A
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
is a type of incorporated
urban municipality in the
Canadian province
Within the geographical areas of Canada, the ten provinces and three territories are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution. In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North ...
of
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada, western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on t ...
.
A
resort village
A resort village is a type of incorporated urban municipality in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. A resort village is created from an organized hamlet by the Minister of Municipal Affairs by ministerial order via section 51 of ''The Municip ...
or a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
can be incorporated as a town by the Minister of Municipal Affairs via section 52 of ''The Municipalities Act'' if:
*Requested by the council of the resort village or village; and
*the resort village or village has a population of 500 or more.
Saskatchewan has 146 towns
[ that had a cumulative population of 137,725 and an average population of 943 in the 2011 Census.][ Saskatchewan's largest and smallest towns are ]Kindersley
Kindersley is a town surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Kindersley No. 290 in west-central Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located along Highway 7, a primary highway linking Calgary, Alberta and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. At a population of 4,597 ...
and Scott with populations of 4,678 and 75 respectively.
List
Gallery
File:Main Street Grenfell.jpg, Main Street, Grenfell, 1980. Note grain elevators, from the outset of settlement the predominating feature of prairie towns; now long removed.
File:Downtown Carlyle.jpg, Main Street Carlyle
File:Stoughton SK - main street.jpg, Main Street Stoughton
File:Main Street Aberdeen Saskatchewan.jpg, Main Street Aberdeen
File:Broadview_Saskatchewan_Main_Street_2014.jpg, Broadview Main Street c. 2014
File:Business District Rosthern Saskatchewan.jpg, Rosthern business district
See also
*List of communities in Saskatchewan
Communities in the Province of Saskatchewan, Canada include incorporated municipalities, unincorporated communities and First Nations communities.
Types of incorporated municipalities include urban municipalities, rural municipalities and nort ...
*List of municipalities in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is the sixth-most populous province in Canada with 1,132,505 residents as of 2021 and is the fifth-largest in land area at . In 2021, Saskatchewan's 774 municipalities covered of the province's land mass and were home to of ...
References
{{Subdivisions of Saskatchewan, towns=yes
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Towns
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...