Broadview, Saskatchewan
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| Coordinates: 50°22′34″N 102°34′44″W / 50.376°N 102.579°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Saskatchewan |
| Region | Saskatchewan |
| Census division | No. 5 |
| Post office Founded | 1882-11-01 |
| Incorporated (Village) | 1898 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Sidney Criddle |
| • Member of legislative assembly | Don Toth |
| • Member of Parliament | Ed Komarnicki |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2.45 km2 (0.95 sq mi) |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Total | 611 |
| • Density | 248.9/km2 (645/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CST |
| Postal code | S0G 0K0 |
| Area code(s) | 306 |
| Highways |
Trans Canada Highway Highway 13 Highway 18 Highway 201 |
Broadview is a community in Saskatchewan along the #1 highway, the Trans Canada Highway, 155 kilometres (96 mi) east of Regina. The local economy is based mainly on agriculture. It is also the administrative headquarters of the Rural Municipality of Elcapo No. 154
The North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) set up a divisional post in Broadview in 1885. Sergeant Bill, a goat from Broadview served as the mascot for the 5th Battalion, CEF, during World War I. The goat received a decoration, and after its passing resides now in the Broadview Museum. The Broadview railway station was designated a historic railway station in 1992.
Broadview is located in the Indian Head Plain of the Aspen Parkland ecoregion. The physiographic region is the Qu'Appelle plains in the Saskatchewan Plains physiographic region. Broadview is within the topographical area of Weed Hills. The bedrock geology belongs to that of the Mannville Group, a stratigraphical unit of Cretaceous age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin formed during the lower Cretaceous period. The area is characterised by lush rolling grasslands, interspersed with poplar bluffs (in prairie Canadian terminology poplar groves surrounding sloughs) and open sloughs. The Cowessess, Kahkewistahaw, Ochapowace Indian reserves are within 20 kilometres (12 mi) of Broadview.Highway 201 provides access to Bird's Point Resort (Saskatchewan) located at Round Lake (Saskatchewan) in the Qu'Appelle Valley.
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