Wynyard, Saskatchewan
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| Location in Saskatchewan | |||
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| Province : | Saskatchewan | ||
| Region: | Census Division No. 10 | ||
| Coordinates : | 51 ° 46 ′ N , 104 ° 11 ′ W | ||
| Height : | 555 m ( 550 m - 560 m ) | ||
| Area : | 5.29 km² | ||
| Residents : | 1767 (as of 2011) | ||
| Population density : | 334 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Municipality number: | HATMX | ||
| Postal code : | S0A 4T0 | ||
| Area code : | +1 306 | ||
| Foundation : | 1908 | ||
| Mayor : | Ted Czarnecki | ||
Wynyard is a small town with the status of a town in the province of Saskatchewan in Canada .
geography
Wynyard is located in the Canadian prairie landscape on the flat southern slope of an endorheic basin , in the center of which are the Quill Lakes . Magnusson Creek runs through the eastern part of the city , about one kilometer west of the city limits of Wynyard Creek . Both head north towards Big Quill Lake , it is around five kilometers to its confluence with the lake. Regina is about 150 kilometers to the south, Saskatoon about 170 kilometers to the west of Wynyard.
The small parish of Wynyards is completely covered by the Big Quill No. 308 , so it forms an enclave .
history
The first settlers of European origin who settled in the area south of the Quill Lakes and the Fishing Lakes from the 1890s came from Iceland . Your area called Vatnabyggd expanded in 1904/05 into the area around Wynyard. Decisive for the establishment of the place was the construction of a railway connection by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), which provided a station with extended service facilities for their steam locomotives at this point . In 1908 the place was officially founded with the status of a village and in 1911 it was upgraded to a town . As a result, people of British and mainly Ukrainian and Polish descent moved to the area. By 1930 Wynyard reached the thousand-inhabitant mark.
Demographics
The 2011 census showed a population of 1,767 inhabitants for the municipality. The population has increased by 1.3% compared to the last census in 2006, while the population in the province of Saskatchewan grew by 6.9% at the same time. The median age of the residents is 46.9 years, well above that of the province (Saskatchewan: 38.2 years).
Wynyard today
Wynyard forms the central location of a largely agricultural region. It is the seat of a provincial court that meets in a listed building built in 1927 based on a design by Maurice Sharon in the Colonial Revival style .
Wynyard includes a hospital with attached nursing home , public library, local museum, swimming pool and golf course , among others . Education is served by an elementary school and high school , and Wynyard is also one of four Carlton Trail Regional College campuses for higher education . Religious life is extremely diverse, a total of eight parishes of different Christian denominations are based in the city. Worth seeing is the Wynyard Federated Church , the church building of the Unitarian congregation , which nowadays no longer holds regular services.
The Quill Lakes, a few kilometers to the north, are an important bird sanctuary. One of the three associated information centers is located in Wynyard. About two and a half kilometers southwest of town is a smaller sanctuary called Wynyard Regional Park .
economy
In accordance with its central location, there are a variety of services in the city. The most important commercial company is Lilydale, a poultry processing company that normally employs around 350 people, and up to 550 at peak times. Founded in the 1940s as a cooperative of local farmers, Lilydale has been part of Sofina Foods since 2011 . Other important employers are the CPR, the hospital, an agricultural cooperative and the branches of supra-regional companies for agricultural needs. Also of note, but located in the rural community area, is Big Quill Resources, Canada's largest producer of potassium sulfate . Formerly part of the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan and now owned by the employees, the company has been part of Compass Minerals since 2011 . The extraction of potash salts ( sylvinite and carnallite ) in underground mining on the southern outskirts is, as of 2016, in the exploration phase .
traffic
On the southern edge of Wynyard, Highway 16 runs as a section of the Yellowhead Highway , in the northern part of the city the railway line from Winnipeg to Saskatoon . The Wynyard station is still served by freight , passenger traffic has ceased. Greyhound buses connect the city to Saskatoon, Yorkton and Winnipeg. The airfield Wynyard is located about four kilometers north of the city in the field of rural community.
Partner communities
Since 1972/73 there has been a community partnership with the French community of Les Martres-de-Veyre . It goes back to Peter Dmytruk , a resident of Wynyard, who was shot down in his plane over France as a member of the Canadian Air Force in 1943 , but survived. He then joined the Resistance until, ten months later , he fell into the hands of the German Wehrmacht and was shot dead in December 1943 in the French town . He is considered a hero there, posthumously he was awarded the Croix de guerre in 1947 .
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Entry Wynyard in the Saskatchewan Encyclopedia
- Wynyard's entry in the National Encyclopedia of Canada
- Statistics Canada 2011 census profile (English, French)
- Community Profile on the Saskatchewan Government website
- Wynyard listing in the Directory of Topographical Names of Canada on the Natural Resources Canada website (English, French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vatnabyggd: To Icelandic Settlement in Saskatchewan. Wadena & District Museum & Gallery exhibition on the Virtual Museum of Canada website, accessed June 26, 2016
- ^ Wynyard (Town) Community Profile. Census 2011. In: Statistics Canada . May 2, 2016, accessed July 4, 2016 .
- ^ Court Locations and Sitting Times. Information about the provincial courts on the Saskatchewan Court Administration website, accessed June 26, 2016
- ^ Wynyard Court House. Information on the building on Canada's Historic Places website, accessed June 26, 2016 (English, French)
- ^ Wynyard Hospital. Hospital and nursing home information on a Saskatchewan health care website, accessed June 26, 2016
- ↑ Campuses ( memento from June 26, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ) Overview of the locations on the college's website, accessed on June 26, 2016 (English)
- ^ Wynyard Federated Church. Church building information on Canada's Historic Places website, accessed June 26, 2016 (English, French)
- ^ Quill Lakes Visitor Centers. Overview of the information centers on the website of the administration of the bird sanctuary, accessed on June 26, 2016 (English)
- ↑ Link text ( Memento from June 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Information about the company on the Lilydale website, accessed on June 26, 2016 (English)
- ↑ Compass Minerals Wynyard Inc. Information about the company on the Government of Canada website, accessed June 26, 2016.
- ↑ Compass Minerals Acquires Canadian Sulfate of Potash Producer, Big Quill Resources Inc. Business Wire , January 10, 2011, accessed June 26, 2016
- ^ Wynyard Carnallite Project. ( Memento of June 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Information about the project on the company's website, accessed on June 26, 2016 (English)
- ↑ Overview of the stops and lines on the Greyhound website, as of spring 2016, accessed on June 26, 2016 (English)
- ↑ Dagmar Skamlová: entry Peter Dmytruk. ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Saskatchewan Encyclopedia, accessed June 26, 2016
