Katepwa Beach (
2006 population: ) is a former
resort village
A resort village is a type of incorporated urban municipality in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. A resort village is created from an organized hamlet by the Minister of Municipal Affairs by ministerial order via section 51 of ''The Munic ...
in the
Canadian province of
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a province in western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dak ...
within
Census Division No. 6. It is now part of the
District of Katepwa. Katepwa Beach is on the eastern shore of
Katepwa Lake in the
RM of Abernethy No. 186, approximately south-east of the town of
Fort Qu'Appelle
Fort Qu'Appelle is a town in Canadian province of Saskatchewan located in the Qu'Appelle River valley north-east of Regina, between Echo and Mission Lakes of the Fishing Lakes. It is not to be confused with the once-significant nearby t ...
on
Highway 56.
Located on the south side of Katepwa Beach is
Katepwa Point Provincial Park and on the east side are two gold courses. Katepwa Beach Golf Course is an 18-hole course and Katepwa Family Nine Golf Course is a 9-hole course.
History
Katepwa Beach incorporated as a resort village on August 1, 1957 under the official name of the ''Summer Resort Village of Katepwa Beach''.
The resort village changed its official name to the ''Resort Village of Katepwa Beach'' on May 13, 1992.
[ It, and the resort villages of Katepwa South and Sandy Beach, amalgamated on July 24, 2004 to form the Resort Village of the District of Katepwa.]
Demographics
In the 2006 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the former Resort Village of Katepwa Beach recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2001 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2006.
Government
The former Resort Village of Katepwa Beach has been governed by the District of Katepwa since the 2004 amalgamation.[ Katepwa Beach is in Ward 2, which is represented by councillors Stephen Alport, Scott Baber and Garry Huntington, .]
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 municipalities in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is the sixth-most populous province in Canada with 1,132,505 residents as of 2021 and is the fifth-largest in land area at . In 2021, Saskatchewan's 774 municipalities covered of the province's land mass and were home to of ...
* List of resort villages in Saskatchewan
References
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Former resort villages in Saskatchewan
Unincorporated communities in Saskatchewan
Populated places disestablished in 2004
Abernethy No. 186, Saskatchewan
Division No. 6, Saskatchewan