Estevan

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City in Saskatchewan, Canada

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::summary City in Saskatchewan, Canada ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox settlement"]

Field	Value
name	Estevan
official_name	City of Estevan
nickname	The Energy City
image_skyline	War of the worlds (4956917528).jpg
image_blank_emblem	CityofEstevan-Logo-CMYK-edit.jpg
blank_emblem_size	220
blank_emblem_type	Logo
pushpin_map	Canada Saskatchewan
pushpin_label_position	top
pushpin_map_caption	Location of Estevan in Saskatchewan
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Canada
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Saskatchewan
government_type	Mayor–council government
leader_title	Mayor
leader_name	Anthony Sernick
established_title	First settler
established_date	1892
established_title1	Village
established_date1	1899
established_title2	Town
established_date2	1906
established_title3	City
established_date3	March 1, 1957
area_footnotes
area_land_km2	9.16
population_as_of	2021
population_total	10,851
population_density_km2	1,228.9
population_blank1_title	Ethnicities
coordinates
postal_code_type	Forward sortation area
postal_code	S4A
website
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::callout[type=note] the city in Saskatchewan, Canada ::

Estevan is the eleventh-largest city in Saskatchewan, Canada. It is approximately 16 km north of the Canada–United States border. The Souris River runs by the city. This city is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Estevan No. 5.

History

The first settlers in what was to become Estevan arrived in 1892, along with the expansion of the Canadian Pacific Railway. It was incorporated as a village in 1899, and later became a town in 1906. On March 1, 1957, Estevan acquired the status of a city, which, in Saskatchewan terms, is any community of 5,000 or more.{{cite encyclopedia |url = http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/estevan.html |title = Estevan |last = Salmers |first = G.C. |encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan |publisher = Great Plains Research Center |date = 2006 |access-date = 2010-11-03 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121124095635/http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/estevan.html |archive-date = 2012-11-24 |url-status = dead

The name origin is attributed to George Stephen's registered telegraphic address, Estevan. George Stephen was the first President of the Canadian Pacific Railway, from 1881 to 1888.

World War I military unit

On December 22, 1915, the 152nd (Weyburn-Estevan) Battalion, CEF was authorised and recruited men from the area before departing to Great Britain on October 3, 1916.

1931 riot

Estevan was the site of the notorious Estevan riot in 1931. Although most of the strikers were from nearby Bienfait, the strike is associated with Estevan because it was in this city the demonstrators were met by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. After the subsequent riot, which lasted 45 minutes, three strikers lay dead. It was later proven the three miners had been killed by the RCMP. The miners had been organised by the Workers' Unity League.

Demographics

|title = Population history of Estevan |type = Canada |align = none |width = |cols = 2 |shading = |percentages = |footnote = Population amounts are not adjusted for boundary changes. |source = Statistics Canada |1901|181 |1911|1,981 |1921|2,290 |1931|2,936 |1941|3,120 |1951|3,935 |1961|7,728 |1971|9,150 |1981|9,174 |1991|10,240 |2001|10,242 |2006|10,084 |2011|11,054 |2016|11,258 |2021|10,851

Ethnicity

::data[format=table title="[[Panethnicity|Panethnic]] groups in the City of Estevan (2001−2021)"]

Panethnic group	2021	2011	2001	%	%
European	8,485	9,100	9,850	9,410	9,605
Southeast Asian	1,015	985	195	15	35
Indigenous	560	630	475	345	335
South Asian	170	250	85	30	10
East Asian	170	80	85	20	85
African	140	125	70	60	0
Middle Eastern	30	20	0	0	0
Latin American	10	30	0	40	0
Other/multiracial	45	45	0	0	10
Note: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses
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Economy

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The major industries in Estevan are coal mining, power generation at nearby Boundary Dam Power Station and Shand Power Station, oil and gas, and agriculture.

Arts and culture

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Museums and galleries

The city of Estevan has two museums, one of which is primarily a gallery.

The Estevan Art Gallery and Museum, formerly the Estevan National Exhibition Centre, was founded in 1978. The Estevan Art Gallery is a free public gallery that showcases contemporary art. The Gallery's permanent collection includes woodblock-print works by Andrew King. The Estevan Art Gallery and Museum, EAGM, also features the North-West Mounted Police Wood End Post Historical Site, NWMP Museum. This museum is in a house which is the oldest-known North-West Mounted Police Detachment Post in Saskatchewan and holds a collection related to the North-West Mounted Police and the 1874 March West from Roche Percee to Estevan.

The Souris Valley Museum, SVM, is a local and regional history museum focused on human development and daily life within south-east Saskatchewan. It was founded in 2001, primarily from the collection of Stan Durr. The museum provides an engaging depiction of the social and cultural influences and economic development of south-east Saskatchewan. The collection includes the Schneller Schoolhouse, a Threshing Cook Car, a Homesteader Shack, two of Estevan's original Firetrucks, and a Heritage Mining Display.

