Bracken, Saskatchewan

Bracken
Bracken
Village
	Village of Bracken
	Looking down railway tracks towards the grain elevator in Bracken.
	Bracken Show map of Lone Tree No. 18Show map of SaskatchewanShow all
	Coordinates: 49°10′46″N 108°05′38″W / 49.1795°N 108.094°W
Country	Canada
Province	Saskatchewan
Region	Southwest
Rural municipality	Lone Tree No. 18
Government
• Type	Municipal
• Governing body	Bracken Village Council
• Mayor	Steve Dueck
• Administrator	Monique Fehr
• MLA	Dave Marit
• MP	Jeremy Patzer
Area
• Total	0.60 km2 (0.23 sq mi)
Population (2016)
• Total	25
• Density	33.5/km2 (87/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-6 (CST)
Postal code	S0N 0G0
Area code(s)	306
Highways	Hwy 18
Railway	Great Western Railway

Bracken (2016 population: 20) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Lone Tree No. 18 and Census Division No. 4. The village is named after John Bracken, Premier of Manitoba and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, who was a professor at the University of Saskatchewan. The small village is located approximately 160 km south of the City of Swift Current on Highway 18, directly north of Grasslands National Park, and approximately 20 km north of the Montana-Saskatchewan border.

History[]

Bracken incorporated as a village on January 4, 1926.^[1]

Demographics[]

Population history
(1981–2016)
Year	Pop.	±%
1981	66	—
1986	54	−18.2%
1991	48	−11.1%
1996	56	+16.7%
2001	35	−37.5%
2006	25	−28.6%
2011	30	+20.0%
2016	20	−33.3%
Source: Statistics Canada via Saskatchewan Bureau of Statistics^[2]^[3]

In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Village of Bracken recorded a population of 20 living in 9 of its 13 total private dwellings, a -50% change from its 2011 population of 30. With a land area of 0.6 km² (0.23 sq mi), it had a population density of 33.3/km² (86.3/sq mi) in 2016.^[4]

In the 2011 Census of Population, the Village of Bracken recorded a population of 30, a 20% change from its 2006 population of 25. With a land area of 0.6 km² (0.23 sq mi), it had a population density of 50.0/km² (129.5/sq mi) in 2011.^[5]

Attractions[]

Grasslands National Park, one of Canada's newer national parks and is located in southern Saskatchewan along the Montana border.
Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, an interprovincial park straddling the southern Alberta-Saskatchewan border, located southeast of Medicine Hat. It is Canada's only interprovincial park.

Education[]

Students in Bracken are bused to Frontier, which has a school that covers kindergarten through grade 12 in the Chinook School Division.

References[]

^ "Urban Municipality Incorporations". Saskatchewan Ministry of Government Relations. Archived from the original on October 15, 2014. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
^ "Saskatchewan Census Population" (PDF). Saskatchewan Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 24, 2015. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
^ "Saskatchewan Census Population". Saskatchewan Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
^ "Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data (Saskatchewan)". Statistics Canada. February 8, 2017. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
^ "Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2011 and 2006 censuses (Saskatchewan)". Statistics Canada. June 3, 2019. Retrieved May 30, 2020.

Coordinates: 49°10′46″N 108°05′38″W / 49.1795°N 108.094°W / 49.1795; -108.094

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[Incorporation-1] "Urban Municipality Incorporations". Saskatchewan Ministry of Government Relations. Archived from the original on October 15, 2014. Retrieved June 1, 2020.

[Censuses81-06-2] "Saskatchewan Census Population" (PDF). Saskatchewan Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 24, 2015. Retrieved May 31, 2020.

[Censuses86-16-3] "Saskatchewan Census Population". Saskatchewan Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved May 31, 2020.

[2016censusSKmunis-4] "Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data (Saskatchewan)". Statistics Canada. February 8, 2017. Retrieved May 30, 2020.

[2011censusSKmunis-5] "Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2011 and 2006 censuses (Saskatchewan)". Statistics Canada. June 3, 2019. Retrieved May 30, 2020.

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