewan, Canada
| Field | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| official_name | Punnichy | |
| native_name | ||
| settlement_type | Village | |
| pushpin_map | Saskatchewan#Canada | |
| pushpin_map_caption | Location of Punnichy in Saskatchewan | |
| coordinates | ||
| dot_x | dot_y = | |
| subdivision_type | Country | |
| subdivision_name | Canada | |
| subdivision_type1 | Province | |
| subdivision_name1 | Saskatchewan | |
| subdivision_type2 | Region | |
| subdivision_type3 | Census division | |
| subdivision_name3 | 6 | |
| subdivision_type4 | Rural Municipality | |
| subdivision_name4 | Mount Hope No. 279 | |
| leader_title | Mayor | |
| leader_name | Victor Senft | |
| leader_title1 | Administrator | |
| leader_name1 | Dixie-Lee Cowan | |
| leader_title2 | Governing body | |
| leader_name2 | Punnichy Village Council | |
| established_title | Post office | |
| established_date | 1909-04-01 | |
| established_title2 | Incorporated (Village) | |
| established_date2 | 1909 | |
| established_title3 | Incorporated (Town) | |
| unit_pref | ||
| area_total_km2 | 0.68 | |
| population_as_of | 2011 | |
| population_footnotes | {{cite web | |
| title | 2011 Community Profiles | |
| work | Statistics Canada | |
| publisher | Government of Canada | |
| url | http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/index.cfm?Lang=E | |
| access-date | 2014-08-21}} | |
| population_total | 245 | |
| population_density_km2 | 363.3 | |
| population_blank1_title | National Population Rank (Out of 5,008) | |
| population_density_blank1_km2 | population_density_blank1_sq_mi = | |
| timezone | CST | |
| utc_offset | −6 | |
| elevation_footnotes | ||
| elevation_m | 610 | |
| postal_code_type | Postal code | |
| postal_code | S0A 3C0 | |
| area_code | 306 | |
| blank_name | Highways | |
| blank_info | Highway 15 | |
| blank1_name | Waterways | |
| blank2_name | Railways | |
| blank2_info | Canadian National Railway | |
| footnotes | {{Cite web | |
| last | National Archives | |
| first | Archivia Net | |
| title | Post Offices and Postmasters | |
| url | http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/post-offices/001001-100.01-e.php | |
| access-date | 2014-08-21}}{{Cite web | |
| last | Government of Saskatchewan | |
| first | MRD Home | |
| title | Municipal Directory System | |
| url | http://www.mds.gov.sk.ca/apps/Pub/MDS/welcome.aspx | |
| access-date | 2014-08-21}} |
| access-date = 2014-08-21}} ||footnotes = {{Cite web | access-date = 2014-08-21}}{{Cite web | access-date = 2014-08-21}}
Punnichy (2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Mount Hope No. 279 and Census Division No. 10. It is 126 km northeast of the city of Regina. This village is part of the original "Alphabet Line" of the main Canadian National Railway line with Lestock to the east and Quinton to the west (the M, N, O towns have long since been deserted). Punnichy derived its name from panacay, "fledgling bird with few feathers", a Saulteaux joke referring to the appearance of a pioneer merchant.
Punnichy is along Highway 15 in the heart of the Touchwood Hills between Quinton and Lestock. It is surrounded by four First Nation reserves: Muskowekwan, Kawacatoose, Day Star, and Gordon. Punnichy was the location of one of the last operating residential schools in Canada, Gordon Indian Residential School, which closed in 1996.
Punnichy is part of the provincial constituency Last Mountain-Touchwood and federal constituency Regina—Qu'Appelle.
History
Punnichy incorporated as a village on October 22, 1909.
Demographics
(1981–2016) |1981|394 |1986|388 |1991|365 |1996|338 |2001|317 |2006|277 |2011|246 |2016|213 In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Punnichy had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 0.68 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.
In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Punnichy recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of 0.68 km2, it had a population density of in 2016.
Education
Punnichy has an elementary school, high school, and a Carlton Trail Regional College centre.
Punnichy Community High School is unique within the Horizon School Division, in that it is run on the quadmester system, with four terms in a school year. The students take four classes in the first quadamester, two each morning, and another two each afternoon. The first quadmester lasts 90 school days and the remaining 3 each last about 35 days. In the last 3 quadmesters, students take one class all morning and another all afternoon.{{Cite web | access-date = 2014-08-21}}
A satellite facility of Punnichy high school is the George Gordon Computer Education Centre in the community centre on Gordon First Nation. The facility assists First Nations students to return to school or pick up extra classes to move into post-secondary or job training. The program is "at your own pace" and is similar to "store front" programs in urban centres.
Gordon's Indian Residential School, located in Punnichy and which closed its doors in 1996, was one of the last federally-funded residential school in Canada.
Notable people
- [Nolan Yonkman, a defenceman for the Florida Panthers, was born in Punnichy
- Jim Sinclair, Indigenous political leader
- Jeffery Straker, singer
References
References
- "Urban Municipality Incorporations". Saskatchewan Ministry of Government Relations.
- "Saskatchewan Census Population". Saskatchewan Bureau of Statistics.
- "Saskatchewan Census Population". Saskatchewan Bureau of Statistics.
- (February 9, 2022). "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions (municipalities), Saskatchewan". [[Statistics Canada]].
- (February 8, 2017). "Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data (Saskatchewan)". [[Statistics Canada]].
- Miller, J.R. 2012 October 10. "[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/residential-schools Residential Schools in Canada]." ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'' (last edited 2020 September 2).
- "[https://nctr.ca/residential-schools/saskatchewan/gordons/ Gordon’s]." ''[[National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation]]''.
- "Shattering The Silence The Hidden History of Indian Residential Schools in Saskatchewan eBook".
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