Bracken | |
Official Name: | Village of Bracken |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | CAN SK Lone Tree#Saskatchewan |
Coordinates: | 49.1795°N -108.094°W |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 200 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Southwest |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural municipality |
Government Type: | Municipal |
Leader Title: | Governing body |
Leader Name: | Bracken Village Council |
Leader Title1: | Mayor |
Leader Name1: | Steve Dueck |
Leader Title2: | Administrator |
Leader Name2: | Monique Fehr |
Leader Title3: | MLA |
Leader Title4: | MP |
Established Title: | Post office Founded |
Established Title2: | Incorporated (Village) |
Area Total Km2: | 0.60 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Total: | 25 |
Population Density Km2: | 33.5 |
Timezone: | CST |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0N 0G0 |
Area Code: | 306 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank1 Name: | Railway |
Blank1 Info: | Great Western Railway |
Bracken (2016 population:) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Lone Tree No. 18 and Census Division No. 4. The village is named after John Bracken, Premier of Manitoba and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, who was a professor at the University of Saskatchewan. The small village is located approximately 160 km south of the City of Swift Current on Highway 18, directly north of Grasslands National Park, and approximately 20 km north of the Montana-Saskatchewan border.
Bracken incorporated as a village on January 4, 1926.[1]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Bracken had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 0.63km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]
In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Bracken recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of 0.6km2, it had a population density of in 2016.[3]
Students in Bracken are bused to Frontier, which has a school that covers kindergarten through grade 12 in the Chinook School Division.