Calder, Saskatchewan | ||
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Village | ||
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Location of Calder, Saskatchewan |
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Country | Canada | |
Province | Saskatchewan | |
Region | Southeast | |
Census division | 9 | |
Rural Municipality | Calder | |
Settled | 1888 | |
Incorporated (village) | January 18, 1911 | |
Government | ||
• Type | Calder Village Council | |
• Mayor | Ivan Sobkow | |
• Councillor | Vaughan Shipp | |
• Councillor | Kaili Strand | |
Area | ||
• Total | 30 km2 (12 sq mi) | |
Elevation | 526 m (1,725 ft) | |
Population (2011) | ||
• Total | 97 | |
Time zone | CST | |
Postal Code | S0A 0K0 | |
Area code(s) | (306) | |
Highways |
Highway 8 Highway 10 |
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Railways | Defunct, pulled | |
Calder is a village located in Calder Rural municipality No. 241 in south-eastern Saskatchewan, Canada. The population was 80 in the 2006 census. After the 2011 census, the population had risen to 97, an increase of 21%. The village lies approximately 56 km east of Yorkton, Saskatchewan and 35 km west of Roblin, Manitoba, approximately 5 km south of Highway 8
Highway 10.
The history of Calder goes back to 1888, when a number of Icelanders and others settled just to the south of the present village, calling it the "Logberg" district or "Logberg of the Northwest Territories". By the year 1897, the Icelanders and their other neighbors were quite comfortably settled when a group of Ruthenians from the Austrian provinces of Bukovina and Galicia started arriving by rail between 1897–1898 at Saltcoats. Government agents escorted the new settlers to quarter sections of land where they homesteaded within a five to ten mile radius of the present site of Calder. Additional Romanian immigrants from Bucovina continued to homestead remaining sections south of Calder between 1899–1905.
In the fall of 1910, the Canadian Northern Railway came through and called the site "Third Siding West of Shellmouth". The rail reached the homestead of Mike Rohatensky before halting construction for the winter months. A railway loop was built in Calder where the train turned and journeyed back to Russell.