Wakaw Lake | |
Official Name: | Resort Village of Wakaw Lake |
Settlement Type: | Resort village |
Mapsize: | 200 |
Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Name3: | 15 |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | RM of Hoodoo No. 401 |
Subdivision Type5: | Federal riding |
Subdivision Type6: | Provincial riding |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Maurice Rivard |
Leader Title1: | Governing body |
Leader Name1: | Resort Village Council |
Leader Title2: | Administrator |
Leader Name2: | Hilkewich Pamela |
Leader Title3: | Clerk |
Established Title: | Founded |
Established Title2: | Incorporated |
Established Date2: | October 21, 1959 |
Area Footnotes: | (2016) |
Area Land Km2: | 0.59 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Total: | 72 |
Population Density Km2: | 116.1 |
Timezone: | CST |
Timezone Dst: | CST |
Coordinates: | 52.643°N -105.637°W[1] |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0K 4P0 |
Area Code: | 306 and 639 |
Blank Name: | Highway(s) |
Blank Info: | Highway 41 |
Blank1 Name: | Railway(s) |
Blank1 Info: | WRI |
Blank2 Name: | Waterway(s) |
Blank2 Info: | Wakaw Lake |
Wakaw Lake (2016 population:) is a resort village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within Census Division No. 15. It is on the shores of Wakaw Lake in the Rural Municipality of Hoodoo No. 401. It is on Highway 41 approximately north-east of Saskatoon and south of Prince Albert.
Wakaw Lake incorporated as a resort village on October 21, 1959.[2] The resort village takes its name from a nearby lake of the same name "Wakaw Lake", which is Cree meaning "crooked."
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Wakaw Lake had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 0.61km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[3]
In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Resort Village of Wakaw Lake recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of 0.62km2, it had a population density of in 2016.[4]
The Resort Village of Wakaw Lake is governed by an elected municipal council and an appointed administrator.[5] The mayor is Maurice Rivard and its administrator is Pamela Hilkewich.[5]