Stoughton () is a town in
Saskatchewan
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, Canada. In 2011 it had a population of 649.
Stoughton was originally called ''New Hope''. The settlement of New Hope was barely three years old when the
Canadian Pacific Railway
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(CPR) arrived in this part of the province in 1904. The CPR chose a location a little to the south for its closest depot, which it called Stoughton. The community of New Hope soon moved to join it.
Stoughton used to have its own small police service, which was aptly named the ''Stoughton Police Service''. It no longer exists and now the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
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(RCMP) provide policing services to the town and surrounding areas.
Stoughton is approximately southeast of
Regina at the terminus for Highway 33, which is the longest straight road in Canada, and the fifth longest in the world. It is also the administrative headquarters of the Ocean Man
First Nations
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band government
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.
The town is served by
Highway 13
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International
* AH13, Asian Highway 13
* European route E13
* European route E013
Afghanistan
*The Kabul–Behsud Highwa ...
,
Highway 33, and
Highway 47.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
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conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Stoughton 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.
Gallery
File:Stoughton SK - road and grain elevator.jpg, Road and grain elevator
File:Stoughton SK - grain elevator.jpg, Grain elevator
File:Stoughton SK - petrol station.jpg, Rest stop
File:Stoughton, Sk clubhouse & tourist info centre.jpg, The tourist Info Centre and golf clubhouse
File:Stoughton, Sk golf course & grain elevator.jpg, Stoughton golf course and grain elevator
File:Stoughton, Sk grain elevators.jpg, Both of Stoughton's grain elevators alongside the railway
See also
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List of communities in Saskatchewan
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List of towns in Saskatchewan
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References
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Towns in Saskatchewan
Canadian Pacific Railway
Tecumseh No. 65, Saskatchewan
Division No. 1, Saskatchewan
1904 establishments in the Northwest Territories