Livelong is a

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in the Rural Municipality of Mervin No. 499 in the

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province of

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. An annual celebration "Live it up day" is held in early August. It is a one-day fun-filled fair. Breakfast, supper and dance, street entertainment, parade, food vendor booths and beer gardens. Horseshoes, baseball games, bingo, bowling, games of chance, and children's games. Third annual $1000 hole-in-one play-off. A war memorial cenotaph was erected in front of the Livelong Legion #192. Constructed in 1988 in memory of all veterans of Livelong and district. The cenotaph was constructed by Bill Rhode, Sam Rhode, and Murray Kopp. Art Dorval made the cross and it was erected by Chief Denny.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Livelong had a population of 100 living in 39 of its 47 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 74. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

Churches

*St. John's Anglican Church

Organizations

*Turtle Lake Watershed Inc. Their mission: The maintenance of a healthy aquatic ecosystem within the Turtle Lake watershed basin. ( Turtle Lake is approx. 6 miles north of Livelong.)

Clubs

*Livelong Pinetoppers *Livelong Curling Club

Pop culture

*Girl at the Window: Author Byrna Barclay takes her readers from Livelong, Saskatchewan to Spain and the Island of Crete in this collection of short stories published in 2004. *The Garden of Eloice Loon, written by

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a Livelong resident.

Notable residents

*Charles J. Neale, awarded World War 1, Distinguished Conduct Medal. Resided in Livelong from 1950 - 1979. *Jeremy Power Regimbal, Director, spent his childhood in Livelong. *Lisa Guenther, Author, *Gordon Denny, Manager - Saskatchewan Fisheries Cooperative in Air Ronge, Saskatchewan, for whom Gordon Denny CommunityGordon Denny Community School
/ref> school is named after was a Livelong resident until the 1960s. *Blanchette, Marc - Tattoo artist at Turtleford, Saskatchewan

References

External links

Cenotaph at Livelong Legion
{{authority control Designated places in Saskatchewan Mervin No. 499, Saskatchewan Organized hamlets in Saskatchewan