Edgeley is a

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in the

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and formerly (until the rationalisation of operations by the major Canadian grain-buying companies) the location of some half-dozen grain elevators. At the outset of settlement of this part of the Canadian prairies, Edgeley was a centre of the Methodist Church of Canada's Qu'Appelle-Edgeley Circuit which later, in 1925, was absorbed into the

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Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan Qu'Appelle () is a town in Saskatchewan, located on Highway 35 approximately east of the provincial capital of Regina. Qu'Appelle was for a time the terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the major distribution centre for what was then ...

. Once reached by road west of Highway 35 in the once densely populated Qu'Appelle-Fort Qu'Appelle hinterland as well as by rail, its significance has lapsed since the opening of Highway 10 from Balgonie to Fort Qu'Appelle and beyond to PTH 5 at the

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border in the early 1960s, as it has been immediately adjacent to a major throughway.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Edgeley had a population of 41 living in 21 of its 21 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 45. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

References

Designated places in Saskatchewan Organized hamlets in Saskatchewan South Qu'Appelle No. 157, Saskatchewan Division No. 6, Saskatchewan {{SKDivision6-geo-stub