Coleville, Saskatchewan
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Coleville is an oil and farming village in western Saskatchewan, Canada, namesake of the Coleville oilfields. The population consists of approximately 250 steady residents, swelling to 400 or more when the price of oil rises. The village is named for Malcolm Cole who became the community's first postmaster in 1908. Coleville is located in the Rural Municipality of Oakville No. 320, Saskatchewan, and is the only population center in the municipality.
Coleville today has groceries, liquor vendors, a hotel, credit union, post office, and a library. In addition, Coleville maintains a skating rink and a two-sheet curling rink, and at nearby Lang's Park—also refered to as the three-mile park, in reference to it's distance from town—are several ball diamonds and a nine-hole golfcourse, complete with a pumpjack hazard.
Coleville is located within the Sun West School Division. Children attend the Rossville School located within the community for grades a K-7. For grades 8-12 students are bused to the Kindersley Composite School, located approximately twenty minutes away in Kindersley, Saskatchewan. The Warwick School, a one-room schoolhouse, was the previous school for the area. After Rossville School was built, it continued to serve the community, first as the location of the town library, and then the local Scout hall.
A plaque outside the Municipal Office on Main Street commemorates the area pioneers and the meeting of the Medicine Hat and North Battleford pioneer trails.
Celebrated author of such children's books as, The Mystery of the Turtle Lake Monster and Suspicion Island, Jeni Mayer, was born and raised in Coleville.
[edit] Statistics
According to the Canada 2006 Census:
| * Population: | 248 (-20.8% from 2001) |
| * Land area: | 1.27 km² |
| * Population density: | 195.6 people/km² |
| * National population rank (Out of 5,008): | Ranked 3,849 |
| * Median age:† | 31.6 (males: 30.5, females: 32.8) |
| * Total private dwellings: | 121 |
| * Dwellings occupied by permanent residents: | 111 |
| * Mean household income:↑ | $44,431 |
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Footnotes: ↑ The data has not yet been released and is based on 2001 Census.
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