Burstall is a small
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 ori ...
in southwestern
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada, western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on t ...
, Canada.
During summer, the local
Lions Club
The International Association of Lions Clubs, more commonly known as Lions Clubs International, is an international non-political service organization established originally in 1916 in Chicago, Illinois
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
, ...
organizes an activity known as Summer Slam. The main economies in the area are natural gas, wheat and cattle farming. The area was originally settled by
Germans
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, mostly
Lutherans from South Russia. Starting around 1978, the town committee began a calendar that has everyone's birthday, anniversary and passing noted for each day.
Burstall has three churches:
* St. Paul Lutheran Church
* St. Michael’s Catholic Church
* Hope Evangelical Missionary Church
Burstall has many community facilities such as:
* Burstall Golf Course - a nine-hole course with manicured fairways, grass greens, white sand traps, water hazard, and clubhouse built in 2016.
* Community Hall - with a capacity of 300, which houses the offices of the RM of Deer Forks and the Town of Burstall
* Hockey Arena
* Curling Club
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...
conducted by
Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada (StatCan; french: Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and cultur ...
, Burstall had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
See also
*
List of communities in Saskatchewan
*
List of towns in Saskatchewan
*
Henry Edward Burstall
Lieutenant General Sir Henry Edward Burstall, (26 August 1870 – 8 February 1945) was a Canadian general.
Born at Domaine Cataraqui, Sillery, Quebec, the son of the wealthy merchant John B. Burstall (1832–1896) and Fanny Bell Forsyth, da ...
References
Towns in Saskatchewan
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