Sturgis is a town of 620 people in east-central
Saskatchewan
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, Canada. The Town of Sturgis is north of
Yorkton
Yorkton is a city located in south-eastern Saskatchewan, Canada. It is about north-west of Winnipeg and south-east of Saskatoon and is the sixth largest city in the province.
Yorkton was founded in 1882 and incorporated as a city in 1928. ...
on
Highway 9. It is located in the
Assiniboine River
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valley near the Lakes and Woods region of the province.
The community was named for
Sturgis, South Dakota
Sturgis is a city in Meade County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 7,020 as of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. It is the county seat of Meade County and is named after Samuel D. Sturgis, a Union Army, Union general dur ...
, where Fred Clyde Brooks, the first postmaster, had been raised.
The
Sturgis railway station receives scheduled
Via Rail
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As of December 2023, Via Rail operates 406 trains per week across eight ...
service.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
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conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Sturgis 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 2011, the median age of the population in Sturgis increased in 2001 to 51.2 years of age versus 49.7 in 2006. The median age of the division was 46.1 in 2011 and 38.2 for the province.
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Economy
* Chamber of Commerce
* Sturgis Economic Development Corp
* Sturgis Tourist Information Booth
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Attractions
* Station House Museum
* Skating and Curling Rinks
* Sturgis & District Community Hall
* Sturgis Ski Hill
*
Sturgis & District Regional Park
Churches
* Grace United Church
* Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses
* St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church
* Evangelical Church
* Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church
Education
Sturgis is home to Sturgis Elementary School and Sturgis Composite High School a part of the Good Spirit School Division No. 204
* Parkland Regional Library - Sturgis Branch
* The Kinette Club of Sturgis Nursery School
* Good Spirit School Division Band
See also
*
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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List of towns in Saskatchewan
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A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a populati ...
References
External links
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Towns in Saskatchewan
Division No. 9, Saskatchewan