Official Name: | Herbert |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Motto: | Have you seen Herbert? |
Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan#Canada |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Herbert in Saskatchewan |
Coordinates: | 50.4273°N -107.2278°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Name3: | 7 |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Morse |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Ron Mathies |
Leader Title1: | CAO |
Leader Name1: | Michelle Mackow |
Leader Title2: | Governing body |
Leader Name2: | Herbert Town Council |
Established Title: | Post office Founded |
Established Date: | 1904-10-01 |
Area Land Km2: | 3.78 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 856 |
Population Density Km2: | 200.7 |
Timezone: | CST |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0H 2A0 |
Area Code: | 306 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank Info: | Trans-Canada Highway, Highway 612 & Highway 645 |
Blank1 Name: | Railways |
Blank1 Info: | Canadian Pacific Railway |
Website: | Official website |
Footnotes: | [2] [3] |
Herbert is a town in the Rural Municipality of Morse No. 165, in southwest Saskatchewan, Canada. The community is 48 km east of the city of Swift Current, and 197 km west of Regina, the provincial capital, on the Trans-Canada Highway. Its population as of 2016 was 856.
Herbert was named after the British diplomat Sir Michael Henry Herbert. It is the hometown of CBC Sports broadcaster Don Wittman. Herbert was also the home of former senator Jack Wiebe.
The Herbert Train Station Museum is the best place to stop for information on the town of Herbert during the Summer. The train station is located on 625 Railway Avenue. Spring Fall & Winter Town Hall is best.[4] The Klassen Museum (c. 1916) was a Municipal Heritage Property on the Canadian Register of Historic Places.[5]
Herbert School offers kindergarten to grade 12 and is in the Chinook School Division 211
Herbert has a skating rink and a curling rink, a swimming pool, a number of ball diamonds, and a gym within the school. Herbert is also home to the Herbert Stampede, a Canadian Cowboys Association approved Rodeo. Herbert Stampede was the CCA's 2008 and 2014 Rodeo of the year. The Herbert Stampede also features the very popular Wild Cow Race and The Wild West Parade.[6]
Herbert also has a Highway Inn Restaurant, CO-OP store, a pharmacy, a hospital/nursing home, a senior home, a public library, thrift store, a car wash, and a post office.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Herbert had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 3.69km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[7]