Frobisher, Saskatchewan

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Frobisher
Village
Village of Frobisher
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Downtown Frobisher
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Frobisher
Location of Frobisher in Saskatchewan
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Frobisher
Frobisher (Canada)
Coordinates: 49°12′00″N102°27′00″W / 49.200°N 102.450°W / 49.200; -102.450
Country Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Province Flag of Saskatchewan.svg  Saskatchewan
Region Southeast
Census division 1
Rural Municipality Coalfields No. 4
Post office Founded1902-02-01
Government
 • Type Municipal
 • Governing body Frobisher Village Council
 •  Mayor Kyla MacCuish
 •  Administrator Holley Odgers
 •  MLA Dan D'Autremont
 •  MP Robert Kitchen
Area
 • Total1.35 km2 (0.52 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)
 • Total160
 • Density118.5/km2 (307/sq mi)
Time zone UTC-6 (CST)
Postal code
S0C 0Y0
Area code 306
Highways Saskatchewan Highway 18 (jct).svg Hwy 18
Saskatchewan Rural Municipal Route.svg
Saskatchewan Route 604.svg Hwy 604
[1] [2] [3] [4]

Frobisher (2016 population: 160) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Coalfields No. 4 and Census Division No. 1. It has an elevation of 576 metres (1891 feet) above sea level.

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Frobisher is located along Highway 18, in the heart of south-east Saskatchewan's oil patch. Many pumpjacks and oil batteries are found in the area. Within the village, there are oil field related businesses, a post office, [5] a restaurant/convenience store, and Frobisher United Church. [6]

History

Frobisher was originally known as Frobyshire [7] but due to an error in the original village plans, it had to be renamed. In 1903, there were four grain elevators, each with a capacity of 25,000 bushels, one of which still stands. Frobisher was built at the cross-roads of two rail lines, the Canadian Pacific Railway Souris Line and the Grand Trunk Regina-Boundary Branch Line. [8] The Grand Trunk line was a Canadian National Railway line, which is now gone as CN had issued a notice of discontinuance for the section which went from Northgate to Lampman on 16 October 2007. [9] Frobisher was incorporated as a village on July 4, 1904. [10]

Parks and recreation

The closest park to Frobisher is Moose Creek Regional Park, [11] 27 kilometres east. The park is located along the east side of Grant Devine Reservoir. While Frobisher no longer has an ice rink, the Frobisher Flyers were among the four founding teams of the Big 6 Hockey League. [12] The Flyers never won a championship.

Demographics

Population history
(1981–2016)
YearPop.±%
1981166—    
1986187+12.7%
1991158−15.5%
1996 165+4.4%
2001 149−9.7%
2006 145−2.7%
2011 166+14.5%
2016 160−3.6%
Source: Statistics Canada via Saskatchewan Bureau of Statistics [13] [14]

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Frobisher had a population of 127 living in 54 of its 71 total private dwellings, a change of

In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Frobisher recorded a population of 160 living in 65 of its 88 total private dwellings, a

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References

  1. ↑ National Archives, Archivia Net. "Post Offices and Postmasters". Archived from the original on 2006-10-06. Retrieved 2014-08-21.
  2. ↑ Government of Saskatchewan, MRD Home. "Municipal Directory System". Archived from the original on 2016-01-15. Retrieved 2014-08-21.
  3. ↑ Canadian Textiles Institute. (2005), CTI Determine your provincial constituency, archived from the original on 2007-09-11
  4. ↑ Commissioner of Canada Elections, Chief Electoral Officer of Canada (2005), Elections Canada On-line, archived from the original on 2007-04-21
  5. ↑ "Canada Post - Find a Post Office - Results Detail".
  6. ↑ "▷ FROBISHER UNITED CHURCH ✔ All the information about FROBISHER UNITED CHURCH ✔ FROBISHER".
  7. ↑ "Frobisher |".
  8. ↑ "Frobisher -".
  9. ↑ "Notices of rail line discontinuance". 14 February 2013.
  10. ↑ "Urban Municipality Incorporations". Saskatchewan Ministry of Government Relations. Archived from the original on October 15, 2014. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
  11. ↑ "Moose Creek".
  12. ↑ "Big Six Hockey League". Big Six Hockey League. Big Six Hockey League. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
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  14. ↑ "Saskatchewan Census Population". Saskatchewan Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
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