Official Name: | Govan |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan#Canada |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Govan in Saskatchewan |
Coordinates: | 51.311°N -104.995°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural Municipality |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Wesley Pearce |
Leader Title1: | Administrator |
Leader Name1: | Kelly Holbrook |
Leader Title2: | Governing body |
Leader Name2: | Govan Town Council |
Established Title: | Post office Founded |
Established Date: | 1906-06-01 |
Established Title2: | Incorporated (Village) |
Established Title3: | Incorporated (Town) |
Area Total Km2: | 1.35 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 200 |
Population Density Km2: | 159.7 |
Timezone: | CST |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0G 1Z0 |
Area Code: | 306 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank Info: | Highway 20 |
Blank1 Name: | Waterways |
Website: | Official website |
Footnotes: | [2] [3] |
Govan is a town in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan about north of Regina on Highway 20. In 2011, the town had 216 residents.
The first settlers made their homes along the shores of Long Lake (now known as Last Mountain Lake), at places close to McKillops's Landing, Arlington Beach, and Taylorboro. The original settlers used the waters of Last Mountain Lake, which is long, as a means of transportation. Supplies for the farmers were brought north up the lake and grain was taken down the lake in boats, then stored in elevators at the east end. This lake transportation system was abandoned when the early extension of the Canadian Pacific Railway Kirkella branch from Bulyea to Lanigan and on to Saskatoon was built, opening up more of the country to the settlers.
Some of the settlers came north from Craven, through Bulyea and Strasbourg districts. Others came up the waters on Long Lake.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Govan had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 1.27km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[4]
A men's senior ice hockey team from Govan was one of five founding teams in 1965 of the Highway Hockey League in central Saskatchewan.[5]