Unity | |
|---|---|
Town | |
| Town of Unity | |
| Motto: A good town in a good district | |
  Unity Location of Unity in Saskatchewan  Unity Unity (Canada) | |
| Coordinates: 52°26′0″N 109°10′0″W / 52.43333°N 109.16667°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Saskatchewan |
| Post office Founded | 1909-04-01 |
| Village established | 1909-06-01 |
| Town incorporated | 1909-11-01 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Sharon Del Frari |
| • Federal Electoral District Battlefords—Lloydminster MP | Rosemarie Falk |
| • Provincial Constituency Cut Knife-Turtleford MLA | Ryan Domotor |
| Area | |
| • Land | 9.77 km2 (3.77 sq mi) |
| Population (2016) | |
• Total | 2,573 |
| • Density | 244.6/km2 (634/sq mi) |
| • Summer (DST) | CST |
| Postal Code | S0K 4L0 |
| Area code | 306-228/210 |
| Highways |   Highway 14 / Highway 21 |
| Website | Official Website |
| [1][2][3][4] | |
Unity is a town in the western part of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan[5] with a population of 2573. Unity is located at the intersection of Highway 14 and Highway 21, and the intersection of the CNR and CPR main rail lines. Unity is located 200 kilometres (125 mi) west-northwest of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and 375 kilometres (235 mi) southeast of Edmonton, Alberta. The town of Wilkie is located 33 kilometres (21 mi) to the east.
The town was the subject of playwright Kevin Kerr's Governor General's Award-winning play Unity (1918), which dramatizes the effect of the 1918 flu pandemic on Unity.
- ^ National Archives, Archivia Net, Post Offices and Postmasters, archived from the original on 6 October 2006
- ^ Government of Saskatchewan, MRD Home, Municipal Directory System, archived from the original on 15 January 2016, retrieved 30 April 2013
- ^ Canadian Textiles Institute. (2005), CTI Determine your provincial constituency, archived from the original on 11 September 2007
- ^ Commissioner of Canada Elections, Chief Electoral Officer of Canada (2005), Elections Canada On-line, archived from the original on 21 April 2007
- ^ Adamson, J; et al. (23 July 2007), Online Historical Map Digitization Project