Quill Lake ( 2016 population: ) is a

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in the

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within the Rural Municipality of Lakeside No. 338 and Census Division No. 10. It is 170 km east of

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and 200 km northeast of Regina. The village is located just to the northwest of the

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. The Quill Lakes

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complex is a designated

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site where many migrating shorebirds stop during long migrations. Because of this the village is also known by its residents as the "Goose Capital of Saskatchewan".

History

Quill Lake was originally established as Lally, named after a railway official of the day. Later it was renamed Quill Lake to conform to the name of the post office. The community was built around the site which was originally the location of a log school house. Quill Lake incorporated as a village on December 8, 1906. ;Heritage sites Quill Lake has one municipal heritage building, the ''St. Michael's Anglican Church'', constructed between 1907 and 1913. The wood building was built in the

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and has a fieldstone foundation. It was previously known as the ''Quill Lake United Church'' and the ''Quill Lake Methodist Church''. The building was designated a heritage building in 2000.St. Michael's Anglican Church

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Quill Lake 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 Quill Lake 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

* Ray Meiklejohn, former Saskatchewan cabinet minister * Lyle Odelein, former

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hockey player * Selmar Odelein, former

hockey player

References

Villages in Saskatchewan Lakeside No. 338, Saskatchewan Division No. 10, Saskatchewan {{coord, 52, 04, N, 104, 15, W, region:CA_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki, display=title