Kipling is a town in southeast
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a province in 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 the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dak ...
, Canada. In provincial politics, Kipling is in the constituency of
Moosomin. The town was named after the English author
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)''The Times'', (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12. was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.
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History
Kipling sites which can be classed as '
heritage properties' include the former
CN station, built in 1908–09, and the Kingsley rural municipality office, built in 1919. In addition, a major and highly interesting group of pioneer-era buildings can be viewed on the spacious sites belonging to the Kipling and District Historical Society Museum. The Kipling and District Museum (1903–59) is a Municipal Heritage Property on the Canadian Register of Historic Places.
In 2007, Canadian blogger Kyle MacDonald successfully parlayed
one red paperclip via a series of trades into a house in Kipling. The town commemorates the story with the
Guinness World Record certified World's Largest Paper Clip, 15 feet tall and weighing 3043 pounds.
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, Kipling 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.
Government
There is a town council.
Kipling is within the provincial constituency of
Moosomin, and is represented in the
Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
The Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan is the legislative chamber of the Saskatchewan Legislature in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. Bills passed by the assembly are given royal assent by the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan, in the na ...
by
Steven Bonk of the
Saskatchewan Party.
Federally, Kipling is in the riding of
Souris-Moose Mountain, and is represented in the 42nd Parliament by
Robert Kitchen
Robert Gordon Kitchen (born 1957) is a Canadian politician of the Conservative Party elected as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada to represent the federal electoral district of Souris—Moose Mountain at the 2015 Canadian f ...
, of the
Conservative Party of Canada.
Climate
Sports
The Kipling/
Windthorst Oil Kings of the senior men's
Big 6 Hockey League play in the local arena.
The Kipling Royals of the Saskota Baseball League
play at the ball diamonds in Kipling.
See also
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List of towns in Saskatchewan
A town is a type of incorporated urban municipality in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. A resort village or a village can be incorporated as a town by the Minister of Municipal Affairs via section 52 of ''The Municipalities Act'' if:
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List of communities in Saskatchewan
Communities in the Province of Saskatchewan, Canada include incorporated municipalities, unincorporated communities and First Nations communities.
Types of incorporated municipalities include urban municipalities, rural municipalities and nor ...
References
Other sources
* ''The Unforgiving Minute – A Life of Rudyard Kipling''
Harry Ricketts, Pimlico, 2000
* ''What was he doing out?- The Province, Page A8, Vancouver BC'' Brett Popplewell, Canadian Press, August 3, 2006
External links
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Towns in Saskatchewan
Kingsley No. 124, Saskatchewan
Division No. 5, Saskatchewan
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