Official Name: | Lampman |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan#Canada |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Southeast |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Name3: | Division No. 1 |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Rural Municipality of Browning No. 34 |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | John Jones |
Established Title: | Post office founded |
Established Date: | 1910-05-01 |
Established Title2: | Incorporated (Village) |
Established Date2: | 1910 |
Established Title3: | Town |
Established Date3: | 1963 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Total: | 735 |
Timezone: | CST |
Coordinates: | 49.3773°N -102.7621°W |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0C 1N0 |
Area Code: | 306 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank Info: | Highway 361 Highway 605 |
Blank1 Name: | Waterways |
Footnotes: | [1] [2] [3] |
Lampman is a town of around 735 people in the south-east part of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, roughly 30 miles north-east of Estevan.[4]
To the north-west of Lampman, is Lake Roy, which is a shallow lake that often floods into town. Lampman's water supply is obtained from two deep wells that go through a water treatment system.
The village of Lampman was founded on September 13, 1910. It gained the status of town on June 1, 1963.[5] It was named for Canadian poet Archibald Lampman, one of the Confederation Poets. It is also part of "Poet's Corner" in south-east Saskatchewan. Several communities and stops along the CN Railway in this part of the province were named after famous British and Canadian poets. Some of the other places include, Carlyle (Thomas Carlyle), Browning (Robert Browning), Service (Robert W. Service), Cowper (William Cowper), and Wordsworth (William Wordsworth).[6]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Lampman had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 2.13km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[7]
Lampman has one school that covers Kindergarten through grade 12.
Lampman has a community complex that includes an outdoor swimming pool, ice hockey arena, curling rink with four sheets of ice, and five baseball diamonds. The town also has a racetrack, golf course, campground, parks, and a walking path. The Lampman A's baseball team was inducted into the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame on August 18, 2012.
Lampman has volunteer ambulance service, volunteer fire department, and emergency rescue.
The town is serviced by a freight railway line, grain elevator, Lampman Airport (CJQ2),[8] and two highways, Highway 361 and Highway 605.