Maymont ( 2016 population: ) is a

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in the

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within the

Rural Municipality of Mayfield No. 406 The Rural Municipality of Mayfield No. 406 ( 2016 population: ) is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within Census Division No. 16 and Division No. 6. History The RM of Mayfield No. 406 incorporated as a ...

and Census Division No. 16. It is north-west of the city of

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. The village of Maymont was named for May Montgomery. She was a niece to William Mackenzie (of Mackenzie and Mann, railway construction contractors, who built the

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through the area in 1905). Montgomery had asked her uncle to name the village ''Montgomery'', but he said he could not because a town in

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already had that name. So, he took her first name and the first syllable of her last name and combined them to form the name ''Maymont''. Like many other communities in Saskatchewan along the railway line in the early 1900s, Maymont had a grain elevator. Today, Maymont is one of the few towns in Saskatchewan that still has a grain elevator.

History

Maymont incorporated as a village on June 24, 1907.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Maymont 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. In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Maymont recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.

References

Villages in Saskatchewan Mayfield No. 406, Saskatchewan Division No. 16, Saskatchewan {{coord, 52.563, N, 107.706, W, display=title, type:city_region:CA_source:GNS-enwiki

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