Heward | |
Official Name: | Village of Heward |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan#Canada |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Heward in Saskatchewan |
Coordinates: | 49.737°N -103.146°W |
Pushpin Label Position: | none |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 200 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural Municipality |
Leader Title: | Governing body |
Leader Name: | Heward Village Council |
Leader Title1: | Mayor |
Leader Name1: | Doug Trowell |
Leader Title2: | Administrator |
Leader Name2: | Zandra Slater |
Leader Title3: | MP |
Leader Name3: | Robert Kitchen |
Leader Title4: | MLA |
Leader Name4: | Dan D'Autremont |
Established Title: | Post office Founded |
Established Title2: | Incorporated (Village) |
Area Total Km2: | 0.99 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Total: | 44 |
Population Density Km2: | 44.5 |
Population Blank1 Title: | National Population Rank |
Timezone: | CST |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0G 2G0 |
Area Code: | 306 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank1 Name: | Railways |
Heward (2016 population:) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Tecumseh No. 65 and Census Division No. 1. The village is located along Highway 33 in southeastern Saskatchewan. Even though it has under 50 people it still maintains a post office, rink, and hall that all service the farming community. In 1977, Prairie Trails and Tales: Heward Saskatchewan 1900-1976 was written by Muriel Dempsey.
Heward incorporated as a village on November 21, 1904.[1]
Bryce Dickey, born in Heward in 1908, wrote an extensive history of the village which is published in the summer 2007 issue of Folklore magazine. He describes how "Reverend Pike, an Englishman and a bachelor decided to build a new church and it was to be the same design and construction as one in England that had been lost to the sea due to coastal erosion." The chimes and font were from this church and were installed in the Heward church. When the church was finally closed, the chimes and font were sent to a church in Regina.[2]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Heward had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 0.92km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[3]
In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Heward recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of 0.99km2, it had a population density of in 2016.[4]