Official Name: | Parkbeg, Saskatchewan |
Settlement Type: | Hamlet |
Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan#Canada |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Parkbeg in Saskatchewan |
Coordinates: | 50.45°N -106.2667°W |
Pushpin Label Position: | none |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 200 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural Municipality |
Leader Title: | Governing body |
Leader Name: | Wheatlands No. 163 |
Leader Title1: | Reeve |
Leader Title2: | Administrator |
Leader Name2: | Angela Molde |
Leader Title3: | MP |
Leader Name3: | Jeremy Patzer (Cypress Hills—Grasslands) |
Leader Title4: | MLA |
Leader Name4: | Doug Steele (Cypress Hills) |
Established Title: | Post office Founded |
Established Date: | 1911 |
Established Title2: | Incorporated (Village) |
Established Date2: | 1920 |
Established Title3: | Restructured (Hamlet) |
Established Date3: | December 31, 1957 |
Population As Of: | 2006 |
Timezone: | CST |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0H 0E0 |
Area Code: | 306 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank Info: | Highway 1 Highway 627 |
Blank1 Name: | Railways |
Blank1 Info: | Canadian Pacific Railway |
Parkbeg is a hamlet in Wheatlands Rural Municipality No. 163, Saskatchewan, Canada. The hamlet is located at the junction of Highway 1 and Highway 627 approximately 58 km directly west of the City of Moose Jaw on the Trans Canada Highway.
Parkbeg, like so many other small communities throughout Saskatchewan, has struggled to maintain a sturdy population causing it to become a semi ghost town with only a few citizens. Prior to December 31, 1957, Parkbeg was incorporated under village status, but was restructured to hamlet status under the jurisdiction of the Rural municipality of Wheatlands on that date.[1]
Parkbeg has a café that also serves as a post office. There was also a grain elevator owned by Paterson Grain which was serviced by the Canadian Pacific Railway but which has now been demolished.[2]
Gainer the Gopher is the mascot of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, a Canadian Football League team. He is from Parkbeg.[3]