Official Name: | Town of Asquith |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Motto: | Centre of the British Empire |
Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan#Canada |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Asquith in Saskatchewan |
Pushpin Label Position: | none |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 200 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural Municipality |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Gail Erhart |
Leader Title1: | Town Manager |
Leader Name1: | Kathy Picketts |
Leader Title2: | Governing body |
Leader Name2: | Asquith Town Council |
Established Title: | Founded |
Established Date: | 1903 |
Established Title2: | Incorporated (Village) |
Established Date2: | 1907 |
Established Title3: | Incorporated (Town) |
Established Date3: | 1908 |
Area Land Km2: | 1.23 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Total: | 639 |
Population Density Km2: | 469.4 |
Timezone: | CST |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0K 0J0 |
Area Code: | 306 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank Info: | Highway 14 |
Website: | http://townofasquith.com |
Asquith is a town in south-central Saskatchewan, Canada, approximately west of Saskatoon. It became a village in December 1907. According to the 2011 Census, its population is 603.
Asquith has a 543-hectare conservation area.[1]
The site was largely the original lands settled by Ontario pioneers Andrew Mather and Jennet Mather, née Ainslie.[2] In 2015, a helicopter accident occurred near Asquith, which was investigated by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada.[3]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Asquith had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 1.37km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[4]