Archerwill ( 2021 population: ) is a

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in the

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within the Rural Municipality of Barrier Valley No. 397 and Census Division No. 14. The village is approximately north of Wadena, south of Tisdale and southeast of the city of Melfort. Since 1981 Archerwill has been the administrative centre of the RM of Barrier Valley.

History

The community is named, in a

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, after the

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and two

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s of the executive governing council of the RM of Barrier Valley in 1924. They were: Archie Campbell and Ervie Hanson, councilors; and William Pierce, secretary-treasurer. Archerwill incorporated as a village on January 1, 1947. Archerwill is located on the Wadena-to- Tisdale

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of the

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. However, the nearly 55-year-old railway station was torn down in the early 1980s; and the nearly 60-year-old

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and UGG elevators were torn down in the 1990s. The Archerwill Café (probably built in the late 1920s),Pederson 1984, page 11. most recently operating as Diner Thirty Five, burned down in a fire on June 23, 2016. The actions of the Archerwill Volunteer Fire Department, along with the Rose Valley Volunteer Fire Department — who arrived from away — saved the adjacent Archerwill Hotel and the post office.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Archerwill 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 Archerwill 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.

Attractions

Archerwill has a post office, an indoor ice skating rink with attached curling sheets,Pederson 1984, page 17. a community hall with an attached small public library, and a "Senior Citizens' Centre" social hall.

Education

Archerwill has an

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.Pederson 1984, pages 9, 16, and 79–80.

References

* Pederson, Laurette, ed. (1984). ''The Past to the Present''.

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, Saskatchewan: Turner-Warwick Publications Inc. * Villages in Saskatchewan Barrier Valley No. 397, Saskatchewan Division No. 14, Saskatchewan {{saskatchewan-geo-stub

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