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Canora
Saskatchewantown
Canora
Total population
2,092
Founded
1904
Demographic figures from Statistics Canada. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Canora is a town at the junction of Highways 5 and 9 in east-central Saskatchewan, about 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Yorkton. It is centrally located on the corners of four adjacent rural municipalities, including the RM of Good Lake. The community is home to approximately 2,000 residents and is part of the Canora-Pelly electoral district. The community was founded along the Canadian Northern Railway tracks — one of the companies that evolved into the Canadian National Railway (CN), and two CN freight lines still run through Canora. The Canora railway station, downtown on the CN east-west line before the switch to the northbound line, is served by Via Rail on its passenger service from Winnipeg to Churchill, Manitoba. As of 2016, 53% of the town's residents are either from Ukraine or of Ukrainian descent, with the language still widely spoken in the community.
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History
The area around Canora was first settled by Europeans in the late 19th century by Doukhobors, Romanians, and Ukrainians. The first ranchers arrived in the area in 1884. Two years later, in 1886, the land was officially surveyed by the Dominion government. The first Ukrainian block settlement in Saskatchewan was established in 1897 when 150 families arrived in the Canora District from Western Ukraine. In 1904, the Canadian Northern Railway laid tracks through the area and in April of that same year, a post office was opened, a school district established, and a town site was surveyed. A year later, in 1905, Canora was incorporated as a hamlet on the site of the train station, which now serves as the town's museum and tourist information centre. In 1908, Canora became a village. The name Canora is derived from the first two letters of the words "Canadian Northern Railway." By 1910, with a growing population of around 400, Canora had officially achieved the status of a town. In 1912, the first Canora Chamber of Commerce was established. Over the next few decades, the community experienced rapid growth with population levels remaining stable even through the Great Depression. Canora's population peaked in 1966 with about 2,734 residents.
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Geography
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Climate
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Notable people from here
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Nearby places in Saskatchewan
- Sturgeon Lake196.7 mi away
- Big River237.2 mi away · pop. 1,140
- Rudzisko4581.4 mi away · pop. 55
- Petrykozy4581.4 mi away
- Giełzów4582 mi away · pop. 400
- Kamienna Wola4582.1 mi away · pop. 330
- Bernów4582.6 mi away · pop. 160
- Skrzyszów4582.9 mi away · pop. 200
- Maleniec4583.8 mi away · pop. 150
- Wyszyna Machorowska4585.3 mi away · pop. 110
- Gracuch4585.7 mi away · pop. 190
- Komaszyce4587 mi away · pop. 180
Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Books about Canora
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Official Identifiers
StatCan — Statistics Canada
- SGC code
- 4709032
- Wikidata
- Q1099134
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