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Rural Municipality of Fox Valley No. 171

rural municipality in Saskatchewan, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ5477037 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Rural Municipality of Fox Valley No. 171 (2016 population: 330) is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within Census Division No. 8 and SARM Division No. 3.

History

The RM of Keebleville No. 171 was originally incorporated as a rural municipality on October 29, 1913. Its name was changed to the RM of Fox Valley No. 171 on November 27, 1926.

Geography

Communities and localities

The following urban municipalities are surrounded by the RM.

Villages

Fox Valley, Saskatchewan

The following unincorporated communities are within the RM.

Localities

Inglebright, Saskatchewan

Linacre, Saskatchewan

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the RM of Fox Valley No. 171 had a population of 344 living in 76 of its 91 total private dwellings, a change of 4.2% from its 2016 population of 330.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Rural Municipality of Fox Valley No. 171” is rural municipality in Saskatchewan, Canada. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Rural, Municipality and Valley, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 1913, 1926, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Rural, Municipality and Valley is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “rural municipality in Saskatchewan, Canada” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5477037. Authority coordinates are 50.466, -109.431. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016, 1913, 1926 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rural Municipality of Fox Valley No. 171” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.