Kindersley, Saskatchewan
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Aerial view of Kindersley, Saskatchewan
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| Nickname(s): The Hub of West Central Saskatchewan | ||
| Motto: "Experience Our Energy" | ||
 Kindersley
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| Coordinates: 51°28′04″N 109°09′24″W / 51.46778°N 109.15667°WCoordinates: 51°28′04″N 109°09′24″W / 51.46778°N 109.15667°W | ||
| Country | Canada | |
| Province | Saskatchewan | |
| Census division | Division No. 13 | |
| Rural Municipality | RM No. 290 Kindersley | |
| Incorporated Town | 1910 | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | John Enns-Wind | |
| • Governing body | Kindersley Town Council | |
| • MLA | Bill Boyd | |
| • MP | David Anderson | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 13.23 km2 (5.11 sq mi) | |
| Population (2016) | ||
| • Total | 4,571 | |
| • Density | 350/km2 (890/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CST (UTC-6) | |
| Postal Code | S0L 1S0 | |
| Area code(s) | 306 | |
| Highways |
  Hwy 7 / Hwy 21
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| Website | www |
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| ^1 Source: Canada 2016 Census | ||
Kindersley is a town in west central Saskatchewan, Canada, located at Section 10, Township 29, Range 23, West of the 3rd Meridian, along highway 7, a primary highway linking Calgary, Alberta and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. It is an established industrial base for the resource-rich west central region of the province and a service center hub to the oil and gas industry and agriculture production.
The Bakken shale oil and gas boom underway since 2009, driven by hydraulic fracturing technologies, has contributed to record growth, high employment rates and increase in population, in the province of Saskatchewan. Hydraulic fracturing has benefited small towns like Kindersley which saw its population increase to over 5,000 with the boom. Kindersley sells its treated municipal wastewater to a local oilfield service company to use in hydraulic fracturing. As the price of oil dropped dramatically in late 2014 partially in response to the shale oil boom, towns like Kinderslely are more vulnerable.
Kindersley is a growing community of almost 5,000 people. It was incorporated in 1910, and named after Sir Robert Kindersley, a major shareholder in the Canadian Northern Railway (later merged into Canadian National Railways). The town is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Kindersley No. 290.
Tourism Saskatchewan's Saskatchewan Discovery Guide 2010 claims a higher current population of 4,966 for the town and the Ministry of Health Covered Population gave Kindersley a population of 5,273 in 2010. However, these stats are in contradiction to the 2011 census data. In Saskatchewan towns may apply for city charters once they exceed 5,000 in population, and Kindersley unsuccessfully applied for such a charter in the early 2000s.
In recent years, Tim Horton's and Wal-Mart have joined Kindersley's diverse business sector. With its population of about 5,000, and with no other major centres nearby, Kindersley is one of the smallest non-suburban communities (in terms of population) in Canada, and the smallest in Saskatchewan, to have a Wal-Mart. As of 2010, the Wal-Mart is the only department store in the town, as the Zellers location in Kindersley Mall closed down a few years before. The aforementioned Zellers has been replaced by a Home Hardware store.
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