Porcupine Plain is a town in
Saskatchewan
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, Canada. It is accessed by
Highway 23.
Greenwater Lake Provincial Park
Greenwater Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It is located on the eastern side of the province in the Porcupine Hills on Highway 38. The closest town, Porcupine Plain, is about 28 kilometres ...
is southwest on
Highway 38
The following highways are numbered 38:
Australia
* A38 (Sydney)
Canada
* Alberta Highway 38
* Ontario Highway 38 (former)
* Saskatchewan Highway 38
Czech Republic
* I/38 Highway; Czech: Silnice I/38
Germany
* Bundesautobahn 38
India
* Nat ...
. The town is located within the Porcupine Provincial Forest. The town was originally settled by returning World War I veterans who settled in the area during the early 1920s.
Sask Biz
/ref> '' Quilly Willy'' is the town mascot used on promotional material. Porcupine Plain is the hometown of Calgary Hitmen
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play-by-play man Brad Curle, St. Louis Blues alumnus Kelly Chase
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, Paralympic athlete Colette Bourgonje
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, and TSN SportsCentre sportscaster Darren Dutchyshen
Darren Dutchyshen (born December 19, 1966) is a Canadian sportscaster, who cohosts the evening edition of '' SportsCentre'' on TSN.
Broadcasting career
Dutchyshen started his broadcasting career as a sportscaster at what was then STV (now Glo ...
, and the company Sweet Pure Honey.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population
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conducted by Statistics Canada
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, Porcupine Plain 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
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 nort ...
* 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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References
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Porcupine No. 395, Saskatchewan
Towns in Saskatchewan