Windthorst (2016 population: 211) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Chester No. 125 and Census Division No. 5. It is accessed from Highway 48.1
History
Windthorst incorporated as a village on August 21, 1907.2
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Windthorst had a population of 194 living in 100 of its 123 total private dwellings, a change of -8.1% from its 2016 population of 211. With a land area of 1.34 km2 (0.52 sq mi), it had a population density of 144.8/km2 (375.0/sq mi) in 2021.5
In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Windthorst recorded a population of 211 living in 109 of its 117 total private dwellings, a -1.9% change from its 2011 population of 215. With a land area of 1.43 km2 (0.55 sq mi), it had a population density of 147.6/km2 (382.2/sq mi) in 2016.6
Sports
The Kipling/Winthorst Oil Kings of the senior men's Big 6 Hockey League play in the local ice rink.7
Notable people
- Edwin Roy Kinch was born in Windthorst in 1918. He was a Catholic priest member of the Order of Servants of Mary. From 1962 to 1970, he was the apostolic prefect of the Apostolic Prefecture of Ingwavuma in South Africa.8
References
References
- "South - Windthorst - Hwy 48". Tourism Saskatchewan. Government of Saskatchewan. Retrieved August 22, 2024.
- "Urban Municipality Incorporations". Saskatchewan Ministry of Government Relations. Archived from the original on October 15, 2014. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
- "Saskatchewan Census Population" (PDF). Saskatchewan Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 24, 2015. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
- "Saskatchewan Census Population". Saskatchewan Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
- "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions (municipalities), Saskatchewan". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved April 1, 2022.
- "Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data (Saskatchewan)". Statistics Canada. February 8, 2017. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
- Big 6 Hockey League
- Dictionnaire biographique des évêques catholiques du Canada, 1658-2012 (PDF) (in French). Ottawa, Ontario: Saint-Paul University. 2012. p. 1146. Retrieved June 5, 2026.
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