Pelly (
2016 population: ) is a village in the
Canadian province
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of
Saskatchewan
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within the
Rural Municipality of St. Philips No. 301 and
Census Division No. 9.
The village is the closest inhabited settlement to the historical sites of
Fort Livingstone, a
former capital of the
North-West Territories
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and a former
North-West Mounted Police
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headquarters, and
Fort Pelly
Fort Pelly was a Hudson's Bay Company fur trading post located in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The fort was named after Sir John Pelly, governor of the Hudson's Bay Company. The current village of Pelly, Saskatchewan, takes its name fro ...
, the Swan River district headquarters for the
Hudson's Bay Company
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, from which the village gets its name.
History
Pelly incorporated as a village on May 4, 1911.
Climate
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
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conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Pelly 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 Pelly 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.
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.
Types ...
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Villages of Saskatchewan
A village is a type of incorporated urban municipality in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. A village is created from an organized hamlet by the Minister of Municipal Affairs by ministerial order via section 51 of ''The Municipalities Act'' i ...
References
External links
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Villages in Saskatchewan
St. Philips No. 301, Saskatchewan
Division No. 9, Saskatchewan