Vawn is a former
village
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, now a
hamlet
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, in the
Canadian
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province
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of
Saskatchewan
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. It was dissolved as a village in 2004; its population is now counted as part of the rural municipality of
Turtle River. Vawn is located on
Highway 26 52 km north west of the City of
North Battleford
North Battleford is a city in west-central Saskatchewan, Canada. It is the seventh largest city in the province and is directly across the North Saskatchewan River from the Town of Battleford. Together, the two communities are known as "The Batt ...
.
History
Prior to February 15, 2004, Vawn was incorporated as a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
, and was restructured as a
hamlet
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under the jurisdiction of the
Rural municipality
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These include:
* Rural municipality (Canada), Rural municipalities in Canada, a Lists of municipalities in Canada, type of municipa ...
of Turtle River on that date.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Vawn had a population of 20 living in 12 of its 16 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 49. 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 ...
*
Hamlets of Saskatchewan
In most cases in Saskatchewan, a hamlet is an unincorporated community with at least five occupied dwellings situated on separate lots and at least 10 separate lots, the majority of which are an average size of less than one acre. Saskatchewan has ...
References
Designated places in Saskatchewan
Former villages in Saskatchewan
Turtle River No. 469, Saskatchewan
Populated places disestablished in 2004
Division No. 17, Saskatchewan
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