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Broadview
Saskatchewantown
Broadview
Founded
1882
Demographic figures from Statistics Canada. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Broadview is a town in Saskatchewan along Highway 1, the Trans-Canada Highway, about 155 kilometres (96 mi) east of Regina. The local economy is based mainly on agriculture. It is also the administrative headquarters of the Rural Municipality of Elcapo No. 154
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History
The North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) set up a divisional post in Broadview in 1885. Sergeant Bill, a goat from Broadview, served as the mascot for the 5th Battalion, CEF, during World War I. The goat received a decoration, and after its passing resides now in the Broadview Museum. The Broadview railway station was designated a historic railway station in 1992.
Geography
Broadview is located in the Indian Head Plain of the Aspen Parkland ecoregion. The area is characterised by lush rolling grasslands, interspersed with poplar bluffs and open sloughs. The Cowessess, Kahkewistahaw, Ochapowace Indian reserves are within of Broadview. Highway 201 provides access to Bird's Point Recreation Site and Crooked Lake Provincial Park, which are located in the Qu'Appelle Valley. Broadview has a humid continental climate, with extreme seasonal temperatures. It has hot summers and cold winters, with the average daily temperatures ranging from in January to in July. Annually, temperatures exceed on an average in late July Typically, summer lasts from late June until late August, and the humidity is seldom uncomfortably high. Winter lasts from November to March, and varies greatly in length and severity. Spring and autumn are both short and highly variable. On February 1, 1996, a record windchill of was recorded around 11:00 in the morning. Creating the windchill were north-westerly winds blowing at combined with a temperature of . The coldest temperature ever recorded was on 20 January 1943.
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Geography
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Geography & sun
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Books about Broadview
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Official Identifiers
StatCan — Statistics Canada
- SGC code
- 4705031
- Wikidata
- Q855998
Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) via Wikidata P3012
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Open Library
- • StatCan — Statistics Canada — Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) via Wikidata P3012