Official Name: | Cudworth |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Nickname: | The Hub of the Cities |
Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan#Canada |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Cudworth in Saskatchewan |
Coordinates: | 52.4833°N -148°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type2: | R.M. |
Subdivision Name2: | Hoodoo No. 401 |
Subdivision Type3: | Census Division |
Subdivision Name3: | Division 15 |
Established Title: | Settled |
Established Date: | early 1900s |
Established Title2: | Incorporated (village) |
Established Date2: | 1911 |
Established Title3: | Incorporated (town) |
Established Date3: | 1961 |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Charlee Medernach [1] |
Leader Title1: | Governing body |
Leader Name1: | Cudworth town council |
Leader Title2: | MP Saskatoon—University |
Leader Name2: | Brad Trost |
Leader Title3: | MLA Batoche |
Leader Name3: | Delbert Kirsch |
Area Total Km2: | 2.21 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Total: | 770 |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Density Km2: | 348.7 |
Timezone: | CST |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0K 1B0 |
Area Code: | 306 |
Blank1 Name: | Highways |
Website: | Official website |
Footnotes: | [3] |
Cudworth is a town in Saskatchewan, Canada. Cudworth is located approximately 85 km north-east of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in the Minnichinas Hills. Cudworth is in hilly partially forested country east of the South Saskatchewan River. The area is part of the aspen parkland biome.
Cudworth had a population of 770 people in 2011.[2] It has a public K-12 school, 60 local businesses and 3 churches serving the rural area surrounding it. It is surrounded by a large agricultural community.
The first pioneers settled the area west of modern-day Cudworth in the late 19th century. Established in 1911, the village was named after English philosopher Ralph Cudworth. Present day Cudworth continues to consist mainly of families with Ukrainian and German origins.
The town was originally peopled primarily by settlers of Eastern European origin including Germany, Hungary, Poland and Ukraine.[4]
In September 2008, Cudworth's grain elevator went up in flames. Cudworth was one of three Saskatchewan towns that still had an original Saskatchewan Wheat Pool elevator and a Canadian National Railway (CN) train station.
Located two miles west of Cudworth is the historic Our Lady of Sorrows Shrine. The site consists of an altar, chapel, statue and Stations of the Cross on a hill west of Highway 2. The shrine was established after three children saw a beautiful sad lady dragging chains and carrying a golden cross - when they approached her, she vanished. There is an annual pilgrimage on the tenth Sunday after Easter. It is an official pilgrimage of the Saskatoon Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy.[5]
The Cudworth Heritage Museum (former CN Station) (c. 1925) is a Municipal Heritage Property on the Canadian Register of Historic Places.[6]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Cudworth had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 2.12km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[7]
The municipality operates the Cudworth Municipal Airport.