Stoughton () is a town in

Saskatchewan Saskatchewan is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada. It is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the ...

, 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

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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

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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

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. The town is served by

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, Highway 33, and Highway 47.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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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

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* * {{Authority control Towns in Saskatchewan Canadian Pacific Railway Tecumseh No. 65, Saskatchewan Division No. 1, Saskatchewan 1904 establishments in the Northwest Territories

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