Marcelin, Saskatchewan

{{Short description|Village in Saskatchewan, Canada}}

{{Other uses|Marcelin (disambiguation){{!}}Marcelin}}

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{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2023}}

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|subdivision_name1 = Saskatchewan

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|subdivision_name2 = Saskatchewan

|subdivision_type3 = Census division

|subdivision_name3 = 16

|subdivision_type4 = Rural Municipality

|subdivision_name4 = Blaine Lake No. 434

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|leader_title = Mayor

|leader_name = Norman Desjardins

|leader_title1 = Administrator

|leader_name1 = Leanne McCormick

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|leader_name2 = Marcelin Village Council

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|established_title = Post office Founded

|established_date = 1904

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|population_footnotes ={{cite web

| title = 2011 Community Profiles

| work = Statistics Canada

| publisher =Government of Canada

| url =http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/index.cfm?Lang=E

| access-date =2014-05-07}}

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|postal_code_type = Postal code

|postal_code = S0J 1R0

|area_code = 306

|blank_name = Highways

|blank_info = Highway 40
Highway 786

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|website = [http://marcelin.ca/Home/location.html Official website]

||footnotes = {{Cite web

|last=National Archives

|first=Archivia Net

|title=Post Offices and Postmasters

|url=http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/post-offices/001001-100.01-e.php

|access-date=2014-05-07

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061006045957/http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/post-offices/001001-100.01-e.php

|archive-date=2006-10-06

}}{{Cite web

|last=Government of Saskatchewan

|first=MRD Home

|title=Municipal Directory System

|url=http://www.mds.gov.sk.ca/apps/Pub/MDS/welcome.aspx

|access-date=2014-05-07

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160115125115/http://www.mds.gov.sk.ca/apps/Pub/MDS/welcome.aspx

|archive-date=2016-01-15

}}{{Cite web

|last=Commissioner of Canada Elections

|first=Chief Electoral Officer of Canada

|title=Elections Canada On-line

|year=2005

|url=http://www.elections.ca/home.asp

|access-date=2014-05-07

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070421084430/http://www.elections.ca/home.asp

|archive-date=2007-04-21

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Marcelin (2016 population: {{nts|153}}) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Blaine Lake No. 434 and Census Division No. 16. It was named after the first postmaster Antoine Marcelin in 1904.

Marcelin is the administrative headquarters of the Muskeg Lake Cree First Nations band government.{{cite web |title=Muskeg Lake Cree Nation |url=https://muskeglake.com/ |website=Muskeg Lake |publisher=Muskeg Lake Cree Nation Band No. 102 |access-date=16 December 2023}} During World War II, the Muskeg Lake reserve had the highest rates of Indigenous enlistment in the country, and Mary Greyeyes became the first First Nations woman to enlist in the Canadian Forces.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/invisiblewomenww0000poul|title=Invisible women : WWII Aboriginal servicewomen in Canada|author=Poulin, Grace|date=2007|publisher=D.G. Poulin|isbn=9780978458508|location=[Thunder Bay, Ont.]|oclc=271429730|url-access=registration}}