Speers, Saskatchewan | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan#Canada |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | West-Central |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Name3: | 16 |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Douglas |
Leader Title: | Governing body |
Leader Name: | Speers Village Council |
Leader Title1: | Mayor |
Leader Name1: | Kenneth Rebeyka[1] |
Leader Title2: | Administrator |
Leader Name2: | Dean Nicholson |
Leader Title3: | MP, Carlton Trail—Eagle Creek |
Leader Name3: | Kelly Block (2021) |
Leader Title4: | MLA, Biggar-Sask Valley |
Leader Name4: | Randy Weekes (2020) |
Established Title: | Established |
Established Date: | 1913 |
Established Title2: | Incorporated (Village) |
Established Date2: | 1915 |
Area Total Km2: | 0.68 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 72 |
Population Density Km2: | 105.9 |
Timezone: | CST |
Coordinates: | 52.4235°N -107.333°W |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0M 2V0 |
Area Code: | 306 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank Info: | Highway 40 |
Blank1 Name: | Railways |
Blank1 Info: | Canadian National Railway |
Speers (2021 population:) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Douglas No. 436 and Census Division No. 16. The village is located approximately 50km (30miles)} southeast of the City of North Battleford on Highway 40.
The community is named for Charles Wesley Speers, the colonization agent for Western Canada, who came from Eastern Canada to settle at Griswold, Manitoba, in 1884.
Speers incorporated as a village on December 24, 1915.[2]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Speers had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 0.68km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[3]
In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Speers recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of 0.69km2, it had a population density of in 2016.[4]