Bracken, Saskatchewan

Bracken
Bracken
	Village
	Village of Bracken
	Looking down railway tracks towards the grain elevator in Bracken.
	Location of Bracken in Saskatchewan Bracken, Saskatchewan (Canada)
	Coordinates: 49°10′41″N 108°05′46″W / 49.178°N 108.096°W
Country	Canada
Province	Saskatchewan
Region	Southwest
Census division	4
Rural Municipality	Lone Tree
Government
• Type	Municipal
• Governing body	Bracken Village Council
• Mayor	Susan Wiens
• Administrator	Monique Fehr
• MP	David L. Anderson
• MLA	Wayne Elhard
Area
• Total	0.60 km2 (0.23 sq mi)
Population (2016)
• Total	25
• Density	33.5/km2 (87/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-6 (CST)
Postal code	S0N 0G0
Area code(s)	306
Highways	Hwy 18
Railway	Great Western Railway

Bracken (2016 Population 20) is a village within the Rural Municipality of Lone Tree No. 18, in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. The village is named after John Bracken, Premier of Manitoba and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, who was a professor at the University of Saskatchewan. The village is located approximately 115 km south of the city of Swift Current on Highway 18, directly north of Grasslands National Park, and approximately 20 km north of the Montana-Saskatchewan border. The village had a population of 20 in the 2016 Canada Census, (a -33.3% decrease from 30 in the 2011 Canada Census).

Demographics

Canada census – Bracken, Saskatchewan community profile
	2016	2011	2006
Population:	20 (-33.3% from 2011)	30 (+ 20.0% from 2006)	25 (-23.6% from 2001)
Land area:	0.60 km² (0.23 sq mi)	0.60 km² (0.23 sq mi)	0.60 km² (0.23 sq mi)
Population density:	33.5/km² (87/sq mi)	50.3/km² (130/sq mi)	41.9/km² (109/sq mi)
Median age:
Total private dwellings:	13	13	17
Median household income:
References: 2016^[1] 2011^[2] 2006^[3] earlier^[4]

Students in Bracken are bused to Frontier, which has a school that covers Kindergarten through grade 12 in the Chinook School Division.

Grasslands National Park, one of Canada's newer national parks and is located in southern Saskatchewan along the Montana border.
Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, an interprovincial park straddling the southern Alberta-Saskatchewan border, located southeast of Medicine Hat. It is Canada's only interprovincial park.

↑ "2016 Community Profiles". Canada 2016 Census. Statistics Canada. February 21, 2017.
↑ "2011 Community Profiles". Canada 2011 Census. Statistics Canada. July 5, 2013. Retrieved 2011-02-24.
↑ "2006 Community Profiles". Canada 2006 Census. Statistics Canada. March 30, 2011. Retrieved 2009-02-24.
↑ "2001 Community Profiles". Canada 2001 Census. Statistics Canada. February 17, 2012.

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