Marquis ( 2016 population: ) is a

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in the

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within the Rural Municipality of Marquis No. 191 and Census Division No. 7. It is on Highway 42 about 32 km northwest of

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History

Marquis incorporated as a village on March 21, 1910.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Marquis had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Marquis recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.

Economy

Businesses and services in the village include a general store/liquor store franchise, a

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, a municipal office, a sand blasting and painting facility, and a service station. The primary economic base is

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people ...

. Marquis is located on the

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line. As in many Saskatchewan communities, Marquis's

grain elevator A grain elevator is a facility designed to stockpile or store grain. In the grain trade, the term "grain elevator" also describes a tower containing a bucket elevator or a pneumatic conveyor, which scoops up grain from a lower level and deposi ...

s were torn down during the 1990s.

References

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History

Demographics

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