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Rural Municipality of Enfield No. 194

rural municipality in Saskatchewan, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ5377311 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Rural Municipality of Enfield No. 194 (2016 population: 226) is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within Census Division No. 7 and SARM Division No. 2.

History

The RM of Enfield No. 194 incorporated as a rural municipality on December 13, 1909.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the RM of Enfield No. 194 had a population of 268 living in 106 of its 116 total private dwellings, a change of 18.6% from its 2016 population of 226. With a land area of 1,003.93 km2 (387.62 sq mi), it had a population density of 0.3/km2 (0.7/sq mi) in 2021.

In the 2016 Census of Population, the RM of Enfield No.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Rural Municipality of Enfield No. 194” is rural municipality in Saskatchewan, Canada. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Rural, Municipality and Enfield, 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, 1909, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Rural, Municipality and Enfield 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

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5377311. Authority coordinates are 50.717, -106.666. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016, 1909 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rural Municipality of Enfield No. 194” 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.