Paddockwood, Saskatchewan Explained

Official Name:Paddockwood
Settlement Type:Village
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Saskatchewan
Subdivision Type2:Rural municipality
Subdivision Name2:Paddockwood
Subdivision Type3:Federal Electoral District
Subdivision Name3:Prince Albert
Subdivision Type4:Provincial Constituency
Subdivision Name4:Saskatchewan Rivers
Leader Title:Mayor
Leader Name:Hintz Reg (2005)
Established Title:Settled
Established Title2:Incorporated (Village)
Population As Of:125 (2007)
Timezone:Central
Utc Offset:-6
Coordinates:53.5167°N -139°W

Paddockwood (2016 population:) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Paddockwood No. 520 and Census Division No. 15. It was named after the town Paddock Wood in Kent, England.

In the early 1900s, Fred Pitts immigrated to the lumberland of Canada. From a log cabin he built there as a home, he set up a post office, collecting letters and parcels on horseback for residents of the settlement. He named the settlement Paddockwood after the village he had left in England.

Paddockwood was the home of the first Red Cross hospital in the British Empire, and was set up after the First World War.

Paddockwood is served by the Paddockwood Public Library as well as a nine-hole golf course, the Helbig's Forest Course. Paddockwood belongs to the Saskatchewan Provincial Constituency of Saskatchewan Rivers and the Federal Electoral District of Prince Albert.

History

Paddockwood incorporated as a village on January 1, 1949.[1]

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Paddockwood had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 0.65km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]

In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Paddockwood recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of 0.65km2, it had a population density of in 2016.[3]

References

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Urban Municipality Incorporations . Saskatchewan Ministry of Government Relations . June 1, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141015042810/http://municipal.gov.sk.ca/Municipal-History/Urban-Incorporated-Dates . October 15, 2014.
  2. Web site: Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions (municipalities), Saskatchewan . . February 9, 2022 . April 1, 2022.
  3. Web site: Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data (Saskatchewan) . . February 8, 2017 . May 30, 2020.