Official Name: | Quill Lake |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Motto: | Goose Capital of Saskatchewan |
Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan#Canada |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Name3: | 10 |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Lakeside |
Leader Title: | Deputy Mayor |
Leader Name: | Collin Holderness |
Leader Title1: | Acting Administrator |
Leader Name1: | Julie Marshall |
Leader Title2: | Councillors |
Leader Name2: | Jim Nicholls Vicky Kerns Neil Marshall Collin Holderness |
Established Title: | Post office |
Established Date: | 1904-02-01 |
Established Title2: | Incorporated (Village) |
Established Date2: | 1907 |
Established Title3: | Incorporated (Town) |
Population Blank1 Title: | National Population Rank (Out of 5,008) |
Timezone: | CST |
Coordinates: | 52.0667°N -104.25°W |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0A 3E0 |
Area Code: | 306 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank Info: | Highway 5 Highway 640 |
Blank1 Name: | Waterways |
Website: | https://quilllake.ca Village of Quill Lake Website |
Quill Lake (2016 population:) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Lakeside No. 338 and Census Division No. 10. It is 170 km east of Saskatoon and 200 km northeast of Regina.
The village is located just to the northwest of the Quill Lakes. The Quill Lakes wetland complex is a designated Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network site where many migrating shorebirds stop during long migrations. Because of this the village is also known by its residents as the "Goose Capital of Saskatchewan".
Quill Lake was originally established as Lally, named after a railway official of the day. Later it was renamed Quill Lake to conform to the name of the post office. The community was built around the site which was originally the location of a log school house. Quill Lake incorporated as a village on December 8, 1906.[1]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Quill Lake had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 1.32km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[3]
In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Quill Lake recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of 1.3km2, it had a population density of in 2016.[4]