Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan
| Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan | |
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1897 Hudson's Bay Company Store in Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan
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| Nickname(s): "the Fort" | |
 
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| Coordinates: 50°46′00″N 103°47′00″W / 50.7667°N 103.7833°WCoordinates: 50°46′00″N 103°47′00″W / 50.7667°N 103.7833°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Saskatchewan |
| Region | Saskatchewan |
| Rural Municipality | No. 187 |
| Post office Founded | 1880 |
| Incorporated (town) | 1951 |
| Government | |
| • Governing body | Fort Qu'Appelle Town Council |
| • Mayor | Jerry Whiting |
| • Administrator | Gail Sloan |
| Area | |
| • Total | 5.28 km2 (2.04 sq mi) |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Total | 1,919 |
| • Density | 363.2/km2 (941/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CST |
| Postal code | S0G 1S0 |
| Area code(s) | 306 |
| Waterways | Qu'Appelle River |
| Website | Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan |
| Official name | Fort Qu'Appelle National Historic Site of Canada |
| Designated | 1953 |
Fort Qu'Appelle is a town in Southern Saskatchewan, Canada "located in the Qu'Appelle Valley 70 km NE of Regina between Echo and Mission Lakes" and not to be confused with the once-significant nearby town of Qu'Appelle. It was originally established in 1864 as a Hudson's Bay Company trading post. Fort Qu'Appelle, with its 1,919 residents in 2006, is at the junction of Sk Hwy 35, Sk Hwy 10, Sk Hwy 22, Sk Hwy 22, Sk Hwy 35, Sk Hwy 56, and Sk Hwy 215. The 1897 Hudson’s Bay Company store, 1911 Grand Trunk Pacific Railway station, Fort Qu’Appelle Sanatorium (Fort San), and the Treaty 4 Governance Centre in the shape of a "teepee are all landmarks of this community. Additionally, the Noel Pinay sculpture of a man praying commemorates a burial ground, is a life sized statue in a park beside Segwun Avenue.
The Canada 2006 Census day was May 16, 2006, followed by the Canada 2011 Census day on May 10, 2011. The next census will occur on May 10, 2016.
These figures do not include the substantial population living along the shores of the Fishing Lakes.
The current site is the third Fort Qu'Appelle. The first was a North West Company trading post (1801–05), also in the valley but near what is now the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border. The Hudson's Bay Company itself first used the name for a post north of present-day Whitewood (some 174 kilometres east of Regina on Number 1 Highway) from 1813 to 1819.
Prior to the mid-19th century establishment of the more lengthily surviving fur-trading post at the ultimate site of the town, it "was the hub of several historic trails that traversed the northwest." It was the site of a Hudson's Bay Company post from 1852 to 1854. An Anglican mission was established and which still survives as the town's St. John the Evangelist Anglican parish church.
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