Balgonie Arena
Balgonie is a town in southeast Saskatchewan. Situated at the intersection of Saskatchewan Highway 10, Highways 10, Saskatchewan Highway 46, 46, and the Trans-Canada Highway, the town is part of the White Butte, Saskatchewan, White Butte region and neighbours Pilot Butte, Saskatchewan, Pilot Butte, White City, Saskatchewan, White City, and McLean, Saskatchewan, McLean. As well, it is located 25 kilometres east of the province's capital city, Regina, Saskatchewan, Regina. As of the Canada 2016 Census, 2016 census, Balgonie had a population of 1,765, an 8.3% growth from 2011. The town is governed by the Balgonie Town Council and is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Edenwold No. 158. Balgonie is located in Treaty 4 territory. Balgonie has a Subway (restaurant), Subway restaurant, two gas stations, an outdoor pool, and an ice arena. It is also home to Greenall School. History Balgonie was named for Balgonie Castle in Scotland. In 1882, the first train ran through the area on ...
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Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, mor ...
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