The Rural Municipality of Moose Mountain No. 63 ( 2016 population: ) is a

rural municipality A rural municipality is a classification of municipality, a type of local government, found in several countries. These include: * Rural municipality (Canada), Rural municipalities in Canada, a Lists of municipalities in Canada, type of municipa ...

(RM) in the

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within Census Division No. 1 and Division No. 1. It is located in the south-east portion of the province.

History

The RM of Moose Mountain No. 63 incorporated as a rural municipality on December 11, 1911. It derived its name from the large number of moose that inhabit the Moose Mountain Uplands in the north-west corner of the RM. The ''Church of All Saints'', built in 1885, and the ''Humphrys/Hewlett House'', built in 1888, are historical properties located in

Cannington Manor Provincial Park Cannington Manor Provincial Park is an historic park in the RM of Moose Mountain in the south-east corner of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. An aristocratic English colony was established at the site in 1882 by Captain Edward Michell Pi ...

. The park is in the north-east corner of the RM and is a IUCN protected area category III and on the

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Communities and localities

The following urban municipalities are surrounded by the RM. ;

Towns A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city. The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...

* Carlyle ;

Villages A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village ...

* Manor The following unincorporated communities are within the RM. ;

Organized hamlet In most cases in Saskatchewan, a hamlet is an unincorporated community with at least five occupied dwellings situated on separate lots and at least 10 separate lots, the majority of which are an average size of less than one acre. Saskatchewan ha ...

s * Cannington Lake ;Localities *

Carlyle Lake Resort Carlyle Lake Resort, also known as ''White Bear Lake Resort'', is a hamlet in White Bear Band Indian reserve, Saskatchewan, Canada. The community is situated on the southern shore of White Bear (Carlyle) Lake on a forested plateau called Moos ...

(White Bear) * Cowper, an unincorporated

Canadian National Railway The Canadian National Railway Company () is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. CN is Canada's largest railway, in terms of both revenue a ...

(CNR) point located at 49° 40'N, 102° 7'W; NE 19-8-1 W2, just east of Cowper Creek ::*Elevation: 653 metres ::*A post office opened there on 1 August 1911 and closed four years later on 31 December 1915 ::*Cowper was named after the British poet,

William Cowper William Cowper ( ; – 25 April 1800) was an English poet and Anglican hymnwriter. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th-century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the Engli ...

* Fremantle, an unincorporated

Canadian Pacific Railway The Canadian Pacific Railway () , also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), is a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881. The railway is owned by Canadian Pacific Kansas City, Canadian Pacific Ka ...

(CPR) platform located at 49° 8'N, 102° 23'W; SE 17-8-3 W2 ::*Elevation 627 metres ::*Consisted of a siding, railway platform, and 2 grain elevators that no longer exist * Glen Adelaide, unincorporated locality at 49° 47' 0"N, 102° 2' 2"W; NW 10-10-1 W2 ::*The Glen Adelaide Cemetery was established in 1897 * Service, an unincorporated CN Railway point located at 49° 40'N, 102° 2'W; SE 28-8-1 W2 ::*Elevation 652 metres ::*Named after

Robert W. Service Robert William Service (16 January 1874 – 11 September 1958) was an English-born Canadian poet and writer, often called “The Poet of the Yukon" and "The Canadian Kipling". Born in Lancashire of Scottish descent, he was a bank clerk by trade ...

* Steppes, an unincorporated CP Railway point located at 49° 37'N, 102° 11'W; NE 3-8-2 W2 ::*Elevation 628 metres ::*Consisted of a siding, railway platform, and a grain elevator that no longer exist *

Wordsworth William Wordsworth (7 April 177023 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication '' Lyrical Ballads'' (1798). Wordsworth's ...

Cowper, Service, and Wordsworth are all named after famous British and Canadian poets. They are all found along the CN Railway and are part of "Poet's Corner", along with several other communities along that railway line in south-east Saskatchewan.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, the RM of Moose Mountain No. 63 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 RM of Moose Mountain No. 63 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.

Government

The RM of Moose Mountain No. 63 is governed by an elected municipal council and an appointed administrator that meets on the second Wednesday of every month. The reeve of the RM is Kelly Brimner while its Administrator is Christie Hislop. The RM's office is located in Carlyle.

Parks and recreation

There are two

provincial parks file:Ischigualasto provincial park.jpg, Ischigualasto Provincial Park A provincial park (or territorial park) is a park administered by one of the provinces of a country, as opposed to a national park. They are similar to state parks in other coun ...

within the RM of Moose Mountain. Near the north-east corner is

and along the north part of the RM in the

Moose Mountain Upland Moose Mountain Upland, Moose Mountain Uplands, or commonly Moose Mountain, is a hilly plateau located in the south-east corner of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Saskatchewan, that covers an area of about . The u ...

Moose Mountain Provincial Park Moose Mountain Provincial Park is a List of protected areas of Saskatchewan#Provincial parks, provincial park, in south-eastern Saskatchewan about north of the town of Carlyle, Saskatchewan, Carlyle on the Moose Mountain Upland. It is one of ...

. Near the north-west corner of the RM on the eastern shore of Kippan Lake, along the border of Moose Mountain Provincial Park, is Saskairie (49°42'24.0"N 102°23'06.1"W). Saskairie is a

Nature Conservancy of Canada The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is a private, non-profit, charitable nature conservation and restoration organisation based in Canada. Since its founding in 1962, the organisation and its partners have protected of land and water acro ...

property that was established in 1974 by Prairie Lore and Living Society on three-quarters of a section of woodland wilderness. Prairie Lore and Living Society was formed in 1972 as a non-profit organisation. The three founding members were Jack MacKenzie, Don Stewart, and Nora Stewart. The park was originally created to provide a year-round outdoor and environmental educational facility for students. In 1977, a cabin was built that could accommodate 32 people.

References

External links

* {{Authority control M * Division No. 1, Saskatchewan