Official Name: | Smiley, Saskatchewan |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan#Canada |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Smiley in Saskatchewan |
Coordinates: | 51.3803°N -109.2813°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: | West-central |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Prairiedale Website - www.major.ca |
Leader Name: | Leader_title1 = Administrator |
Leader Name1: | Charlotte Helfrich |
Leader Title2: | Governing body |
Leader Name2: | Smiley Village Council |
Established Title: | Post office Founded |
Established Title2: | Incorporated (Village) |
Area Total Km2: | 0.64 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 25 |
Population Density Km2: | 39.1 |
Population Blank1 Title: | National Population Rank (Out of 5,008) |
Timezone: | CST |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0L 2Z0 |
Area Code: | 306 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank Info: | Highway 51 |
Blank1 Name: | Railway |
Blank1 Info: | Canadian National Railway - Transferred to Canadian Pacific Railway - Abandoned 1997 |
Smiley (2016 population:) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Prairiedale No. 321 and Census Division No. 13. The village is located approximately 20 km northwest of the town of Kindersley at the intersection of Highway 307 and Highway 772. The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway was completed in 1913, bringing an economic boom to the village's early years. On April 26, 1987 the Dodsland subdivision between Dodsland and Smiley was transferred to the Canadian Pacific Railway.[1] Due to the close proximity to major grain centres such as Kindersley, CPR put the line up for abandonment and was granted permission to remove the track by the Canadian Transportation Agency on October 29, 1997.[2]
An F3 tornado struck here leaving a 10-kilometre path and taking two unknown lives on July 6, 1935.
Smiley incorporated as a village on November 26, 1913.[3]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Smiley had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 0.62km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[4]
In the 2016 Census of Population, the village of Smiley recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of 0.64km2, it had a population density of in 2016.[5]