Quill Lake (
2016 population: ) is a
village in the
Canadian province
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of
Saskatchewan within the
Rural Municipality of Lakeside No. 338 and
Census Division No. 10. It is 170 km east of
Saskatoon and 200 km northeast of
Regina on
Highway 5
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.
The village is located just to the northwest of the
Quill Lakes. The Quill Lakes
wetland complex is a designated
Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network
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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
Gothic revival style
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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
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conducted by Statistics Canada
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, 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.
Notable people
* Ray Meiklejohn, former Saskatchewan cabinet minister
* Lyle Odelein, former NHL hockey player
* Selmar Odelein, former NHL hockey player
References
Villages in Saskatchewan
Lakeside No. 338, Saskatchewan
Division No. 10, Saskatchewan
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