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Quill Lake
| Field | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| official_name | Quill Lake | |
| settlement_type | Village | |
| motto | Goose Capital of Saskatchewan | |
| pushpin_map | Saskatchewan#Canada | |
| pushpin_label_position | pushpin_mapsize = | |
| subdivision_type | Country | |
| subdivision_name | Canada | |
| subdivision_type1 | Province | |
| subdivision_name1 | Saskatchewan | |
| subdivision_type2 | Region | |
| subdivision_type3 | Census division | |
| subdivision_name3 | 10 | |
| subdivision_type4 | Rural Municipality | |
| subdivision_name4 | Lakeside | |
| leader_title | Deputy Mayor | |
| leader_name | Collin Holderness | |
| leader_title1 | Acting Administrator | |
| leader_name1 | Julie Marshall | |
| leader_title2 | Councillors | |
| leader_name2 | Jim Nicholls | |
| Vicky Kerns | ||
| Neil Marshall | ||
| Collin Holderness | ||
| established_title | Post office | |
| established_date | 1904-02-01 | |
| established_title2 | Incorporated (Village) | |
| established_date2 | 1907 | |
| established_title3 | Incorporated (Town) | |
| unit_pref | ||
| population_blank1_title | National Population Rank (Out of 5,008) | |
| population_density_blank1_km2 | population_density_blank1_sq_mi = | |
| timezone | CST | |
| coordinates | ||
| elevation_footnotes | ||
| postal_code_type | Postal code | |
| postal_code | S0A 3E0 | |
| area_code | 306 | |
| blank_name | Highways | |
| blank_info | Highway 5 | |
| Highway 640 | ||
| blank1_name | Waterways | |
| website | https://quilllake.ca Village of Quill Lake Website | |
| footnotes | {{Citation | |
| last | National Archives | |
| first | Archivia Net | |
| title | Post Offices and Postmasters | |
| url | http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/post-offices/001001-100.01-e.php | |
| url-status | dead | |
| archive-url | https://web.archive.org/web/20061006045957/http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/post-offices/001001-100.01-e.php | |
| archive-date | October 6, 2006 | |
| last | Government of Saskatchewan | |
| first | MRD Home | |
| title | Municipal Directory System | |
| url | http://www.mds.gov.sk.ca/apps/Pub/MDS/welcome.aspx | |
| url-status | dead | |
| archive-url | https://web.archive.org/web/20160115125115/http://www.mds.gov.sk.ca/apps/Pub/MDS/welcome.aspx | |
| archive-date | January 15, 2016 | |
| last | Commissioner of Canada Elections | |
| first | Chief Electoral Officer of Canada | |
| title | Elections Canada On-line | |
| year | 2005 | |
| url | http://www.elections.ca/home.asp | |
| url-status | dead | |
| archive-url | https://web.archive.org/web/20070421084430/http://www.elections.ca/home.asp | |
| archive-date | April 21, 2007 | |
| access-date | July 12, 2010 |
Vicky Kerns Neil Marshall Collin Holderness Highway 640 ||footnotes = {{Citation |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061006045957/http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/post-offices/001001-100.01-e.php |archive-date=October 6, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160115125115/http://www.mds.gov.sk.ca/apps/Pub/MDS/welcome.aspx |archive-date=January 15, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070421084430/http://www.elections.ca/home.asp |archive-date=April 21, 2007 |access-date=July 12, 2010
Quill Lake (2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Lakeside No. 338 and Census Division No. 10. It is 170 km east of Saskatoon and 200 km northeast of Regina.
The village is located just to the northwest of the Quill Lakes. The Quill Lakes wetland complex is a designated Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network site where many migrating shorebirds stop during long migrations. Because of this the village is also known by its residents as the "Goose Capital of Saskatchewan".
History
Quill Lake was originally established as Lally, named after a railway official of the day. Later it was renamed Quill Lake to conform to the name of the post office. The community was built around the site which was originally the location of a log school house. Quill Lake incorporated as a village on December 8, 1906.
;Heritage sites Quill Lake has one municipal heritage building, the St. Michael's Anglican Church, constructed between 1907 and 1913. The wood building was built in the Gothic revival style and has a fieldstone foundation. It was previously known as the Quill Lake United Church and the Quill Lake Methodist Church. The building was designated a heritage building in 2000.
Demographics
(1981–2016) |1981|514 |1986|517 |1991|464 |1996|463 |2001|439 |2006|413 |2011|409 |2016|387 In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Quill Lake had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 1.32 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.
In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Quill Lake recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of 1.3 km2, it had a population density of in 2016.
Notable people
- Ray Meiklejohn, former Saskatchewan cabinet minister
- Lyle Odelein, former NHL hockey player
- Selmar Odelein, former NHL hockey player
References
References
- "Urban Municipality Incorporations". Saskatchewan Ministry of Government Relations.
- [http://heritageapp.cyr.gov.sk.ca/assets/pdf/18.pdf St. Michael's Anglican Church] {{webarchive. link. (July 6, 2011)
- "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]].
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