Balgonie

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|leader_name = Lain Lovelace

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|leader_name1 = Karen Craigie

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Balgonie is a town in southeast Saskatchewan, Canada. Situated at the intersection of Highways 10, 46, and the Trans-Canada Highway, the town is part of the White Butte region and neighbours Pilot Butte, White City, and McLean. As well, it is located 25 kilometres east of the province's capital city, Regina. As of the 2016 census, Balgonie had a population of 1,765, an 8.3% growth from 2011.{{cite web|title=Population of census metropolitan areas|url=http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/demo05a-eng.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161216151031/http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/demo05a-eng.htm|archive-date=16 December 2016|access-date=9 August 2015|work=Statistics Canada|date=26 February 2014 }} The town is governed by the Balgonie Town Council and is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Edenwold No. 158.{{Cite web|last=The Canadian Encyclopedia|author-link=The Canadian Encyclopedia|title=Balgonie|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/pilot-butte|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131130045736/http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/pilot-butte|archive-date=2013-11-30|url-status=dead|access-date=2013-11-26}} Balgonie is located in Treaty 4 territory.

Balgonie has a Subway restaurant, two gas stations, an outdoor pool, and an ice arena. It is also home to Greenall School.

History

Balgonie was named for Balgonie Castle in Scotland. In 1882, the first train ran through the area on the Canadian Pacific Railway, and a post office was established in 1883.{{cite book |last=McLennan |first=David |url=http://www.cprc.uregina.ca |title=Our Town: Saskatchewan Communities from Abbey to Zenon Park |publisher=Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-88977-209-0 |location=Regina, Saskatchewan |pages=19–20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100410171540/http://www.cprc.uregina.ca/ |archive-date=2010-04-10 |url-status=dead}} In 1884, Sir John Lister Kaye established a model farm near the railway in Balgonie, with the town being the easternmost point of the old 76 Ranch lands.{{Cite book |last=Poirier |first=Thelma |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/973044175 |title=The Grasslanders : ranch stories from Grasslands National Park |date=2017 |isbn=978-1-55050-923-6 |location=Regina, Saskatchewan |oclc=973044175}}

A school was built in 1891, and Balgonie was incorporated as a village in 1903 and as a town in 1907.

One of Balgonie's most famous residents was William Wallace Gibson (1876–1965), who created the first Canadian-built airplane. Gibson successfully flew his airplane in Victoria in 1910.{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/ww-gibson/ |title=William Wallace Gibson |access-date=2010-05-26 |last=Phillipson |first=Donald J. C. |year=2010 |encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |publisher=Historica-Dominion |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607151411/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0003251 |archive-date=2011-06-07 }} Gibson was the subject of the 1991 stop-motion animated short The Balgonie Birdman, directed by Brian Duchscherer and produced by the National Film Board of Canada.{{cite video | url=http://www.nfb.ca/film/balgonie_birdman/ | title=The Balgonie Birdman | publisher=National Film Board of Canada | date=December 28, 1991 | people=Brian Duchscherer (director) | medium=Stop-motion animated film}}

The town's population plummeted during the 1930s and 1940s, but the completion of the Trans-Canada Highway in the late 1950s brought new growth.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Balgonie had a population of {{val|1756|fmt=commas}} living in {{val|621|fmt=commas}} of its {{val|628|fmt=commas}} total private dwellings, a change of {{percentage|{{#expr:1756-1765}}|1765|1}} from its 2016 population of {{val|1765|fmt=commas}}. With a land area of {{convert|4.76|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|1756|4.76|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2021.{{cite web | url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810000203&geocode=A000247 | title=Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions (municipalities), Saskatchewan | publisher=Statistics Canada | date=February 9, 2022 | accessdate=April 1, 2022}}

{{canada census

|location = Balgonie

|2021_population=1,756 | 2021_pop_delta=-0.5 | 2021_land_area=4.76 | 2021_pop_density=369.2

|2021_median_age=36.8 | 2021_median_age_m=36.4 | 2021_median_age_f=37.2

|2021_total_pvt_dwell=628 |2021_occ_pvt_dwell=621 |2021_mean_hh_income=122,000

|2021_geocode=2021A00054706032 | 2021_access_date=2023-10-19

|2011_population=1,625

|2011_pop_delta=+17.4

|2011_land_area=3.15

|2011_pop_density=515.8

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|2011_median_age=33.3

|2011_median_age_m=32.6

|2011_median_age_f=34.3

|2011_total_pvt_dwell=574

|2011_total_pvt_dwell_usual=543

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|2011_access_date=2014-03-11

|2006_population=1,384

|2006_pop_delta=+11.7

|2006_land_area=3.15

|2006_pop_density=439.3

|2006_pop_rank=1,684th

|2006_median_age=32.5

|2006_median_age_m=32.5

|2006_median_age_f=32.5

|2006_total_pvt_dwell=474

|2006_total_pvt_dwell_usual=469

|2006_mean_hh_income=57,544

|2006_access_date=2009-02-24

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References

External links

{{Official website|http://www.townofbalgonie.ca/}}

{{Geographic location

| Northwest = Zehner

| North = Edenwold

| Northeast = Edgeley

| West = Pilot Butte

| Centre = Balgonie

| East = St. Joseph's

| Southwest = Emerald Park

| South = White City

| Southeast = Davin

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Category:Edenwold No. 158, Saskatchewan

Category:Towns in Saskatchewan

Category:Division No. 6, Saskatchewan

Balgonie

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