The Rural Municipality of Emerald No. 277 ( 2016 population: ) is a

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(RM) in the

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within Census Division No. 10 and Division No. 4.

History

The RM of Emerald No. 277 incorporated as a rural municipality on December 12, 1910.

Geography

Communities and localities

The following unincorporated communities are within the RM. ;

Organized hamlet In most cases in Saskatchewan, a Hamlet (place), 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. S ...

s * Wishart (dissolved as a village, January 1, 2002) ;Localities * Bankend * Wynot

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, the RM of Emerald No. 277 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 Emerald No. 277 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.

Attractions

Touchwood Hills Post Provincial Historic Park Touchwood Hills Post Provincial Park is the location of a former Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) fur trading post that existed from 1879 to 1909 in the Touchwood Uplands of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. In 1986, the site was designated a ...

* Kellross Heritage Museum * Kelliher & District Museum * Foam Lake Marsh

Government

The RM of Emerald No. 277 is governed by an elected municipal council and an appointed administrator that meets on the second Tuesday of every month. The reeve of the RM is Morris Karakochuk while its administrator is Sharolyn Prisiak. The RM's office is located in Wishart.

Transportation

Saskatchewan Highway 35 Highway 35 is a paved undivided provincial highway in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It runs from the US Border near Port of Oungre (where it meets United States Route 85) to a dead end near the north shore of Tobin Lake. Saskatchewa ...

Saskatchewan Highway 639 Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a province in western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dak ...

* Saskatchewan Highway 743

References

{{SKDivision10 E * Division No. 10, Saskatchewan