Kyle is a

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 Lacadena Rural Municipality No. 228, in the

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, Canada. The town had a population of 423 in the

2006 Census 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...

. The village was named for its original settler, Jeremiah Kyle, in 1923. Kyle is north of

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, and is situated along the remains of the historic

Swift Current-Battleford Trail The 190 mile long (300 km) Swift Current-Battleford Trail was an important late-19th century transportation and communications link between settlements of Swift Current and Battleford - the result of a brisk trade, in buffalo bones which ...

, south-west of

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, west of Regina and north of

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on Highway 4. The

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for Kyle is S0L 1T0.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Kyle 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.

Attractions

The town is well-known locally both for being the site of a 12,000-year-old

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discovery during road construction in 1964 (the bones of which are now on display at the

Royal Saskatchewan Museum The Royal Saskatchewan Museum (RSM) is a Canadian natural history museum in Regina, Saskatchewan. Founded in 1906, it is the first museum in Saskatchewan, and the first provincial museum in the three Prairie Provinces. The institution was formed ...

in Regina), and being the nearest community to La Reata Ranch, a working

cattle Cattle (''Bos taurus'') are large, domesticated, cloven-hooved, herbivores. They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus ''Bos''. Adult females are referred to as cows and adult mal ...

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that doubles as a

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and allows guests to experience a real

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first-hand. Near the town of Kyle is the Clearwater Lake Regional Park. On the road to it stands one of the last few

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s in

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, which remains a very popular evening attraction for both young and old in the summer months. That drive-in is one of the few remaining in Saskatchewan. The others include the Jubilee Drive-in Theatre in

Manitou Beach Manitou Beach ( 2016 population: ) is a resort village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within Census Division No. 11. It is on the shores of Little Manitou Lake in the Rural Municipality of Morris No. 312. It is north of Watrous and ...

, the Prairie Dog Drive-in Theatre in Carlyle, the Moonlight Movies Drive-in in Pilot Butte, and the Twilite Drive-in Theater in Wolseley.

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* * {{Coord, 50.831690, -108.037370, region:CA-SK_type:city(500), display=title Lacadena No. 228, Saskatchewan Towns in Saskatchewan

Demographics

Attractions

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