Ponteix
Town in Saskatchewan, Canada
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::summary Town in Saskatchewan, Canada ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox settlement"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Ponteix |
| official_name | Town of Ponteix |
| native_name | |
| settlement_type | Town |
| image_skyline | Ponteix Town Hall.jpg |
| image_caption | Ponteix town hall |
| pushpin_map | CAN SK Auvergne#Saskatchewan |
| coordinates | |
| subdivision_type | Country |
| subdivision_name | Canada |
| subdivision_type1 | Province |
| subdivision_name1 | Saskatchewan |
| subdivision_type2 | Region |
| leader_title | Mayor |
| leader_name | Kurt Dixon |
| leader_title1 | Town Manager |
| leader_name1 | Lynne Lemieux |
| leader_title2 | Governing body |
| leader_name2 | Ponteix Town Council |
| leader_title3 | MLA |
| leader_name3 | |
| leader_title4 | MP |
| leader_name4 | |
| established_title | Post office Founded |
| established_date | 1908-10-01 |
| established_title2 | Village Incorporated |
| established_title3 | Town Incorporated |
| unit_pref | |
| area_total_km2 | 1.09 |
| population_as_of | 2021 |
| population_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 | 2014-08-02}} |
| population_total | 577 |
| population_density_km2 | 485.2 |
| timezone | Central Standard Time |
| utc_offset | −6 |
| elevation_footnotes | tags-- |
| postal_code_type | Postal code |
| postal_code | S0N 1Z0 |
| area_code | 306 |
| blank_name | Highways |
| blank_info | Highway 13 |
| Highway 612 | |
| blank1_name | Waterways |
| blank1_info | Notukeu Creek |
| website | |
| footnotes | {{Cite web |
| last | National Archives |
| first | Archivia Net |
| title | Post Offices and Postmasters |
| url | http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/post-offices/001001-100.01-e.php |
| access-date | 2013-11-22}}{{Cite web |
| last | Government of Saskatchewan |
| first | MRD Home |
| title | Municipal Directory System |
| url | http://www.mds.gov.sk.ca/apps/Pub/MDS/welcome.aspx |
| access-date | 2013-11-22}} |
| :: |
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Ponteix (, ) is a town in southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada, 86 km southeast of Swift Current. It is on Highway 628, just north of Highway 13.
History
In 1908, Father Albert-Marie Royer from the Auvergne region in France established a parish and hamlet called Notre-Dame d’Auvergne north of Notukeu Creek. Five years later, the townsite was moved south of the creek when the Canadian Pacific Railway laid track there. After the move, the community was renamed Ponteix after Father Royer's former parish in France (Le Ponteix, commune of Aydat).{{cite web | title =Town of Ponteix website | url =http://www.townofponteix.com/default.aspx?page=23 | access-date = 2012-12-20}}
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Ponteix had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 1.19 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.
Climate
| location = Ponteix, Saskatchewan | metric first = yes | single line = yes | Jan record high C = 10.6 | Feb record high C = 5.8 | Mar record high C = 13.9 | Apr record high C = 21.4 | May record high C = 29.6 | Jun record high C = 32.8 | Jul record high C = 34.5 | Aug record high C = 34.1 | Sep record high C = 32.0 | Oct record high C = 23.6 | Nov record high C = 15.0 | Dec record high C = 9.1 | year record high C = 34.5 | Jan high C = -9.6 | Feb high C = -11.6 | Mar high C = -5.8 | Apr high C = 3.7 | May high C = 11.2 | Jun high C = 17.4 | Jul high C = 21.0 | Aug high C = 20.2 | Sep high C = 13.1 | Oct high C = 5.1 | Nov high C = -6.0 | Dec high C = -9.5 | year high C = 4.3 | Jan mean C = -14.4 | Feb mean C = -16.8 | Mar mean C = -10.6 | Apr mean C = -2.0 | May mean C = 5.3 | Jun mean C = 11.1 | Jul mean C = 14.1 | Aug mean C = 13.1 | Sep mean C = 6.8 | Oct mean C = 0.1 | Nov mean C = -10.0 | Dec mean C = -13.8 | year mean C = -2.1 | Jan low C = -19.1 | Feb low C = -22.0 | Mar low C = -15.4 | Apr low C = -8.0 | May low C = 0.5 | Jun low C = 4.7 | Jul low C = 7.1 | Aug low C = 5.9 | Sep low C = 0.6 | Oct low C = -4.9 | Nov low C = -14.8 | Dec low C = -18.1 | year low C = -6.4 | Jan record low C = -39.0 | Feb record low C = -43.5 | Mar record low C = -34.4 | Apr record low C = -27.5 | May record low C = -15.0 | Jun record low C = -6.4 | Jul record low C = -2.5 | Aug record low C = -3.5 | Sep record low C = -11.5 | Oct record low C = -26.5 | Nov record low C = -35.5 | Dec record low C = -39.5 | year record low C = -43.5 | Jan precipitation mm = 16 | Feb precipitation mm = 9 | Mar precipitation mm = 15 | Apr precipitation mm = 23 | May precipitation mm = 55 | Jun precipitation mm = 70 | Jul precipitation mm = 61 | Aug precipitation mm = 47 | Sep precipitation mm = 27 | Oct precipitation mm = 18 | Nov precipitation mm = 15 | Dec precipitation mm = 17 | year