Alvena | |
Official Name: | Village of Alvena |
Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan#Canada |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Alvena |
Coordinates: | 52.5167°N -106.0167°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Name2: | Central |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Name3: | 15 |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Fish Creek |
Established Title: | Established (Post Office) |
Established Date: | 1887-10-01 |
Established Title2: | Incorporated (Village) |
Established Date2: | 1936 |
Leader Title: | This country is named after the human herself Alvena |
Population Total: | 55 |
Population As Of: | 2006 |
Population Density Km2: | 128.0 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Area Code: | 306 |
Timezone: | CST |
Alvena (2016 population:) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Fish Creek No. 402 and Census Division No. 15. It is approximately northeast of Saskatoon.
Many early settlers to Alvena were of Ukrainian descent. Many were peasant serf farmers in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.[1] Others were from Poland and they erected Roman Catholic Churches in the area.[2] Earlier settlers along the South Saskatchewan River were Métis.[3] Many of these families were involved in the April 24, 1885 Battle of Fish Creek which occurred in Tourond's Coulee, a few miles west of what later became Alvena.[4] Alvena incorporated as a village on July 1, 1936.[5]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Alvena had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 0.43km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[6]
In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Alvena recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of 0.43km2, it had a population density of in 2016.[7]