Official Name: | Town of Unity |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Motto: | A good town in a good district |
Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan#Canada |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Unity in Saskatchewan |
Coordinates: | 52.4333°N -109.1667°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Rural municipality |
Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
Established Title: | Post office Founded |
Established Date: | 1909-04-01 |
Established Title2: | Village established |
Established Date2: | 1909-06-01 |
Established Title3: | Town incorporated |
Established Date3: | 1909-11-01 |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Sharon Del Frari |
Leader Title1: | Federal Electoral District Battlefords—Lloydminster MP |
Leader Name1: | Rosemarie Falk |
Area Land Km2: | 9.77 |
Population Total: | 2573 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Density Km2: | 244.6 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal Code |
Postal Code: | S0K 4L0 |
Area Code: | 306-228/210 |
Website: | Official Website |
Leader Title2: | Provincial Constituency Cut Knife-Turtleford MLA |
Leader Name2: | Ryan Domotor |
Timezone Dst: | CST |
Blank1 Name: | Highways |
Unity |
Unity is a town in the western part of the Canadian province of Saskatchewanwith a population of 2573. Unity is located at the intersection of Highway 14 and Highway 21, and the intersection of the CNR and CPR main rail lines. Unity is located 200km (100miles) west-northwest of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and 375km (233miles) southeast of Edmonton, Alberta. The town of Wilkie is located to the east.
The town was the subject of playwright Kevin Kerr's Governor General's Award-winning play Unity (1918), which dramatizes the effect of the 1918 flu pandemic on Unity.
With the coming of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1908 Unity began to grow from a small settlement in 1904 to about 600 in the 1920s. By 1966 there were 2,154 residents.[1]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Unity had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 9.7km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]
Attractions in Unity include:[3]
Two elementary schools, St. Peter's Catholic School and Unity Public School offer kindergarten to grade 6. Unity Composite High School] includes grades 7 to 12. The two public schools are in the Living Sky School Division No. 202.[4]
The population of the elementary schools ranges at about 150 students each, while UCHS is between 250 and 300 students with a graduating class of about 30 to 45 students per year.
The Unity railway station receives Via Rail service with The Canadian calling at Unity several times per week. Unity is on the Canadian National Railway tracks. In 1924, the Canadian Pacific Railway crossed the Canadian National Railway at Topaz just west of Unity.