Girvin, Saskatchewan

Girvin
Hamlet

King Street
Motto: Here People Count

Location of Girvin in Saskatchewan

Coordinates: 51°09′00″N 105°55′02″W / 51.15°N 105.9172°W / 51.15; -105.9172
Country Canada
Province Saskatchewan
Region Saskatchewan
Census division 11
Rural Municipality Arm River
unincorporated (Hamlet) December 19, 2005
Area
 • Total 3.8 km2 (1.5 sq mi)
Population (2006)
 • Total 20
 • Density 5.3/km2 (14/sq mi)
Postal code S0G 1X0
Area code(s) 306
Highways Highway 11
Highway 749
Waterways
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Girvin is a former village of 20 people in Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located midway between Regina and Saskatoon on Highway 11. The village was formally dissolved in 2005; its remaining population is now counted as part of the rural municipality of Arm River.[5]

Demographics

Prior to December 19, 2005, Girvin was incorporated as a village, and was restructured as a hamlet under the jurisdiction of the Rural municipality of Big Arm on that date.[6]

Girvin Pump house

Built in the 1906, it is known as the only pump house in Saskatchewan making it a Provincial historic site of Saskatchewan on September 14, 1994,[8] the pump house was constructed to provide access to water for horses used to haul grain to Girvin.

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ National Archives, Archivia Net, Post Offices and Postmasters
  2. ↑ Government of Saskatchewan, MRD Home, Municipal Directory System (– Scholar search)
  3. ↑ Canadian Textiles Institute. (2005), CTI Determine your provincial constituency
  4. ↑ Commissioner of Canada Elections, Chief Electoral Officer of Canada (2005), Elections Canada On-line
  5. ↑ "Saskatchewan Health Covered Population 2006". Saskatchewan Health. 2006-06-30. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
  6. ↑ "Restructured Villages". Saskatchewan Ministry of Municipal Affairs. Archived from the original on March 25, 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-10.
  7. ↑ "2006 Community Profiles". Canada 2006 Census. Statistics Canada. March 30, 2011. Retrieved 2009-02-24.
  8. ↑ Girvin Pump House http://heritageapp.cyr.gov.sk.ca/assets/pdf/48.pdf
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Coordinates: 51°09′00″N 105°55′02″W / 51.15°N 105.9172°W / 51.15; -105.9172

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