Briercrest | |
Official Name: | Village of Briercrest |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan#Canada |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Southeast |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural Municipality |
Government Type: | Municipal |
Leader Title: | Governing body |
Leader Name: | Briercrest Village Council |
Leader Title1: | Mayor |
Leader Name1: | William Duncan |
Leader Title2: | Administrator |
Leader Name2: | Linda Senchuk |
Leader Title3: | MP |
Leader Title4: | MLA |
Established Title: | Post office Founded |
Established Date: | 1903 |
Established Title2: | Incorporated (Village) |
Area Total Km2: | 0.62 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Total: | 159 |
Population Density Km2: | 256.4 |
Timezone: | CST |
Coordinates: | 50.1°N -105.16°W |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0H 0K0 |
Area Code: | 306 |
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Website: | Village of Briercrest |
Briercrest (2016 population:) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Redburn No. 130 and Census Division No. 6. The village is approximately 42 km southeast of the City of Moose Jaw and 77 km southwest of the City of Regina. When the post office formed in 1903, it was a part of the Federal Electoral District: Assiniboia, North West Territories, as well as part of the provisional district of Assiniboia West, North West Territories, until the province of Saskatchewan was formed in 1905.
Briercrest incorporated as a village on April 17, 1912.[1]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Briercrest had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 0.69km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]
In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Briercrest recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of 0.62km2, it had a population density of in 2016.[3]
Coventry School Division (SD) 213, North West Territories (NWT) was one of the first one-room schools started in 1891. Hipperholme SD 467, NWT soon followed in 1899. Many more one-room school districts developed in the early 1900s to survive until the mid-20th century when they were gradually replaced with the Briercrest Family of Schools.