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Unity
Town
Town of Unity
Motto: A good town in a good district
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Coordinates: 52°26′0″N 109°10′0″W / 52.43333°N 109.16667°W / 52.43333; -109.16667
Country	Canada
Province	Saskatchewan
Post office Founded	1909-04-01
Village established	1909-06-01
Town incorporated	1909-11-01
Government
• Mayor	Sharon Del Frari
• Federal Electoral District Battlefords—Lloydminster MP	Rosemarie Falk
• Provincial Constituency Cut Knife-Turtleford MLA	Ryan Domotor
Area
• Land	9.77 km (3.77 sq mi)
Population
• Total	2,573
• Density	244.6/km (634/sq mi)
• Summer (DST)	CST
Postal Code	S0K 4L0
Area code	306-228/210
Highways	Highway 14 / Highway 21
Website	Official Website

Unity is a town in the western part of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan with a population of 2573. Unity is located at the intersection of Highway 14 and Highway 21, and the intersection of the CNR and CPR main rail lines. Unity is located 200 kilometres (125 mi) west-northwest of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and 375 kilometres (235 mi) southeast of Edmonton, Alberta. The town of Wilkie is located 33 kilometres (21 mi) to the east.

The town was the subject of playwright Kevin Kerr's Governor General's Award-winning play Unity (1918), which dramatizes the effect of the 1918 flu pandemic on Unity.

History

With the coming of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1908 Unity began to grow from a small settlement in 1904 to about 600 in the 1920s. By 1966 there were 2,154 residents.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Unity had a population of 2,496 living in 1,042 of its 1,148 total private dwellings, a change of -3% from its 2016 population of 2,573. With a land area of 9.7 km (3.7 sq mi), it had a population density of 257.3/km (666.5/sq mi) in 2021.

Attractions

Attractions in Unity include:

• the history murals in downtown
• Unity & District Heritage Museum
• Unity Golf Course
• Unity Regional Park housing the Unity Ball Diamonds
• Unity Arena.
• Unity Credit Union Aquatics Centre
• Sink and Gordon Lakes are just to the west of Unity, providing wetlands for many migratory birds.
• Muddy Lake is just south of town.

Education

Two elementary schools, St. Peter's Catholic School and Unity Public School offer kindergarten to grade 6. Unity Composite High School] includes grades 7 to 12. The two public schools are in the Living Sky School Division No. 202.

The population of the elementary schools ranges at about 150 students each, while UCHS is between 250 and 300 students with a graduating class of about 30 to 45 students per year.

Transportation

The Unity railway station receives Via Rail service with The Canadian calling at Unity several times per week. Unity is on the Canadian National Railway tracks. In 1924, the Canadian Pacific Railway crossed the Canadian National Railway at Topaz just west of Unity.

Notable people

• Boyd Gordon, NHL hockey player
• Curtis Brown, NHL hockey player

See also

• List of towns in Saskatchewan

References

1. National Archives, Archivia Net, Post Offices and Postmasters, archived from the original on 6 October 2006
2. Government of Saskatchewan, MRD Home, Municipal Directory System, archived from the original on 15 January 2016, retrieved 30 April 2013
3. Canadian Textiles Institute. (2005), CTI Determine your provincial constituency, archived from the original on 11 September 2007
4. Commissioner of Canada Elections, Chief Electoral Officer of Canada (2005), Elections Canada On-line, archived from the original on 21 April 2007
5. Adamson, J; et al. (23 July 2007), Online Historical Map Digitization Project
6. "Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan (Unity, Saskatchewan)". Retrieved 30 April 2013.
7. "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions (municipalities), Saskatchewan". Statistics Canada. 9 February 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
8. "2021 Community Profiles". 2021 Canadian census. Statistics Canada. 4 February 2022. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
9. "2016 Community Profiles". 2016 Canadian census. Statistics Canada. 12 August 2021. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
10. "2011 Community Profiles". 2011 Canadian census. Statistics Canada. 21 March 2019. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
11. "2006 Community Profiles". 2006 Canadian census. Statistics Canada. 20 August 2019.
12. "2001 Community Profiles". 2001 Canadian census. Statistics Canada. 18 July 2021.
13. "Town of Unity website". Retrieved 30 April 2013.
14. "Living Sky School Division No. 202". Retrieved 30 April 2013.

External links

• Official website

v t e Places adjacent to Unity, Saskatchewan
Vera Cut Knife Waseca Thackeray, Swarthmore Macklin, Topaz, Buccleugh Unity Adanac, Phippen, Wilkie Kerrobert

v t e Division No. 13, Saskatchewan
Towns	Cut Knife Kerrobert Kindersley Luseland Macklin Scott Unity Wilkie
Villages	Brock Coleville Denzil Dodsland Flaxcombe Landis Major Marengo Marsden Neilburg Netherhill Plenty Ruthilda Senlac Smiley Tramping Lake
Rural municipalities	Kindersley 290 Milton 292 Winslow 319 Oakdale 320 Prairiedale 321 Antelope Park 322 Grandview 349 Mariposa 350 Progress 351 Heart's Hill 352 Reford 379 Tramping Lake 380 Grass Lake 381 Eye Hill 382 Buffalo 409 Round Valley 410 Senlac 411 Cut Knife 439 Hillsdale 440 Manitou Lake 442
First Nations	Little Pine Poundmaker
Indian reserves	Little Pine 116 Poundmaker 114
Unincorporated communities	Special service areas Alsask Primate Rockhaven Hamlets Cactus Lake Adanac Artland Ava Baldwinton Baljennie Beaufield Brass Broadacres Buccleugh Bush Carruthers Cathkin Cavell Cloan Cosine Court Cutoff Junction Dewar Lake Donegal Driver Druid Evesham Fairmount Freemont Fusilier Gallivan Grosswerder Handel Hearts Hill Hillam Hoosier Kelfield Leipzig Lilydale Loverna Merid Millerdale Onward Phippen Pinkham Poyser Red Pheasant Reford Revenue Reward Rutland St. Alphege Salvador Sunnyglen Superb Swarthmore Swinburne Thackeray Tako Tatsfield Unity Station Unwin Verendrye Wallisville Whitepool Wilbert Winter Wolfe Yonker
See also: Municipalities in Saskatchewan Census divisions of Saskatchewan Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities

• Round Valley No. 410, Saskatchewan
• Towns in Saskatchewan
• Division No. 13, Saskatchewan