Wolseley (
Canada 2011 Census
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population 864) is a town in southeast
Saskatchewan
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, Canada, approximately east of
Regina on the
Trans-Canada Highway
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History
Wolseley's Provincial Court House building was constructed in 1893 and is the oldest surviving courthouse building in the province. The
Town Hall and Opera House, built in 1906, is a classic building used for many community events. Canada's first
Beaver Lumber
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was opened in Wolseley by co-founder E. A. Banbury in 1883. Beaver Lumber is now protected by Heritage status. The Banbury House Inn, which was originally built in 1905 as the private home for E. A. Banbury, was moved from its original location on the north bank of Fairly Lake to the west end of Wolseley to allow expansion of Lakeside Care Home in the 1980s. The Banbury House Inn now serves as a bed and breakfast.
Two private residences are also on the Canadian List of Historic Places. The Perley Residence, located at 206 Front Street, is a two-storey brick house which was the home of several prominent Wolseley residents, including the first miller in town, as well as A. A. Perley.
The home of Wolseley's first mayor,
R. A. Magee, is another heritage property. It remains a private residence and is situated immediately south of the Town Hall and Opera House.
Community
It has two schools, Dr. Isman Elementary School and Wolseley High School. The recently rebuilt "swinging bridge" has been a feature of Wolseley since 1905. It has a twelve-bed hospital, an eighty-bed nursing home, and two resident doctors.
The town is served by three weekly newspapers: ''The Wolseley Bulletin'', ''The Indian Head-Wolseley News'' and ''The Grenfell Sun''. A
tourist information
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radio station, CISE-FM, is based out of Wolseley.
Wolseley has a modern artificial ice arena, a curling rink, a nine-hole golf course, and a public swimming beach which is located on the shore of Fairly Lake, the town's most distinguishing feature. This body of water was formed when the Canadian Pacific Railway dammed Aldair Creek in 1902 to obtain a water supply for its steam engines. Fairly Lake gives the town its nickname (Town By The Lake). The town was named one of Canada's prettiest, most historic towns by ''
Harrowsmith Country Life'' in 2000.
Wolseley is home to a thriving arts community, and in the downtown area, there is an art gallery which is the meeting place of the Wolseley Writers Group, the Wolseley Photography Club, and the Ellisboro Artisans Guild. The Twilite Drive-In Theatre in Wolseley is one of the few left in Saskatchewan. The others include the Jubilee Drive-In Theatre in
Manitou Beach, the Clearwater Drive-In in
Kyle, the Moonlight Movies Drive-in in
Pilot Butte, and the Prairie Dog Drive-in Theatre in
Carlyle.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...
conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Wolseley 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.
See also
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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.
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List of towns in Saskatchewan
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Wolseley No. 155, Saskatchewan
Towns in Saskatchewan
Division No. 5, Saskatchewan