The Northern Saskatchewan Administration District (NSAD) is the
unincorporated area
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
of Northern
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada. It is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the ...
, Canada. It encompasses approximately half of Saskatchewan's land mass. Despite its extent, the majority of Saskatchewanians live in the southern half of the province, while the majority of northern Saskatchewanians live in incorporated municipalities outside the NSAD's jurisdiction. The area is co-extensive with Division No. 18, Saskatchewan,
one of
Statistics Canada's census division
Census divisions, in Canada and the United States, are areas delineated for the purposes of statistical analysis and presentation; they have no government in and of themselves. The census divisions of Canada are second-level census geographic uni ...
s in the province for its
2016 census.
The census division is the largest in the province terms of area at , representing 46 per cent of the province's entire area of .
The most populous communities in the census division are
La Ronge
La Ronge is a List of municipalities in Saskatchewan, northern town in the boreal forest of Canada, boreal forest of Saskatchewan, Canada. The town is also the namesake of the larger #Population centre, La Ronge population centre, the largest ...
and
La Loche
La Loche () is a village in northwest Saskatchewan. It is located at the end of Highway 155 on the eastern shore of Lac La Loche in Canada's boreal forest. La Loche had a population of 2,827 in 2016 and is within the Northern Saskatchewan Adminis ...
with populations of 2,743 and 2,611 respectively.
The
2016 census also refers to the Unorganized Division No. 18, which counted only 1,115 residents, which placed its population density at for every inhabitant. The district has no local government and is directly subject to the
Minister of Government Relations.
History
An unincorporated Northern Saskatchewan region was first established by the 1948 ''Northern Administration Act''.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...
conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Division No. 18 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.
Division No. 18, Unorganized is an
unorganized area
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in northern
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada. It is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the ...
. It consists of all of Division No. 18, excluding municipalities and
reserves. It has a population of 1,641 as of 2011, and an area of 268,389.99 km
2.
Census subdivisions
Division No. 18 has 58
census subdivision
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s, of which 24 are municipalities (including a portion of the city of
Flin Flon
Flin Flon (pop. 5,185 in 2016 census; 4,982 in Manitoba and 203 in Saskatchewan) is a mining city, located on a correction line on the border of the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, with the majority of the city located withi ...
, a city bisected by the Saskatchewan-
Manitoba
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border, 2 northern towns, 11 northern villages and 10 northern hamlets), 32 are First Nations communities (31
Indian reserve
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s and an
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A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acqui ...
), an unincorporated northern settlement and the unorganized balance of Division No. 18. All municipalities within the census division, except for the Northern Hamlet of
Black Point, are recognized as census subdivisions.
City
Northern towns
Northern villages
Northern hamlets
Indian settlement
Indian reserves
Unincorporated communities
A northern settlement is an unincorporated community in the Northern Saskatchewan Administration District, and its administration is regulated by The Northern Municipalities Act.
Saskatchewan has 11 northern settlements.
[ One northern settlement, ]Missinipe
Missinipe (Woodland Cree: ''Misi-nipiy'' or ''Mahttawi-sipiy''), meaning "big water" or "difficult river", is a northern settlement in northern Saskatchewan along the western shore of Otter Lake. The northern settlement is north of La Ronge a ...
, is recognized as a census subdivision by Statistics Canada.
See also
* Unorganized Yukon, a comparable part of Yukon
Yukon () is a Provinces and territories of Canada, territory of Canada, bordering British Columbia to the south, the Northwest Territories to the east, the Beaufort Sea to the north, and the U.S. state of Alaska to the west. It is Canada’s we ...
* Unincorporated Far West Region
The Unincorporated Far West Area is an unincorporated area in the Far West region of New South Wales, Australia. The area is one of only two areas in New South Wales that are not part of any local government area (the other is Lord Howe Island ...
of New South Wales
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, a comparable part of Australia
* Unorganized Borough, Alaska
The Unorganized Borough is composed of the portions of the U.S. state of Alaska which are not contained in any of its 19 organized boroughs. While referred to as the "Unorganized Borough", it is not a borough itself, as it forgoes that level ...
References
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Local government in Saskatchewan
Unincorporated areas of Canada