The Rural Municipality of Mount Hope No. 279 ( 2016 population: ) is a rural municipality (RM) in the

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of Saskatchewan within Census Division No. 10 and Division No. 5.

History

The RM of Mount Hope No. 279 incorporated as a rural municipality on December 11, 1911.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, the RM of Mount Hope No. 279 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 RM of Mount Hope No. 279 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.

Geography

Communities and localities

The following

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are surrounded by the RM. ; Towns * Raymore ; Villages * Punnichy *

Quinton Quinton is a place name, a surname or a masculine given name. The place name originates from Old English ''cwen'' "queen" or ''cwene'' "woman" and ''tun'' "farmstead, estate". The English surname and given name may originate from the English plac ...

* Semans The following unincorporated communities are within the RM. ;Localities * Booth * Last Mountain * Tate (dissolved as a village, May 15, 1961)

Mount Hope Wildlife Management Unit

Mount Hope Wildlife Management Unit is a conservation area that totals of habitat that is provincially protected under the Wildlife Habitat Protection Act. The lake at the heart of the conservation area – Kurawagan Lake – is a saline lake split into three basins and regulated by dykes. It is the centre of the Kutawagan (SK 064)

Important Bird Area An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations. IBA was developed and sites are identified by BirdLife Int ...

of Canada and an important habitat for birds such as various ducks and geese. Specific birds include the northern pintail, tundra swan, greater white-fronted goose, sandhill crane, least sandpiper,

piping plover The piping plover (''Charadrius melodus'') is a small sand-colored, sparrow-sized shorebird that nests and feeds along coastal sand and gravel beaches in North America. The adult has yellow-orange-red legs, a black band across the forehead from e ...

, and the

eared Grebe The black-necked grebe or eared grebe (''Podiceps nigricollis'') is a member of the grebe family of water birds. It was described in 1831 by Christian Ludwig Brehm. There are currently three accepted subspecies, including the nominate subspeci ...

Attractions

Raymore Pioneer Museum Raymore may refer to: Places ;Canada *Raymore, Saskatchewan, a town * Raymore Drive in Toronto, partly washed out by flooding during Hurricane Hazel (1954) ;United States *Raymore, Missouri Raymore is a city in Cass County, Missouri, United Sta ...

* Semans & District Museum * Raymore Recreation Site – a rustic campground about north of Raymore along Highway 6 *

Semans Recreation Centre Seman, Semans or SEMAN may refer to: * Seman River in Albania * Seman, Alabama, a populated place in the United States * Seman, Iran, a village * Semans, Saskatchewan, a village in Canada People with the name

* Bill Seman (born c. 1944), Can ...

(originally Madison Recreation Academy)

Government

The RM of Mount Hope No. 279 is governed by an elected municipal council and an appointed administrator that meets on the second Tuesday of every month. The

reeve Reeve may refer to: Titles *Reeve (Canada), an elected chief executive of some counties, townships, and equivalents *Reeve (England), an official elected annually by the serfs to supervise lands for a lord *High-reeve, a title taken by some Englis ...

of the RM is Brian Jordan and its administrator is Jamie Schachtel. The RM's office is located in Semans.

Transportation

* Saskatchewan Highway 6 * Saskatchewan Highway 15 *

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Saskatchewan Highway 641 Saskatchewan Highway 641 is a highway in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, beginning at Highway 39 near Rouleau, and traveling north ending at Highway 15 at Semans. The highway intersects the Trans Canada Highway, Saskatchewan Highway 1 s ...

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Canadian National Railway The Canadian National Railway Company (french: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. CN i ...

References

{{Authority control * M Division No. 10, Saskatchewan Important Bird Areas of Saskatchewan