Kindersley, Saskatchewan
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Kindersley is a town in west central Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, located at Section 10, Township 29, Range 23, West of the 3rd Meridian
106th meridian west
The meridian 106° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....
, along highway 7, a primary highway linking Calgary, Alberta and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. It is an established industrial base for the resource-rich west central region of the province and a service center hub to the oil and gas industry and agriculture production.
History
Kindersley is a growing community of almost 5,000 people. It was incorporated in 1910, and named after Sir Robert Kindersley, a major shareholder in the Canadian Northern RailwayCanadian Northern Railway
The Canadian Northern Railway is a historic Canadian transcontinental railway. At its demise in 1923, when it was merged into the Canadian National Railway , the CNoR owned a main line between Quebec City and Vancouver via Ottawa, Winnipeg, and Edmonton.-Manitoba beginnings:CNoR had its start in...
(later merged into Canadian National Railways). The town is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Kindersley No. 290
Kindersley No. 290, Saskatchewan
Kindersley No. 290 is a rural municipality in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, located in the western part of the province in SARM Division No...
.
Events
Annual events in Kindersley include the Indoor Rodeo and Trade Show in June and the four-day Goose Festival in September, among numerous sports and cultural activities throughout the rest of the year. Kindersley was chosen as the launch site for the da Vinci ProjectDa Vinci Project
The da Vinci Project was a privately funded, volunteer-staffed attempt to launch a reusable manned suborbital spacecraft. It was formed in 1996 specifically to be a contender for the Ansari X PRIZE for the first non-governmental reusable manned spacecraft. The project was based in Toronto,...
, Canada's entry to win the Ansari X Prize
Ansari X Prize
The Ansari X Prize was a space competition in which the X Prize Foundation offered a US$10,000,000 prize for the first non-government organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks...
. The flight was scheduled for October 2004, but circumstances related to the project prevented the flight from taking place. Kindersley is celebrating its 100th birthday in 2010. The official centennial celebrations will take place from July 21–25.
Education
Kindersley has three schools, all operating within the Sun West School DivisionSun West School Division
Located in west-central Saskatchewan, the Sun West School Division covers approximately 25,600 square kilometers. On its east side, the Division includes schools in Davidson and Kenaston, whose attendance areas include students on the east side of Highway 11. The Alberta border serves as the...
. Westberry and Elizabeth are K-7 schools and the Kindersley Composite School is 8-12. There is also a regional college at the Great Plains Regional College location.
Sports
Kindersley is home to a full-service 9-hole golf course; two world class, fully irrigated baseball diamonds; a .3 mile, tri-oval speedway and the West Central Events Center (WCEC), currently with one ice surface and a curling rink. The WCEC is home to the local SJHL KlippersKindersley Klippers
The Kindersley Klippers are a Junior "A" team based out of Kindersley, Saskatchewan, Canada. They play out of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League. They play at the West Central Events Centre with a capacity of about 1700 people.-History:...
hockey team. Part of the WCEC, an older arena called Exhibition Stadium, was destroyed by fire on January 8, 2010.
Kindersley has also hosted many sporting events including the 1984 World Youth Baseball Championships, 1990 Men's Provincial Curling Championship, 1994 Saskatchewan Winter Games, 1997 Canadian Mixed Curling Championships, 2001 Men's Provincial Curling Championships, 2007 Provincial Mixed Curling Championships, 2008 Junior Men's and Women's Provincial Curling Championships, 2009 and 2010 Baseball Canada Cup and the 2010 Provincial Scotties Tournament of Hearts (the tournament was moved to Eston
Eston, Saskatchewan
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because of the fire on January 8, 2010). The arena also hosted Team Canada's World Juniors for the 1991 World Junior Championships in Saskatoon. They used the rink as a practice facility and it was also the venue for a game between Czechoslovakia and Switzerland.
Business
In recent years, Tim Horton's and Wal-MartWal-Mart
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. , branded as Walmart since 2008 and Wal-Mart before then, is an American public multinational corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company is the world's 18th largest public corporation, according to the Forbes Global 2000...
have joined Kindersley's diverse business sector. With its population of about 5,000, and with no other major centres nearby, Kindersley is one of the smallest non-suburban communities (in terms of population) in Canada, and the smallest in Saskatchewan, to have its own Wal-Mart. As of 2010, the Wal-Mart is the only department store in the town, as the Zellers
Zellers
Zellers Inc. is Canada's second-largest chain of mass merchandise discount stores, with locations in communities across Canada. A subsidiary of the Hudson's Bay Company , it has 273 locations across the country....
location in Kindersley Mall
Kindersley Mall
Kindersley Mall is the only enclosed shopping centre located in the city of Kindersley, Saskatchewan, Canada. The mall consists of 15 stores and services archored by Extra Foods and Canadian Tire. The space in the mall that was previously occupied by Zellers is sometimes used for special events....
closed down a few years before.
Media
Local media includes The Kindersley Clarion, a weekly newspaper owned by Jamac Publishing Ltd., and two radio stations owned by Golden West Radio: CKVX Mix 104.9 FM and CFYM Classic Hits 1210 AM.Climate
Kindersley experiences a semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classificationKöppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by Crimea German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen himself, notably in 1918 and 1936...
BSk). Winters are long, cold and dry, while summers are short and warm. Precipitation is low, with an annual average of 328mm, and is heavily concentrated in the warmer months.
The coldest temperature ever recorded in Kindersley was −43.4° (−46°F) on February 7, 1994. The hottest was 40.0° (104°F) on August 16, 2003.
The record one-day rainfall is 77.2 mm (3 inches) on July 6, 1991. The record one-day snowfall is 21 cm (8.3 inches) on December 27, 1990.
Statistics
Tourism Saskatchewan's Saskatchewan Discovery Guide 2010 claims a higher current population of 4,966 for the town and the Ministry of Health Covered Population gave Kindersley a population of 5,273 in 2010. In Saskatchewan towns may apply for city charters once they exceed 5,000 in population, and Kindersley unsuccessfully applied for such a charter in the early 2000s.Notable people
- Bill Baker—Canadian football
- Derek DorsettDerek DorsettDerek Dorsett is a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League.-Playing career:...
—ice hockey - John-James FordJohn-James FordJohn-James Ford is a Canadian poet and fiction writer.Born in Kindersley, Saskatchewan, Ford studied at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, New Brunswick...
—writer - Curtis GlencrossCurtis GlencrossCurtis Jack Glencross is a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League . Undrafted by any team, he signed with the Anaheim Mighty Ducks as a free agent in 2004 and made his NHL debut with the team in 2007...
—ice hockey - Glenda Goertzen—author
- Gordon HahnGordon HahnGordon R. Hahn was a member of the Los Angeles City Council and California State Assembly in the mid-20th Century.While on the council, he cast the decisive vote that brought the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles and was instrumental in the appointment of Gilbert Lindsay, who became the first...
(1919–2001)—California politician, born in Kindersley - Dave LewisDave Lewis (hockey)David Rodney Lewis is a former National Hockey League defenceman and coach. He is currently an assistant coach of the Carolina Hurricanes and head coach of the Ukraine men's national ice hockey team...
—National Hockey League coach - Greg PaslawskiGreg PaslawskiGregory Stephen "Mud" Paslawski is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played eleven seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens, St...
— ice hockey
External links
- Town of Kindersley website
- Kindersley Gen Web Region
- Map of Kindersley at Statcan
- Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan