Midale
Town in Saskatchewan, Canada
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::summary Town in Saskatchewan, Canada ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| official_name | Midale |
| settlement_type | Town |
| image_skyline | Midale Saskatchewan 9-2-2013.jpg |
| image_caption | Midale, Saskatchewan |
| pushpin_relief | yes |
| pushpin_map | Canada Saskatchewan |
| pushpin_map_caption | Location of Midale in Saskatchewan |
| subdivision_type | Country |
| subdivision_type1 | Province |
| subdivision_type2 | Rural Municipalities (R.M.) |
| subdivision_name | Canada |
| subdivision_name1 | Saskatchewan |
| subdivision_name2 | Cymri No. 36 |
| leader_title | Mayor |
| leader_name | Allan Hauglum |
| leader_title1 | Federal Electoral District Souris—Moose Mountain M.P. |
| leader_name1 | Robert Kitchen |
| leader_title2 | Provincial Constituency Estevan M.L.A. |
| leader_name2 | Lori Carr |
| established_title | Post office Founded in NWT |
| established_date | 1903-08-01 |
| area_total_km2 | 1.53 |
| population_as_of | 2011 |
| population_total | 562 |
| population_density_km2 | 368.5 |
| timezone | CST |
| coordinates | |
| postal_code_type | Postal code |
| postal_code | S0C 1S0 |
| area_codes | 306, 639 |
| blank_name | Highways |
| blank_info | |
| blank1_name | Waterways |
| website | |
| footnotes | {{cite web |
| title | 2011 Community Profiles |
| work | Statistics Canada |
| publisher | Government of Canada |
| url | http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/index.cfm?Lang=E |
| access-date | 2014-04-09 |
| archive-date | January 6, 2019 |
| archive-url | https://web.archive.org/web/20190106155610/https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/index.cfm?Lang=E%0A |
| url-status | dead |
| }}<ref name | "post office"{{Cite web |
| last | National Archives |
| first | Archivia Net |
| title | Post Offices and Postmasters |
| access-date | 2014-07-15 |
| url-status | dead |
| archive-url | https://web.archive.org/web/20061006045957/http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/post-offices/001001-100.01-e.php |
| archive-date | 2006-10-06 |
| last | Government of Saskatchewan |
| first | MRD Home |
| title | Municipal Directory System |
| access-date | 2014-07-15 |
| url-status | dead |
| archive-url | https://web.archive.org/web/20160115125115/http://www.mds.gov.sk.ca/apps/Pub/MDS/welcome.aspx |
| archive-date | 2016-01-15 |
| }}<ref name | "federal"{{Cite web |
| last | Commissioner of Canada Elections |
| first | Chief Electoral Officer of Canada |
| title | Elections Canada On-line |
| year | 2005 |
| url | http://www.elections.ca/home.asp |
| access-date | 2014-07-15 |
| url-status | dead |
| archive-url | https://web.archive.org/web/20070421084430/http://www.elections.ca/home.asp |
| archive-date | 2007-04-21 |
| :: |
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Midale () is a town in the Rural Municipality of Cymri No. 36, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It is located on Highway 39, midway between the cities of Weyburn and Estevan. It is 160 km south-east of Regina.
History
Midale was incorporated as a village in 1907, although the first settlers of the area arrived in 1903.
Almost all of the original settlers had filed on a 160 acre homestead, offered by the Canadian government for men 18 years and older.
After a period where the settlement was known as the Halbrite and Macoun siding, the original suggestion for a name was "Mitchell" after Dr. R.M. Mitchell, who served an area from Estevan to Moose Jaw between 1899 and 1903. The idea had to be abandoned due to an existing community with the same name, so a compromise was made to combine the first two letters of "Mitchell" with the last name of the man credited as the area's first settler, Ole Dale, creating "Midale."
Midale's first hospital opened on March 7, 1949, with Premier T.C. Douglas paying a visit to the community to cut the ribbon.
The town continues to pay tribute to its agricultural and pioneer roots with the annual Midale Threshing Bee.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Midale had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 1.62 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.
Climate
| Midale | −19.5 | -9.9 | 19.1 | −15.7 | -6.1 | 18.9 | −9.3 | 0.6 | 26.4 | −1.2 | 11.5 | 32.2 | 4.5 | 18.1 | 69.3 | 10.0 | 22.4 | 77.2 | 12.2 | 25.6 | 60.9 | 11.2 | 26.2 | 45.6 | 5.7 | 20.5 | 28.9 | −0.9 | 11.7 | 29.4 | −8.6 | 0.8 | 25.5 | −15.7 | -6.0 | 20.5 |float=left |source=
Midale has a humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb).
On July 5, 1937 a maximum temperature of 45 C was recorded, which was, along with that of the village of Yellow Grass, the highest temperature ever recorded in Canada. This record stood for 84 years until June 27, 2021 when it was surpassed by Lytton, British Columbia, which reached 46.6 C.
|location = Midale, 1981–2010 normals, extremes 1923–present |metric first = yes |single line = yes |Jan record high C = 10.0 |Feb record high C = 17.8 |Mar record high C = 25.0 |Apr record high C = 33.5 |May record high C = 38.9 |Jun record high C = 39.4 |Jul record high C = 45.0 |Aug record high C = 41.7 |Sep record high C = 38.0 |Oct record high C = 33.5 |Nov record high C = 24.0 |Dec record high C = 17.2 |year record high C = 45.0 |Jan high C = -9.9 |Feb high C = -6.1 |Mar high C = 0.6 |Apr high C = 11.5 |May high C = 18.1 |Jun high C = 22.4 |Jul high C = 25.6 |Aug high C = 26.2 |Sep high C = 20.5 |Oct high C = 11.7 |Nov high C = 0.8 |Dec high C = -6.0 |year high C = 9.6 |Jan mean C = -14.7 |Feb mean C = -10.9 |Mar mean C = -4.3 |Apr mean C = 5.2 |May mean C = 11.3 |Jun mean C = 16.2 |Jul mean C = 18.9 |Aug mean C = 18.7 |Sep mean C = 13.2 |Oct mean C = 5.4 |Nov mean C = -4.0 |Dec mean C = -10.9 |year mean C = 3.7 |Jan low C = -19.5 |Feb low C = -15.7 |Mar low C = -9.3 |Apr low C = -1.2 |May low C = 4.5 |Jun low C = 10.0 |Jul low C = 12.2 |Aug low C = 11.2 |Sep low C = 5.7 |Oct low C = -0.9 |Nov low C = -8.6 |Dec low C = -15.7 |year low C = -2.3 |Jan record low C = -43.9 |Feb record low C = -48.3 |Mar record low C = -40.0 |Apr record low C = -26.1 |May record low C = -12.2 |Jun record low C = -4.4 |Jul record low C = -1.7 |Aug record low C = -5.0 |Sep record low C = -11.1 |Oct record low C = -22.8 |Nov record low C = -34.0 |Dec record low C = -44.0 |year record low C = -48.3 |precipitation colour = green |Jan precipitation mm = 19.1 |Feb precipitation mm = 18.9 |Mar precipitation mm = 26.4 |Apr precipitation mm = 32.2 |May precipitation mm = 69.3 |Jun precipitation mm = 77.2 |Jul precipitation mm = 60.9 |Aug precipitation mm = 45.6 |Sep precipitation mm = 28.9 |Oct precipitation mm = 29.4 |Nov precipitation mm = 25.5 |Dec precipitation mm = 20.5 |year precipitation mm = 453.9 |rain colour = green |Jan rain mm = 1.0 |Feb rain mm = 1.0 |Mar rain mm = 6.7 |Apr rain mm = 18.7 |May rain mm = 62.8 |Jun rain mm = 76.9 |Jul rain mm = 60.9 |Aug rain mm = 45.6 |Sep rain mm = 28.9 |Oct rain mm = 19.7 |Nov rain mm = 3.3 |Dec rain mm = 0.1 |year rain mm = 325.5 |Jan snow cm = 18.2 |Feb snow cm = 17.9 |Mar snow cm = 20.0 |Apr snow cm = 13.6 |May snow cm = 6.5 |Jun snow cm = 0.3 |Jul snow cm = 0.0 |Aug snow cm = 0.0 |Sep snow cm = 0.03 |Oct snow cm = 10.4 |Nov snow cm = 22.2 |Dec snow cm = 20.4 |year snow cm = 129.4 |unit precipitation days = 0.2 mm |Jan precipitation days = 8.2 |Feb precipitation days = 5.8 |Mar precipitation days = 7.5 |Apr precipitation days = 7.1 |May precipitation days = 11.3 |Jun precipitation days = 13.9 |Jul precipitation days = 10.4 |Aug precipitation days = 8.7 |Sep precipitation days = 7.2 |Oct precipitation days = 7.1 |Nov precipitation days = 6.7 |Dec precipitation days = 7.7 |year precipitation days = 101.0 |unit rain days = 0.2 mm |Jan rain days = 0.33 |Feb rain days = 0.33 |Mar rain days = 2.2 |Apr rain days = 5.1 |May rain days = 10.9 |Jun rain days = 13.9 |Jul rain days = 10.4 |Aug rain days = 8.7 |Sep rain days = 7.1 |Oct rain days = 5.5 |Nov rain days = 0.73 |Dec rain days = 0.20 |year rain days = 65.5 |unit snow days = 0.2 cm |Jan snow days = 7.9 |Feb snow days = 5.5 |Mar snow days = 5.6 |Apr snow days = 2.5 |May snow days = 0.73 |Jun snow days = 0.07 |Jul snow days = 0.0 |Aug snow days = 0.0 |Sep snow days = 0.06 |Oct snow days = 1.8 |Nov snow days = 5.5 |Dec snow days = 7.6 |year snow days = 37.3 |source 1 = Environment Canada{{cite web | url = ftp://ftp.tor.ec.gc.ca/Pub/Normals/English/SASK/SASK_KURO-SWIF_ENG.csv | title = Midale | work = Canadian Climate Normals 1981–2010 | publisher = Environment Canada | language = en, fr | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200716170603/ftp://ftp.tor.ec.gc.ca/Pub/Normals/English/SASK/SASK_KURO-SWIF_ENG.csv | archive-date = 2020-07-16 | url-status = dead | access-date = 4 June 2016}}{{cite web | url = http://www.climate.weatheroffice.gc.ca/climate_normals/results_e.html?stnID=2964&lang=e&dCode=0&province=SASK&provBut=Search&month1=0&month2=12 | title = Midale, Saskatchewan | work = Canadian Climate Normals 1971–2000 | publisher = Environment Canada | language = en, fr | access-date = January 26, 2013}} |date=August 2010
Parks and recreation
Midale offers a variety of recreational venues. The local ice rink, Harry O Memorial Arena, is home to the Midale Mustangs of the men's senior Big 6 Hockey League. A team from Midale has won the Lincoln Trophy four times, once as the Miners in 1961 and three straight years as the Mustangs in the 2000s. The town also has a curling rink, museum, library, ball diamonds, and an outdoor swimming pool.
Twelve kilometres away is Mainprize Regional Park, which features an 18-golf course, camping, and swimming. Mainprize is on McDonald Lake, which is a man-made lake created in 1994 with the building of Rafferty Dam on the Souris River.
Notable people
- Brad Johner, country music singer-songwriter and musician
- Walt Ledingham, played in the NHL for the Chicago Black Hawks and New York Islanders
- Keely Shaw, Paralympian athlete, Track para-cycling.
References
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References
- "History".
- ["Peel 7399: Hultgren, Peter, A brief history of Midale and district, 1903-1953 (1953])"](http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/7399.html).
- "Peel 7399, p. 27".
- "Midale's Long Weekend: Rodeo thrills and Threshing Bee traditions".
- (February 9, 2022). "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions (municipalities), Saskatchewan". [[Statistics Canada]].
- (May 2010). "Top Weather Events of the 20th Century". Environment Canada.
- (27 June 2021). "Lytton's official high temperature today June 27, 2021 is 46.6 C. Lytton BC now holds the record for Canada's all time maximum high. The previous record was 45.0 C set on July 5, 1937 at Yellow Grass, and Midale, SK.".
- "Big Six Hockey League". Big Six Hockey League.
- "Midale, Saskatchewan". Town of Midale, Saskatchewan.
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