Arran | |
Settlement Type: | Special service area |
Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan#Canada |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Arran in Saskatchewan |
Coordinates: | 51.5304°N -101.4307°W |
Pushpin Label Position: | none |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 200 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Southeastern |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural municipality |
Government Type: | Arran Village Council |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Brenda Holtkamp |
Established Title: | Post office |
Established Title2: | Incorporated (village) |
Established Date2: | September 21, 1916 |
Established Title3: | Dissolved |
Established Date3: | January 1, 2023 |
Area Land Km2: | 0.72 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 20 |
Timezone: | CST |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Area Code: | 306 |
Arran (2021 population:) is a special service area in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Livingston No. 331 and Census Division No. 9. It held village status between 1916 and 2022.
The area around Arran was part of the "North Reserve", also known as "Thunder Hill Reserve", one of the block settlement areas allocated for the Doukhobor immigrants who arrived in 1899 from Russia's Transcaucasian provinces.[1]
Arran incorporated as a village on September 21, 1916.[2] It restructured on January 1, 2023, relinquishing its village status in favour of becoming a special service area under the jurisdiction of the Rural Municipality of Livingston No. 331.[3] The community was named after the Isle of Arran in Scotland.[4]
Arran is on Highway 49 approximately northeast of the City of Yorkton and west of the Manitoba boundary.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Arran had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 0.72km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[6]
In the 2016 Census of Population, Arran had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of 0.69km2, it had a population density of in 2016.[7]
Arran School opened on November 30, 1914, and closed on June 30, 1994.[8] [9]