Balgonie is a town in southeast
Saskatchewan
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. Situated at the intersection of
Highways 10,
46, and the
Trans-Canada Highway
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, the town is part of the
White Butte
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region and neighbours
Pilot Butte,
White City White City may refer to:
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, and
McLean. As well, it is located 25 kilometres east of the province's capital city,
Regina. As of the
2016 census, Balgonie had a population of 1,765, an 8.3% growth from 2011. The town is governed by the Balgonie Town Council and is surrounded by the
Rural Municipality of Edenwold No. 158.
Balgonie is located in
Treaty 4
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territory.
Balgonie has a
Subway restaurant, two
gas station
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Gasolin ...
s, an
outdoor pool
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, and an ice arena. It is also home to
Greenall School.
History
Balgonie was named for
Balgonie Castle
Balgonie Castle is located on the south bank of the River Leven near Milton of Balgonie, east of Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland. The castle keep dates from the 14th century, and the remaining structures were added piecemeal until the 18th century ...
in Scotland. In 1882, the first train ran through the area on the
Canadian Pacific Railway
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, and a post office was established in 1883.
In 1884, Sir John Lister Kaye established a model farm near the railway in Balgonie, with the town being the easternmost point of the old 76 Ranch lands.
A school was built in 1891, and Balgonie was incorporated as a village in 1903 and as a town in 1907.
One of Balgonie's most famous residents was William Wallace Gibson (1876–1965), who created the first Canadian-built airplane. Gibson successfully flew his airplane in Victoria in 1910.
Gibson was the subject of the 1991 stop-motion animated short ''The Balgonie Birdman'', directed by Brian Duchscherer and produced by the
National Film Board of Canada
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.
The town's population plummeted during the 1930s and 1940s, but the completion of the
Trans-Canada Highway
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in the late 1950s brought new growth.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
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conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Balgonie 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 nor ...
*
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:
*Req ...
References
External links
*
Edenwold No. 158, Saskatchewan
Towns in Saskatchewan
Division No. 6, Saskatchewan
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