Elfros | |
Official Name: | Village of Elfros |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan#Canada |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Elfros in Saskatchewan |
Coordinates: | 51.7417°N -103.8639°W |
Pushpin Label Position: | none |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 200 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Central |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural Municipality |
Government Type: | Municipal |
Leader Title: | Governing body |
Leader Name: | Elfros Village Council |
Leader Title1: | Mayor |
Leader Name1: | Arleigh Helgason |
Leader Title2: | Administrator |
Leader Name2: | Tina Heistad Douglas |
Established Title: | Post office Founded |
Established Title2: | Incorporated (Village) |
Established Title3: | Incorporated (Town) |
Area Total Km2: | 2.52 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Total: | 90 |
Population Density Km2: | 37.5 |
Timezone: | CST |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0A 0V0 |
Area Code: | 306 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank Info: | |
Blank1 Name: | Railways |
Elfros (2016 population:) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Elfros No. 307 and Census Division No. 10. It is northeast of Regina and southeast of the Quill Lakes at the junction of Highway 16 and Highway 35. It was the hometown of the protagonist in the 2018 Canadian horror film Archons.
Elfros was first settled by Icelandic immigrants, and many of the present inhabitants are of Icelandic descent. A post office was opened in 1909.[1] Elfros incorporated as a village on December 1, 1909.[2]
From the Icelandic Pioneer Memorial in Elfros comes the following quotation.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Elfros had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 2.48km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[3]
In the 2016 Census of Population, the village of Elfros recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of 2.52km2, it had a population density of in 2016.[4]