Stoughton is a town in
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 ...
, Canada. In 2011 it had a population of 649.
Stoughton was originally called ''New Hope''.
The tiny settlement of New Hope was barely three years old when the
Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) arrived in this part of the province in 1904. The CPR chose a location a little to the south for its closest depot, which it called Stoughton. The community of New Hope soon moved to join it.
Stoughton used to have its own small police service, which was aptly named the ''Stoughton Police Service''. It no longer exists and now the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
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(RCMP) provide policing services to the town and surrounding areas.
Stoughton is approximately eighty-eight miles southeast of
Regina at the terminus for highway 33, which is the longest straight road in Canada, and the fifth longest in the world. It is also the administrative headquarters of the Ocean Man
First Nations
First Nations or first peoples may refer to:
* Indigenous peoples, for ethnic groups who are the earliest known inhabitants of an area.
Indigenous groups
*First Nations is commonly used to describe some Indigenous groups including:
**First Natio ...
band government.
[http://www.sicc.sk.ca/archive/bands/bocean.html ] They contain three nations which are
Assiniboine
The Assiniboine or Assiniboin people ( when singular, Assiniboines / Assiniboins when plural; Ojibwe: ''Asiniibwaan'', "stone Sioux"; also in plural Assiniboine or Assiniboin), also known as the Hohe and known by the endonym Nakota (or Nakod ...
,
Saulteaux
The Saulteaux (pronounced , or in imitation of the French pronunciation , also written Salteaux, Saulteau and other variants), otherwise known as the Plains Ojibwe, are a First Nations band government in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, A ...
, and
Cree.
The town is served by
Highway 13
The following roads may be referred to as Route 13 or Highway 13. For a list of roads named A13, see List of A13 roads.
International
* Asian Highway 13
* European route E13
* European route E013
Afghanistan
*The Kabul–Behsud Highway - ...
,
Highway 33, and
Highway 47.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...
conducted by
Statistics Canada, Stoughton 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.
Gallery
File:Stoughton SK - road and grain elevator.jpg, Road and grain elevator
File:Stoughton SK - grain elevator.jpg, Grain elevator
File:Stoughton SK - petrol station.jpg, Rest stop
File:Stoughton, Sk clubhouse & tourist info centre.jpg, The tourist Info Centre and golf clubhouse
File:Stoughton, Sk golf course & grain elevator.jpg, Stoughton golf course and grain elevator
File:Stoughton, Sk grain elevators.jpg, Both of Stoughton's grain elevators along-side the railway
See also
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List of communities in Saskatchewan
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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:
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List of golf courses in Saskatchewan
The following is a list of golf courses in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan:
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See also
*List of golf courses ...
References
External links
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Towns in Saskatchewan
1904 establishments in Saskatchewan
Canadian Pacific Railway
Tecumseh No. 65, Saskatchewan
Division No. 1, Saskatchewan