Quill Lake ( 2016 population: ) is a

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in the Canadian province of

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within the

Rural Municipality of Lakeside No. 338 The Rural Municipality of Lakeside No. 338 ( 2016 population: ) is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within Census Division No. 10 and Division No. 4. It is located in the east-central portion of the provinc ...

and Census Division No. 10. It is 170 km east of

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and 200 km northeast of Regina on

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. The village is located just to the northwest of the

Quill Lakes The Quill Lakes is a wetland complex in Saskatchewan, Canada that encompasses the endorheic basin of three distinct lake wetlands: Big Quill Lake, Middle Quill Lake, and Little Quill Lake. On May 27, 1987, it was designated a wetland of inte ...

. The Quill Lakes

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complex is a designated Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network site where many migrating shorebirds stop during long migrations. Because of this the village is also known by its residents as the "Goose Capital of Saskatchewan".

History

Quill Lake was originally established as Lally, named after a railway official of the day. Later it was renamed Quill Lake to conform to the name of the post office. The community was built around the site which was originally the location of a log school house. Quill Lake incorporated as a village on December 8, 1906. ;Heritage sites Quill Lake has one municipal heritage building, the ''St. Michael's Anglican Church'', constructed between 1907 and 1913. The wood building was built in the

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and has a fieldstone foundation. It was previously known as the ''Quill Lake United Church'' and the ''Quill Lake Methodist Church''. The building was designated a heritage building in 2000.St. Michael's Anglican Church

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, Quill Lake 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 Quill Lake 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.

Notable people

* Ray Meiklejohn, former Saskatchewan cabinet minister *

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, former

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hockey player * Selmar Odelein, former

hockey player

References

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