Arts council

The Estevan Arts Council, founded in 1967, is a non-profit organisation that offers art classes and workshops, adjudicates art shows, hosts concerts, and provides a youth art scholarships through the work of volunteers and community donations and grants.

Sports

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Affinity Place is a 2,650 seat Multi-Purpose Entertainment and Sports Facility that was built to supplement the two other ageing ice surfaces in Estevan, the Civic Auditorium and Lignite Miners Centre. It opened on 15 April 2011. Affinity Place is home to the Estevan Bruins, a junior ice hockey team playing in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL), and the Midget AAA Estevan Bears. Affinity Place also has a Racquetball court, swimming pool, and a gym. Right next to Affinity Place is the Estevan Curling Club.

The nine-team Saskota Baseball League has two teams in Estevan, the Southeast Diamondbacks and the Estevan Tap House Wolves.

A former Estevan team, the Estevan Bears, played in the Big 6 Hockey League. They won the Lincoln Trophy three straight years from 1985 to 1987. CJSL AM 1150 broadcasts many Big 6 hockey games.

The Estevan Motor Speedway hosts regular stock car races in the summer. It’s the only racetrack in Canada certified by the International Motor Contest Association (IMCA).

The city's only high school, Estevan Comprehensive School, offers athletics in a range of sports including football, volleyball and basketball.

Climate

Estevan has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dfb) It falls into the NRC Plant Hardiness Zone 4a.

Estevan's climate is characterized by cold, long, and dry winters with warm, short and, relatively humid summers. The mean temperature in January, the coldest month, is -13.9 C. The precipitation in winter is chiefly snow, averaging 56.0 cm. The spring is a short transitional season, with a mean temperature of 4.4 C and 107.3 mm of precipitation, with significant snowfall in April. The summer is usually warm (the mean average high temperature is 25.3 C (average high in July, the warmest month, is 25.9 C and humid (190.8 mm of total precipitation). Autumn, as spring, is transitional, being warm in September and cooler in October and November. At this time of the year, the average temperature is 4.6 C and the total precipitation is 85.9 mm. Estevan is the sunniest city year-round in Canada, and it is also the city with the clearest skies year round in Canada.

The highest temperature ever recorded in Estevan was 43.3 C on 5 July 1936,{{cite web | url = http://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_data/daily_data_e.html?hlyRange=%7C&dlyRange=1899-06-01%7C1944-10-31&mlyRange=1899-01-01%7C1944-12-01&StationID=2895&Prov=SK&urlExtension=_e.html&searchType=stnName&optLimit=yearRange&StartYear=1840&EndYear=1900&selRowPerPage=25&Line=0&searchMethod=contains&Month=7&Day=2&txtStationName=estevan&timeframe=2&Year=1936 | title = July 1936 | work = Canadian Climate Data | date = 31 October 2011 | publisher = Environment Canada | access-date = 6 April 2016}} and 5 July 1937.{{cite web | url = http://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_data/daily_data_e.html?hlyRange=%7C&dlyRange=1899-06-01%7C1944-10-31&mlyRange=1899-01-01%7C1944-12-01&StationID=2895&Prov=SK&urlExtension=_e.html&searchType=stnName&optLimit=yearRange&StartYear=1840&EndYear=1900&selRowPerPage=25&Line=0&searchMethod=contains&Month=7&Day=2&txtStationName=estevan&timeframe=2&Year=1937 | title = July 1937 | work = Canadian Climate Data | date = 31 October 2011 | publisher = Environment Canada | access-date = 6 April 2016}} The coldest temperature ever recorded was -46.7 C on 11 January 1916,{{cite web | url = http://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_data/daily_data_e.html?hlyRange=%7C&dlyRange=1899-06-01%7C1944-10-31&mlyRange=1899-01-01%7C1944-12-01&StationID=2895&Prov=SK&urlExtension=_e.html&searchType=stnName&optLimit=yearRange&StartYear=1840&EndYear=1900&selRowPerPage=25&Line=0&searchMethod=contains&Month=1&Day=2&txtStationName=estevan&timeframe=2&Year=1916 | title = January 1916 | work = Canadian Climate Data | date = 31 October 2011 | publisher = Environment Canada | access-date = 6 April 2016}} and 16 February 1936.{{cite web | url = http://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_data/daily_data_e.html?hlyRange=%7C&dlyRange=1899-06-01%7C1944-10-31&mlyRange=1899-01-01%7C1944-12-01&StationID=2895&Prov=SK&urlExtension=_e.html&searchType=stnName&optLimit=yearRange&StartYear=1840&EndYear=1900&selRowPerPage=25&Line=0&searchMethod=contains&Month=2&Day=2&txtStationName=estevan&timeframe=2&Year=1936 | title = February 1936 | work = Canadian Climate Data | date = 31 October 2011 | publisher = Environment Canada | access-date = 6 April 2016}}

