Wakaw

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Wakaw
Wakaw Saskatchewan Business District 2010.jpg
Location in Saskatchewan
Wakaw (Saskatchewan)
Wakaw
Wakaw
State : CanadaCanada Canada
Province : Saskatchewan
Coordinates : 52 ° 39 ′  N , 105 ° 44 ′  W Coordinates: 52 ° 39 ′  N , 105 ° 44 ′  W
Area : 3.12 km²
Residents : 985 (as of 2011)
Population density : 315.7 inhabitants / km²
Time zone : Central Time ( UTC − 6 )
Postal code : S0K 4P0
Foundation : 1911
Mayor : Ed Kidd
Website : www.townofwakaw.com

Wakaw is a small town (town) in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan . In 2011 it had 985 inhabitants. The name comes from the language of the Cree and means "curved", which is due to the shape of the adjacent lake Wakaw Lake .

location

View over Wakaw Lake

Wakaw is located approximately 90 kilometers northeast of Saskatoon and approximately 65 kilometers south of Prince Albert . The city is located west of the eponymous Wakaw Lake and about 25 kilometers east of the South Saskatchewan River . The area is also part of the Aspen Parkland , an extensive ecoregion in North America.

In the political structure of Saskatchewan, Wakaw belongs to the Census Division No. 15 .

history

In the 80s and 90s of the 19th century, the settlement of the area around Wakaw began, with the people living mainly from ranching . The settlers were predominantly of Ukrainian and Hungarian origin, so in 2011 110 of 985 inhabitants stated Ukrainian as their mother tongue. In 1903 a Presbyterian mission was established west of Wakaw Lake , followed by a post office in 1905 and a small hospital in 1906 . As a result, the Wakaw Church was organized in 1911. The place experienced a significant expansion after the construction of a railway line only about one kilometer west of the lake, which pulled the core of the community further towards the lake. After the population had increased in the 1930s, already a few hundred, the place gained on August 1, 1953 status of a small town (Town) .

More recently, the city's population increased by 14% from 2006 to 2011. The extended catchment area includes around a thousand country cottages or holiday homes that are distributed around the lake.

City personalities

  • John Diefenbaker (1895–1979), worked as a lawyer in Wakaw for five years at the beginning of his career and later became Prime Minister of Canada
  • Dave Balon (1938-2007), ice hockey player
  • Linden Vey (* 1991), ice hockey player

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Census Profile: Wakaw. statcan.gc.ca, October 24, 2012, accessed February 19, 2015 .
  2. Acton DF, Padbury GA, Stushnoff CT: Ecoregions of Saskatchewan. Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina, Regina, 1998, p. 135, ISBN 0-88977-097-2 .
  3. ^ Post Offices and Postmasters of Wakaw. bac-lac.gc.ca, May 27, 2014, accessed on February 20, 2015 .