Official Name: | Strasbourg |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan#Canada |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Strasbourg in Saskatchewan |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 255px |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type2: | Rural municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | McKillop No. 220 |
Government Type: | Mayor & council |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Kelvin Schapansky |
Leader Title1: | Administrator |
Leader Name1: | Jennifer Josephson |
Leader Title2: | MP |
Leader Title3: | MLA |
Established Title: | Post office Founded |
Established Date: | 1905-10-16 |
Established Title2: | Village established |
Area Total Km2: | 5.70 |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 752 |
Population Density Km2: | 132.0 |
Timezone: | Central |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Coordinates: | 51.0703°N -104.9555°W |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0G 4V0 |
Area Code: | 306 |
Website: | Official website |
Footnotes: | [2] [3] |
Strasbourg is a town in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It is about northwest of the provincial capital, Regina.
The earliest settlers came to this area around 1884 as the area became known for its rich agricultural soil and ample land for pastures. The area was settled by German pioneers. The town was originally spelled Strassburg, Strass meaning road or street in German and burg meaning castle. The name was changed by Canada's Geography department to the French spelling of Strasbourg in 1919, following the renaming of the latter located in Alsace, France (Germany lost control of the city after World War I). The town was incorporated in 1907.
The Strasbourg Recreation Centre,[4] which was built in 1976, has an ice rink and a curling rink. It is home to the Strasbourg Maroons of the senior men's Highway Hockey League.[5] Strasbourg also has a 9-hole golf course[6] and ball diamonds.
Twenty-five kilometres to the south-west of town on Last Mountain Lake is Rowan's Ravine Provincial Park and to the north-east is Last Mountain.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Strasbourg had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 5.81km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[7]