| Official Name: | Southey |
| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan#Canada |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Southey in Saskatchewan |
| Coordinates: | 50.945°N -104.503°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
| Subdivision Name3: | 6 |
| Subdivision Type4: | Rural Municipality |
| Subdivision Name4: | Cupar |
| Government Type: | Mayor and Council |
| Leader Title1: | Mayor |
| Leader Name1: | Leigh Bishop |
| Leader Title3: | Administrator |
| Leader Name3: | Cindy Baumgartner |
| Established Title: | Post office Founded |
| Established Date: | 1905-10-16 |
| Established Title2: | Incorporated (Village) |
| Established Date2: | 1907 |
| Established Title3: | Incorporated (Town) |
| Established Date3: | 1980 http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/southey.html |
| Area Total Km2: | 1.56 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 832 |
| Population Density Km2: | 533.3 |
| Timezone: | CST |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | S0G 4P0 |
| Area Code: | 306 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Blank Info: | Highway 6 & Highway 22 |
| Blank1 Name: | Waterways |
| Blank1 Info: | Near the Qu'Appelle River |
| Footnotes: | [2] [3] |
Southey is a town in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It is on Highway 6, approximately 55 km north of Regina, the capital city of Saskatchewan.
Southey is named after a famous English poet, Robert Southey. Additionally, most of the streets of Southey are named after English and Scottish poets.
The vast prairie land of the North-West Territories was opened for settlement during the latter part of the 1880s and 1890s. Prior to this, the whole area was home to the First Nations people and their culture. Settlement by Europeans and Americans followed the river valleys and then the westward movement of the railway.
The first early settlement in the Southey area consisted of ranchers north and south of the present townsite. H.B. Chandler, one of the first settlers, filed on land on the south side of town in 1903. When the railway arrived in the area, he applied for the site to be named "Southey", after Robert Southey, one of his favourite English poets.
From this point on, the town grew and developed with the appearance of the first stores, school, banks, elevators, barber shop, hardware and implement dealers, restaurants, lumber yard, telephone system, sidewalks, fire brigades, and others in the 1905 - 1912 period. This growth allowed Southey to be incorporated in 1907–08. Subsequently, streets were named after other British writers and poets, so it is possible to travel down streets named Keats, Browning, Burns, Byron, Coleridge, Frost, Kipling, Milton, and others.
In 1988 Southey celebrated its 80th anniversary[4] and in 2008 the town had a 100th year celebration.[5]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Southey had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 1.56km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[6]
According to the 2011 census, Southey's median age was 39.9 years (males:37.4 yrs., females:42.0 yrs.) It had the median household income was $71,585.[7]
Southey has a curling rink, swimming pool, nearby golf courses, and an ice rink at the Southey Communiplex. The Southey Marlins of the senior men's Highway Hockey League play there, except right now the team is on a hiatus.[8]
The Robert Southey School is a K-12 school incorporating over 100 years of history. In 2006 Southey School celebrated its centenary.[9]
The people of Southey and District have four main centres for religious congregations:[10]
The Southey Cable Company is owned and operated by the Town of Southey under the guidance of the Southey Cable Committee.[11]
