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Macoun
Village
Macoun, Saskatchewan
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Coordinates: 49°17′35″N 103°16′44″W / 49.293°N 103.279°W / 49.293; -103.279
Country	Canada
Province	Saskatchewan
Region	Saskatchewan
Census division	2
Rural Municipality	Cymri No. 36
Post office Founded	1903-09-01
Government
• Mayor	Suzanne Kuchinka
• Administrator	Carmen Dodd-Vicary
• Governing body	Macoun Village Council
Area
• Total	1.68 km (0.65 sq mi)
Population
• Total	246
• Density	146.1/km (378/sq mi)
Time zone	CST
Postal code	S0C 1P0
Area code	306
Highways	Highway 39

Macoun (2016 population: 269) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Cymri No. 36 and Census Division No. 2. The village is located 28 kilometres (17 mi) northwest of the city of Estevan on Highway 39.

History

After a Soo Line extension in 1898 linked more settled areas of North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota with the Canadian Pacific line, a section of land along the rail line became favoured by incoming land seekers, eventually being named Macoun on railway maps.

Macoun incorporated as a village on October 16, 1903. On April 20, 1914, an acetylene gas plant explosion in the cellar of the Macoun Hotel and the resulting fire caused 13 deaths. In the early 1900s acetylene was widely used for illumination.

The village is named for John Macoun, an Irish-born Canadian naturalist, botanist and explorer who studied the prairies on behalf of the Canadian government.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Macoun had a population of 272 living in 109 of its 118 total private dwellings, a change of 1.1% from its 2016 population of 269. With a land area of 1.7 km (0.66 sq mi), it had a population density of 160.0/km (414.4/sq mi) in 2021.

In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Macoun recorded a population of 269 living in 103 of its 119 total private dwellings, a 8.6% change from its 2011 population of 246. With a land area of 1.68 km (0.65 sq mi), it had a population density of 160.1/km (414.7/sq mi) in 2016.

Notable residents

Notable people from Macoun include:

• Lenard Gustafson, Canadian senator
• Kim Thorson, politician
• Gladys Arnold, Journalist

See also

• List of communities in Saskatchewan
• List of villages in Saskatchewan

References

1. Municipal Directory System
2. "2011 Community Profiles". Statistics Canada. Government of Canada. Retrieved August 15, 2014.
3. National Archives, Archivia Net. "Post Offices and Postmasters". Archived from the original on October 6, 2006. Retrieved August 15, 2014.
4. Government of Saskatchewan, MRD Home. "Municipal Directory System". Archived from the original on January 15, 2016. Retrieved August 15, 2014.
5. Canadian Textiles Institute. (2005), CTI Determine your provincial constituency, archived from the original on September 11, 2007
6. Commissioner of Canada Elections, Chief Electoral Officer of Canada (2005), Elections Canada On-line, archived from the original on April 21, 2007
7. "Discover Macoun". DiscoverEstevan. Retrieved October 9, 2024.
8. "Urban Municipality Incorporations". Saskatchewan Ministry of Government Relations. Archived from the original on October 15, 2014. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
9. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13394, 30 May 1914, Page 10. "HOTEL FIRE". Retrieved August 15, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
10. "John Macoun". www.craigavonhistoricalsociety.org.uk. Retrieved October 9, 2024.
11. "Saskatchewan Census Population" (PDF). Saskatchewan Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 24, 2015. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
12. "Saskatchewan Census Population". Saskatchewan Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
13. "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions (municipalities), Saskatchewan". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved April 1, 2022.
14. "Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data (Saskatchewan)". Statistics Canada. February 8, 2017. Retrieved May 30, 2020.

v t e Places adjacent to Macoun, Saskatchewan
Macoun

v t e Division No. 2, Saskatchewan
Cities	Weyburn
Towns	Bengough Midale Milestone Ogema Radville Yellow Grass
Villages	Avonlea Ceylon Creelman Fillmore Goodwater Halbrite Lang Macoun McTaggart Minton Osage Pangman Torquay
Rural municipalities	Bengough 40 Brokenshell 68 Caledonia 99 Cambria 6 Cymri 36 Elmsthorpe 100 Fillmore 96 The Gap 39 Griffin 66 Happy Valley 10 Key West 70 Lake Alma 8 Laurier 38 Lomond 37 Norton 69 Scott 98 Souris Valley 7 Surprise Valley 9 Wellington 97 Weyburn 67
First Nations	Piapot Cree
Indian reserves	Piapot Cree First Nation 75H
Unincorporated communities	Organized hamlets Beaubier Big Beaver Claybank North Weyburn Parry Trossachs Special service areas Griffin Lake Alma Tribune Hamlets Kayville Oungre Amulet Bethesda Blooming Bromhead Brooking Bures Cedoux Colfax Colgate Dahinda Dummer Edgeworth Forward Froude Gladmar Glasnevin Gravelbourg Junction Hardy Harptree Hoffer Horizon Key West Khedive Lewvan Marienthal Moreland Outram Querrin Rafferty Rainton Ralph Ratcliffe Ritchie Roncott Truax Tyvan Wallace
See also: Municipalities in Saskatchewan Census divisions of Saskatchewan Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities

49°17′35″N 103°16′44″W / 49.293°N 103.279°W / 49.293; -103.279

• Villages in Saskatchewan
• Cymri No. 36, Saskatchewan
• Division No. 2, Saskatchewan