Official Name: | Dollard |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | CAN SK Arlington#Saskatchewan |
Coordinates: | 49.6156°N -108.5861°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural Municipality |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Established Title: | Post office Founded |
Established Date: | 1909 |
Established Title2: | Village established |
Established Date2: | 1910 |
Area Total Km2: | 0.63 |
Population As Of: | 2001 |
Population Total: | 35 |
Population Density Km2: | 55.4 |
Timezone: | CST |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Area Code: | 306 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank Info: | Highway 13 |
Blank1 Name: | Industries |
Blank1 Info: | Agriculture Oil Trucking |
Footnotes: | [1] |
Dollard is an unincorporated community, within the Rural Municipality of Arlington No. 79, Saskatchewan, Canada. The community is situated on the historic Red Coat Trail in the southwest corner of the province, 13 km west of the town of Shaunavon and 21 km east of the town of Eastend. It is approximately 100 km from the Montana USA border and 130 km to the Alberta border.
By 1908 enough French speaking settlers had arrived in the region to establish a community which they named Valroy (Val Roy). The name was later changed to Dollard. The name Dollard was chosen by Father Louis-Pierre Gravel (the founder of Gravelbourg) to honour the memory of a hero of New France, Adam Dollard, Sieur des Ormeaux.[2] [3]
A post office was established in 1909 and in 1911 the church of Sainte-Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) was built. A store soon followed and then a school in 1912.[3]
The post office closed in 1988.[1]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Dollard had a population of 20 living in 11 of its 14 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 5. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.[4]
The character Wanda Dollard from the Canadian comedy television series Corner Gas is named for this town.