Craven (
2016 population: ) is a
village in the
Canadian province
Within the geographical areas of Canada, the ten provinces and three territories are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution. In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North ...
of
Saskatchewan within the
Rural Municipality of Longlaketon No. 219 and
Census Division No. 6. The village lies north-east of the town of
Lumsden in the
Qu'Appelle Valley. It sits at the confluence of the Qu'Appelle River and
Last Mountain Creek
Last Mountain Creek is a river in south-central Saskatchewan. It is a tributary of the Qu'Appelle River in a region called the Prairie Pothole Region of North America, which extends throughout three Canadian provinces and five U.S. states. It ...
. The
Craven Dam
Craven Dam is at the confluence of the Qu'Appelle River and Last Mountain Creek and immediately east of the village of Craven on the Qu'Appelle River at SW 24-20-21 W2. It is in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan in the RM of Longlaket ...
is on the east side of the village.
Craven is host to an annual country music festival called
Country Thunder Saskatchewan Country Thunder Saskatchewan (formerly the Craven Country Jamboree) is an annual country music festival, held in the Qu'Appelle Valley, near Craven, Saskatchewan, Canada.
History
The event was first held in 1983 as the Big Valley Jamboree, with ...
. Originally called the Big Valley Jamboree, it was first established by Father
Lucien Larré Lucien Larre (born 1933 in St. Walburg, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian Roman Catholic priest with a doctorate in clinical psychology. He is the founder of Bosco Homes, a Saskatchewan-based organization operating homes for troubled youth, and created t ...
as a fundraiser for his Bosco Homes for emotionally disturbed youth.
A successor event, the Kinsmen Rock'N the Valley rock music festival, ran until 2004. The country music format was revived in 2005.
History
Craven was founded in 1882 by Colonel Stone and was originally called Sussex. The original settlement was located a half a mile east from the present site.
Craven incorporated as a village on April 11, 1905.
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
Statistics Canada (StatCan; french: Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and cultur ...
, Craven 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.
In the
2016 Census of Population, the Village of Craven recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.
Notable people
*
Tanner Glass, a retired
NHL ice hockey player
See also
*
List of communities in Saskatchewan
*
List of villages in Saskatchewan
References
External links
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{{SKDivision6
Villages in Saskatchewan
Longlaketon No. 219, Saskatchewan
Division No. 6, Saskatchewan