Burstall is a small town in southwestern
Saskatchewan
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, Canada.
During past summers, the local
Lions Club
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organized an activity known as Summer Slam. The main economies in the area are natural gas, wheat, and cattle farming. The area was originally settled by
Germans
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, mostly
Lutherans from South Russia. Starting around 1978, the town committee began a calendar that has everyone's birthday, anniversary and passing noted for each day.
Burstall has three churches:
* St. Paul Lutheran Church
* St. Michael’s Catholic Church
* Hope Evangelical Missionary Church
Burstall has many community facilities such as:
* Burstall Golf Course — a nine-hole course with manicured fairways, grass greens, white sand traps, water hazard, and clubhouse built in 2016.
* Community Hall - with a capacity of 300, which houses the offices of the RM of Deer Forks and the Town of Burstall
* Hockey arena
* Curling club
* Bowling alley
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
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conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Burstall 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
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List of communities in Saskatchewan
Communities in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, include Incorporation (municipal government), incorporated municipalities, Unincorporated area#Canada, unincorporated communities and First Nations in Canada, First Nations communities.
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List of towns in Saskatchewan
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List of francophone communities in Saskatchewan
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The provincial average of Saskatchewanians whose mother tongue is French ...
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Henry Edward Burstall
Lieutenant General Sir Henry Edward Burstall, (26 August 1870 – 8 February 1945) was a Canadian general.
Early life
Born at Domaine Cataraqui, Sillery, Quebec, the son of the wealthy merchant John B. Burstall (1832–1896) and Fanny Bell Fors ...
References
Towns in Saskatchewan
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