Unity, Saskatchewan
Town in Saskatchewan, Canada
title: "Unity, Saskatchewan" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["round-valley-no.-410,-saskatchewan", "towns-in-saskatchewan", "division-no.-13,-saskatchewan"] description: "Town in Saskatchewan, Canada" topic_path: "general/round-valley-no-410-saskatchewan" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity,_Saskatchewan" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Town in Saskatchewan, Canada ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox settlement"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| official_name | Town of Unity |
| settlement_type | Town |
| image_caption | Entering the town of Unity |
| motto | Shoppertunity |
| pushpin_map | Saskatchewan#Canada |
| pushpin_label_position | |
| pushpin_map_caption | Location of Unity in Saskatchewan |
| coordinates | |
| subdivision_type | Country |
| subdivision_name | Canada |
| subdivision_type1 | Province |
| subdivision_type2 | Rural municipality |
| subdivision_name1 | Saskatchewan |
| established_title | Post office Founded |
| established_date | 1909-04-01 |
| established_title2 | Village established |
| established_date2 | 1909-06-01 |
| established_title3 | Town incorporated |
| established_date3 | 1909-11-01 |
| leader_title | Mayor |
| leader_name | Bob Abel |
| leader_title1 | Federal Electoral District Battlefords—Lloydminster MP |
| leader_name1 | Rosemarie Falk |
| area_land_km2 | 9.77 |
| population_total | 2,519 |
| population_as_of | 2025 |
| population_density_km2 | 244.6 |
| postal_code_type | Postal Code |
| postal_code | S0K 4L0 |
| area_code | 306-228/210 |
| website | Official Website |
| footnotes | {{Citation |
| last | National Archives |
| first | Archivia Net |
| title | Post Offices and Postmasters |
| 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 | October 6, 2006 |
| last | Government of Saskatchewan |
| first | MRD Home |
| title | Municipal Directory System |
| access-date | 2013-04-30 |
| url-status | dead |
| archive-url | https://web.archive.org/web/20160115125115/http://www.mds.gov.sk.ca/apps/Pub/MDS/welcome.aspx |
| archive-date | January 15, 2016 |
| last | Canadian Textiles Institute. |
| title | CTI Determine your provincial constituency |
| year | 2005 |
| url | http://www.textiles.ca/eng/nonAuthProg/redirect.cfm?path=IssPolContacts§ionID=7601.cfm |
| archive-url | https://web.archive.org/web/20070911025012/http://www.textiles.ca/eng/nonAuthProg/redirect.cfm?path=IssPolContacts§ionID=7601.cfm |
| archive-date | 2007-09-11 |
| url-status | dead |
| 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 |
| url-status | dead |
| archive-url | https://web.archive.org/web/20070421084430/http://www.elections.ca/home.asp |
| archive-date | 21 April 2007 |
| access-date | 8 October 2008 |
| leader_title2 | Provincial Constituency Cut Knife-Turtleford MLA |
| leader_name2 | Ryan Domotor |
| timezone_DST | CST |
| blank1_name | Highways |
| blank1_info | |
| name | Unity |
| :: |
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Unity is a town in the western part of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan{{Citation | last = Adamson | first =J | title =Online Historical Map Digitization Project | date =2007-07-23 | url =http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~canmaps/ |display-authors=etal}} with a population of 2519. Unity is located at the intersection of Highway 14 and Highway 21, and the intersection of the CNR and CPR main rail lines. Unity is located 200 km west-northwest of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and 375 km southeast of Edmonton, Alberta. The town of Wilkie is located 33 km to the east.
The town was the subject of playwright Kevin Kerr's Governor General's Award-winning play Unity (1918), which dramatizes the effect of the 1918 flu pandemic on Unity.
History
With the coming of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1908 Unity began to grow from a small settlement in 1904 to about 600 in the 1920s. By 1966 there were 2,154 residents.{{cite web | title =Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan (Unity, Saskatchewan) | url =http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/unity.html | access-date =2013-04-30}}
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Unity had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 9.7 km2, it had a population density of in 2021. |2021_population=2,496 |2021_pop_delta=-3.0 |2021_land_area=9.70 |2021_pop_density=257.3 |2021_pop_rank= |2021_median_age=42.0 |2021_median_age_m=40.8 |2021_median_age_f=42.8 |2021_total_pvt_dwell=1,148 |2021_total_pvt_dwell_usual=1,042 |2021_mean_hh_income= |2021_access_date=2022-05-04
|2016_population=2,573 |2016_pop_delta=+7.7 |2016_land_area=9.77 |2016_pop_density=263.5 |2016_pop_rank= |2016_median_age=39.6 |2016_median_age_m=37.8 |2016_median_age_f=41.8 |2016_total_pvt_dwell=1,170 |2016_total_pvt_dwell_usual=1,106 |2016_mean_hh_income=40,533 |2016_access_date=2022-05-04
|2011_population=2,389 |2011_pop_delta=+11.3 |2011_land_area=9.77 |2011_pop_density=244.6 |2011_pop_rank= |2011_median_age=42.4 |2011_median_age_m=39.9 |2011_median_age_f=44.6 |2011_total_pvt_dwell=1,119 |2011_total_pvt_dwell_usual=1,073 |2011_mean_hh_income= |2011_access_date=2012-02-29
|2006_population=2,147 |2006_pop_delta=-4.3 |2006_land_area=9.77 |2006_pop_density=219.9 |2006_pop_rank= |2006_median_age=43.5 |2006_median_age_m=41.2 |2006_median_age_f=45.7 |2006_total_pvt_dwell=1,063 |2006_total_pvt_dwell_usual=984 |2006_mean_hh_income=59,876 |2006_access_date=2009-02-24
Attractions
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Attractions in Unity include:{{cite web | title =Town of Unity website | url =http://www.townofunity.com/ | access-date =2013-04-30}}
- The history murals in downtown
- Unity & District Heritage Museum
- Unity Golf Course
- Unity Regional Park housing the Unity Ball Diamonds
- Unity Arena
- Unity Credit Union Aquatics Centre
- Sink and Gordon Lakes are just to the west of Unity, providing wetlands for many migratory birds.
- Muddy Lake is just south of town.
- Kikiskitotawânawak iskwêwak Lakes (formerly Killsquaw Lakes) are about a mile south-east of town
Education
Two elementary schools, St. Peter's Catholic School and Unity Public School offer kindergarten to Grade 6. Unity Composite High School (UCHS) includes Grades 7 to 12. The schools are part of Living Sky School Division No. 202.{{cite web | title =Living Sky School Division No. 202 | url =http://www.lskysd.ca/ | access-date =2013-04-30}}
::data[format=table title="Student Enrollment (2024–2025){{cite web |title=New school, who's this? |url=https://www.sasktoday.ca/north/unity-wilkie-press-herald/new-school-whos-this-9529755 |access-date=2025-03-27}}"]
| School | Grades | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| St. Peter’s Catholic School | K–6 | 121 |
| Unity Public School | K–6 | 235 |
| Unity Composite High School | 7–12 | 325 |
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Transportation
The town receives Via Rail service with The Canadian calling at Unity several times per week. Unity is on the Canadian National Railway tracks. In 1924, the Canadian Pacific Railway crossed the Canadian National Railway at Topaz just west of Unity.
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Notable people
- Boyd Gordon, NHL hockey player
References
References
- (February 9, 2022). "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions (municipalities), Saskatchewan". [[Statistics Canada]].
- "New school, who's this?".
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