Edgeley, Saskatchewan
Edgeley is a hamlet in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan and formerly (until the rationalisation of operations by the major Canadian grain-buying companies) the location of some half-dozen grain elevators.
At the outset of settlement of this part of the Canadian prairies, Edgeley was a centre of the Methodist Church of Canada's Qu'Appelle-Edgeley Circuit which later, in 1925, was absorbed into the United Church of Canada.[1]
Once reached by road west of Highway 35 in the once densely populated Qu'Appelle-Fort Qu'Appelle hinterland as well as by rail, its significance has lapsed since the opening of Highway 10 from Balgonie to Fort Qu'Appelle and beyond to PTH 5 at the Manitoba border in the early 1960s, as it has been immediately adjacent to a major throughway.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Edgeley had a population of 41 living in 21 of its 21 total private dwellings, a change of -8.9% from its 2016 population of 45. With a land area of 0.16 km2 (0.062 sq mi), it had a population density of 256.3/km2 (663.7/sq mi) in 2021.[2]
References
- ^ See Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan.
- ^ "Population and dwelling counts: Canada and designated places". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved August 31, 2022.
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