Paddockwood, Saskatchewan


Paddockwood is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Paddockwood No. 520 and Census Division No. 15. It was named after the town Paddock Wood in Kent, England.
In the early 1900s Mr. Fred Pitts emigrated to the lumberland of Canada. From a log cabin he built there as a home, he set up a post office, collecting letters and parcels on horseback for residents of the settlement. He named the settlement Paddockwood after the village he had left in England.
Paddockwood was the home of the first Red Cross hospital in the British Empire, and was set up after the First World War.
Paddockwood is served by the Paddockwood Public Library as well as a nine-hole golf course, the Helbig's Forest Course. Paddockwood belongs to the Saskatchewan Provincial Constituency of Saskatchewan Rivers and the Federal Electoral District of Prince Albert.

History

Paddockwood incorporated as a village on January 1, 1949.

Demographics

In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Village of Paddockwood recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2016.
In the 2011 Census of Population, the Village of Paddockwood recorded a population of, a change from its 2006 population of. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2011.

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