|location = Estevan Airport, elevation: 572 m, 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1900–present |metric first = Y |single line = Y |collapsed = |Jan record high C = 11.4 |Feb record high C = 17.0 |Mar record high C = 26.1 |Apr record high C = 32.2 |May record high C = 38.7 |Jun record high C = 39.1 |Jul record high C = 43.3 |Aug record high C = 41.1 |Sep record high C = 38.3 |Oct record high C = 33.3 |Nov record high C = 22.1 |Dec record high C = 15.6 |year record high C = 43.3 |Jan high C = -8.4 |Feb high C = -6.2 |Mar high C = 1.0 |Apr high C = 11.1 |May high C = 18.3 |Jun high C = 22.7 |Jul high C = 25.9 |Aug high C = 26.0 |Sep high C = 20.3 |Oct high C = 11.2 |Nov high C = 1.3 |Dec high C = -6.0 |year high C = 9.8 |Jan mean C = −13.9 |Feb mean C = −11.8 |Mar mean C = -4.5 |Apr mean C = 4.4 |May mean C = 11.2 |Jun mean C = 16.3 |Jul mean C = 19.1 |Aug mean C = 18.4 |Sep mean C = 12.9 |Oct mean C = 4.8 |Nov mean C = -4.0 |Dec mean C = -11.2 |year mean C = 3.5 |Jan low C = -19.4 |Feb low C = -17.3 |Mar low C = -10.0 |Apr low C = -2.2 |May low C = 4.1 |Jun low C = 10.0 |Jul low C = 12.3 |Aug low C = 10.8 |Sep low C = 5.3 |Oct low C = -1.7 |Nov low C = -9.3 |Dec low C = -16.3 |year low C = -2.8 |Jan record low C = -46.7 |Feb record low C = -46.7 |Mar record low C = -36.7 |Apr record low C = -25.0 |May record low C = -10.6 |Jun record low C = -3.9 |Jul record low C = -0.6 |Aug record low C = -3.3 |Sep record low C = -11.1 |Oct record low C = -21.5 |Nov record low C = -32.8 |Dec record low C = -39.5 |year record low C = -46.7 |precipitation colour = green |Jan precipitation mm = 16.7 |Feb precipitation mm = 14.9 |Mar precipitation mm = 18.9 |Apr precipitation mm = 27.3 |May precipitation mm = 65.7 |Jun precipitation mm = 84.7 |Jul precipitation mm = 66.2 |Aug precipitation mm = 47.4 |Sep precipitation mm = 45.5 |Oct precipitation mm = 29.2 |Nov precipitation mm = 19.9 |Dec precipitation mm = 18.4 |year precipitation mm = 454.9 |rain colour = green |Jan rain mm = 0.67 |Feb rain mm = 1.2 |Mar rain mm = 7.1 |Apr rain mm = 16.3 |May rain mm = 52.1 |Jun rain mm = 74.8 |Jul rain mm = 67.5 |Aug rain mm = 51.7 |Sep rain mm = 35.7 |Oct rain mm = 20.4 |Nov rain mm = 3.7 |Dec rain mm = 0.49 |year rain mm = 331.6 |snow colour = green |Jan snow cm = 22.2 |Feb snow cm = 15.3 |Mar snow cm = 16.5 |Apr snow cm = 7.9 |May snow cm = 4.0 |Jun snow cm = 0.05 |Jul snow cm = 0.0 |Aug snow cm = 0.0 |Sep snow cm = 0.47 |Oct snow cm = 7.7 |Nov snow cm = 16.4 |Dec snow cm = 20.1 |year snow cm = 110.7 |unit precipitation days= 0.2 mm |Jan precipitation days = 10.2 |Feb precipitation days = 8.4 |Mar precipitation days = 8.6 |Apr precipitation days = 9.5 |May precipitation days = 11.5 |Jun precipitation days = 14.2 |Jul precipitation days = 10.6 |Aug precipitation days = 9.4 |Sep precipitation days = 9.1 |Oct precipitation days = 7.8 |Nov precipitation days = 8.2 |Dec precipitation days = 11.5 |year precipitation days = 118.9 |unit rain days = 0.2 mm |Jan rain days = 0.63 |Feb rain days = 0.87 |Mar rain days = 3.1 |Apr rain days = 5.9 |May rain days = 11.1 |Jun rain days = 13.5 |Jul rain days = 11.1 |Aug rain days = 10.0 |Sep rain days = 8.8 |Oct rain days = 5.9 |Nov rain days = 1.9 |Dec rain days = 0.87 |year rain days = 73.7 |unit snow days = 0.2 cm |Jan snow days = 10.8 |Feb snow days = 8.4 |Mar snow days = 7.1 |Apr snow days = 3.2 |May snow days = 0.97 |Jun snow days = 0.03 |Jul snow days = 0.0 |Aug snow days = 0.0 |Sep snow days = 0.37 |Oct snow days = 2.4 |Nov snow days = 6.8 |Dec snow days = 11.4 |year snow days = 51.6 |Jan sun = 113.8 |Feb sun = 135.9 |Mar sun = 178.6 |Apr sun = 230.1 |May sun = 257.3 |Jun sun = 276.2 |Jul sun = 324.8 |Aug sun = 292.8 |Sep sun = 213.2 |Oct sun = 170.8 |Nov sun = 111.6 |Dec sun = 99.2 |year sun = 2404.3 |Jan percentsun = 42.2 |Feb percentsun = 47.5 |Mar percentsun = 48.6 |Apr percentsun = 56.0 |May percentsun = 54.3 |Jun percentsun = 57.0 |Jul percentsun = 66.4 |Aug percentsun = 65.6 |Sep percentsun = 56.2 |Oct percentsun = 50.9 |Nov percentsun = 40.5 |Dec percentsun = 38.6 |year percentsun = 52.0 |source 1= Environment Canada{{cite web | url = ftp://ftp.tor.ec.gc.ca/Pub/Normals/English/ | title = Estevan A | work = Canadian Climate Normals 1981–2010 | publisher = Environment Canada | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200714071822/ftp://ftp.tor.ec.gc.ca/Pub/Normals/English/ | archive-date = 2020-07-14 | url-status = dead | access-date = October 26, 2013}}{{cite web | url = http://climate.weather.gc.ca/historical_data/search_historic_data_stations_e.html?searchType=stnName&timeframe=1&txtStationName=estevan&searchMethod=contains&optLimit=yearRange&StartYear=1840&EndYear=1900&Year=2016&Month=6&Day=2&selRowPerPage=25 | title = Estevan (1900-1944) | work = Canadian Climate Data | date = 31 October 2011 | publisher = Environment Canada | access-date = 6 April 2016}}{{cite web | url = https://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_normals/results_1991_2020_e.html?searchType=stnProv&lstProvince=&txtCentralLatMin=0&txtCentralLatSec=0&txtCentralLongMin=0&txtCentralLongSec=0&stnID=246000000&dispBack=0 | title = Canadian Climate Normals 1991-2020 Data | work = Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 | publisher = Environment Canada | access-date = 2 October 2023}} |date=December 2013}}

