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Aneroid (2006 population 45) is a village in southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada, approximately 70 km southeast of Swift Current.
[edit] Demographics
According to the Canada 2006 Census[6]:
| • Population: |
45 (-19.6% from 2001) |
| • Land area: |
1.05 km² (0.41 sq mi) |
| • Population density: |
42.8 inhabitants per square kilometre (111 /sq mi) |
| • National population rank (Out of 5,008): |
Ranked 4,677th |
| • Median age: |
45.0 (males: 35.0, females: 49.0) |
| • Total private dwellings: |
32 |
| • Dwellings occupied by permanent residents: |
20 |
| • Mean household income: |
$Not Available |
[edit] Origin of the name
The most popular version of the origin of the name is that the first survey party lost its aneroid barometer on the present townsite.[7] Many of the streets in the village are named after surveyor's instruments.[7]
[edit] Notable Residents
Patrick Marleau, centre for the NHL team San Jose Sharks.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Aneroid Village Council http://www.municipal.gov.sk.ca/apps/Pub/MDS/muniDetails.aspx?cat=3&mun=1831
- ^ National Archives, Archivia Net, Post Offices and Postmasters, <http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/post-offices/001001-100.01-e.php>
- ^ Government of Saskatchewan, MRD Home, Municipal Directory System, <http://www.municipal.gov.sk.ca/index.html>
- ^ Canadian Textiles Institute., CTI Determine your provincial constituency, <http://www.textiles.ca/eng/nonAuthProg/redirect.cfm?path=IssPolContacts§ionID=7601.cfm>
- ^ Commissioner of Canada Elections, Chief Electoral Officer of Canada, Elections Canada On-line, <http://www.elections.ca/home.asp>
- ^ 2006 Community Profile
- ^ a b Aneroid, The Rising Barometer, 1905-80, p. 1 (1980) Aneroid History Book Committee.
[edit] External links
[edit] Footnotes
Coordinates: 49°40′59″N 107°17′42″W / 49.683, -107.295
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