precipitation mm = 363 | Jan snow inch = 6.3 | Feb snow inch = 5.4 | Mar snow inch = 4.7 | Apr snow inch = 1.9 | May snow inch = 0.3 | Jun snow inch = 0.0 | Jul snow inch = 0.0 | Aug snow inch = 0.0 | Sep snow inch = 0.1 | Oct snow inch = 1.4 | Nov snow inch = 3.1 | Dec snow inch = 5.5 | year snow inch = 28.7 | Jan precipitation days= 6.9 | Feb precipitation days= 5.1 | Mar precipitation days= 6.3 | Apr precipitation days= 5.9 | May precipitation days= 8.4 | Jun precipitation days= 8.4 | Jul precipitation days= 7.4 | Aug precipitation days= 6.3 | Sep precipitation days= 5.8 | Oct precipitation days= 5.6 | Nov precipitation days= 6.7 | Dec precipitation days= 6.8 | year precipitation days= 80.6 | Jan snow days = 9.2 | Feb snow days = 7.5 | Mar snow days = 6.4 | Apr snow days = 2.7 | May snow days = 0.4 | Jun snow days = 0.0 | Jul snow days = 0.0 | Aug snow days = 0.0 | Sep snow days = 0.2 | Oct snow days = 2.4 | Nov snow days = 6.6 | Dec snow days = 9.4 | year snow days = 45.8 | Jan humidity = 77 | Feb humidity = 70 | Mar humidity = 62 | Apr humidity = 55 | May humidity = 51 | Jun humidity = 54 | Jul humidity = 55 | Aug humidity = 57 | Sep humidity = 59 | Oct humidity = 63 | Nov humidity = 71 | Dec humidity = 77 | year humidity = 63 | Jan sun = 95.0 | Feb sun = 118.0 | Mar sun = 177.0 | Apr sun = 224.0 | May sun = 285.0 | Jun sun = 330.0 | Jul sun = 348.0 | Aug sun = 313.0 | Sep sun = 243.0 | Oct sun = 166.0 | Nov sun = 91.0 | Dec sun = 71.0 | year sun = 2451.0 |date=May 2024}}
According to the 2011 federal census, 175 of Ponteix's residents spoke both official languages (English and French). |location = Ponteix |2021_population=577 | 2021_pop_delta=+2.5 | 2021_land_area=1.19 | 2021_pop_density=485.2 |2021_median_age=46 | 2021_median_age_m=43.6 | 2021_median_age_f=48.8 |2021_total_pvt_dwell=245 |2021_mean_hh_income= |2021_geocode=2021A00054703058 | 2021_access_date=2022-04-27 |2011_population=605 |2011_pop_delta=+13.9 |2011_land_area=1.09 |2011_pop_density=556.0 |2011_pop_rank= |2011_median_age=51.6 |2011_median_age_m=47.0 |2011_median_age_f=55.8 |2011_total_pvt_dwell=268 |2011_total_pvt_dwell_usual=246 |2011_mean_hh_income= |2011_access_date=2012-12-20
|2006_population=531 |2006_pop_delta=-3.5 |2006_land_area=1.09 |2006_pop_density=488.0 |2006_pop_rank= |2006_median_age=56.8 |2006_median_age_m=54.5 |2006_median_age_f=57.9 |2006_total_pvt_dwell=277 |2006_total_pvt_dwell_usual=234 |2006_mean_hh_income=41,827 |2006_access_date=2009-02-24
Notukeu Regional Park
Notukeu Regional Park () is a regional park along the banks of Notukeu Creek and adjacent to Ponteix. The park has a campground, golf course, spray park, and swimming pool. It is a small park that was founded in 1964.
The campground has 30 serviced campsites plus a tenting area. The Ponteix Golf Club has grass greens and is a 9-hole, par 33 course that totals 2,485 yards. There is a licensed clubhouse and pro shop.
Attractions
- Plesiosaur Statue: Near Ponteix was the site of a plesiosaur find in the early 1990s. In 1995 community members and students of Ponteix school contributed small articles to this plesiosaur statue before it was filled with cement and painted by the townspeople in a ceremony commemorating the discovery of the original plesiosaur's bones.{{cite web | title =Big Things (Village of Ponteix, Saskatchewan) | url =http://www.bigthings.ca/sask/ponteix.html | access-date = 2012-12-20}}
- Notukeu Heritage Museum in Ponteix features prehistoric artifacts.{{cite web | title =Museums Association of Saskatchewan (Notukeu Heritage Museum) | url =http://www.saskmuseums.org/museums/museum_search.php?id=144 | access-date = 2012-12-20}}
- Notre Dame D'Auvergne Catholic Church, a brick and concrete structure in Ponteix built in 1929, features twin steeples and houses a large wood carving of the Pieta.{{cite web | title =Notre Dame D'Auvergne Catholic Church | url =http://www.ourladyofthefields.ca/ponteix.htm | access-date =2012-12-20 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20040222065430/http://www.ourladyofthefields.ca/ponteix.htm | archive-date =2004-02-22 | url-status =dead | title =Saskatchewan’s Marian Shrines | url =http://www.cchahistory.ca/journal/CCHA1954/Weber.htm | access-date = 2012-12-20}}
Notable residents
References
| Northwest = Neville | North = Pambrun | Northeast = Vanguard | West = Cadillac | Centre = Ponteix | East = Aneroid | Southwest = Val Marie | South = Montana, USA Grasslands National Park | Southeast = Mankota
References
- "Notukeu Creek". Government of Canada.
- (February 9, 2022). "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions (municipalities), Saskatchewan". [[Statistics Canada]].
- "Notukeu Regional Park". Government of Canada.
- "Notukeu Regional Park". Government of Saskatchewan.
- "Notukeu". Saskatchewan Regional Parks.
- "Ponteix Golf Club". GolfPass.
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