Gallery

Local media

Newspapers

The Estevan Mercury, the newspaper in Estevan since 1903, provided weekly distribution to every household in the city free of charge until 2025, when it ceased publication. The outlet continues to provide local information through its online affiliate, Sasktoday.ca. It also had a free TMC newspaper circulated throughout southeast Saskatchewan to over 9,000 homes; the Southeast Trader Express.
Pipeline News, Saskatchewan Petroleum Monthly newspaper is also based out of Estevan. Southeast Saskatchewan has a significant amount of oil production, and the Pipeline News' main office is situated locally to report on these matters.
Estevan Lifestyles is a free circulation weekly publication that shares the stories of the people in the Estevan area and the southeast corner of Saskatchewan. The publication also publishes NewsBreak, a daily coffee paper geared towards lighter reading.

Radio

CJSL AM 1150, CHSN-FM 102.3, and CKSE-FM 106.1 all broadcast from studios on 5th Street in Estevan.
The news website DiscoverEstevan.com is also run by the radio station offering local news, weather, and sports. All are owned by Golden West Broadcasting.

Notable residents

Blair Atcheynum, National Hockey League (NHL) player
Dave Batters, politician
Dennis Cooley, poet
Kimbi Daniels, hockey player
Ana Egge, folk singer/songwriter
Mina Forsyth, artist
Eric Grimson, computer scientist, educator
Chris Henderson, musician
Howard Hilstrom, politician
Andrew David Irvine, playwright
Tanner Jeannot, NHL player
Todd Kerns, musician
Ross King, author
Bill Knight, politician
Ed Komarnicki, politician
Eli Mandel, poet
Fred Mandel, session musician
Punch McLean, hockey coach
Gerald McLellan, Saskatchewan ombudsman
Al Nicholson, hockey player
Brayden Pachal, NHL player
Derrick Pouliot, NHL player
Arnold Richardson, curler
Andy Shauf, musician
Kim Thorson, lawyer and politician
Blaine Thurier, musician and film producer

References

Notes

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