List of resort villages in Saskatchewan

A resort village is a type of incorporated urban municipality in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.^[1] A resort village is created from an organized hamlet by the Minister of Municipal Affairs by ministerial order via section 51 of The Municipalities Act if the community has:

been an organized hamlet for three or more years;
a population of 100 or more;
50 or more dwellings or businesses; and
a taxable assessment base that meets a prescribed minimum.^[2]

Saskatchewan has 40 resort villages^[1] that had a cumulative population of 4,118 and an average population of 103 in the 2011 Census.^[3]^[4] Saskatchewan's largest and smallest resort villages are Candle Lake and the Lumsden Beach with populations of 765 and 10 respectively.^[3]^[4]

A resort village council may request the Minister of Municipal Affairs to change its status to a town if the resort village has a population of 500 or more.^[2]

List

Name	Rural municipality (RM)^[5]	Population (2011)^[3]	Population (2006)^[3]	Change (%)^[3]	Land area (km²)^[3]	Population density (per km²)^[3]
Alice Beach	Sarnia No. 221	45	68	−33.8	0.71	63.7
Aquadeo	Meota No. 468	84	123	−31.7	0.74	113.3
Beaver Flat	Excelsior No. 166	40	58	−31	0.92	43.6
Big Shell	Spiritwood No. 496	45	45	0	1.02	44.3
Bird's Point	Fertile Belt No. 183	103	88	17	0.58	177.4
B-Say-Tah	North Qu'Appelle No. 187	187	206	−9.2	1.33	140.3
Candle Lake	Paddockwood No. 520	765	792	−3.4	63.32	12.1
Chitek Lake	Big River No. 555	167	219	−23.7	2.54	65.9
Chorney Beach	Foam Lake No. 276	15	36	−58.3	0.17	89.4
Cochin	Meota No. 468	122	208	−41.3	1.35	90.6
Coteau Beach	Coteau No. 255	40	30	33.3	0.54	74.2
Echo Bay	Spiritwood No. 496	38	77	−50.6	0.8	47.7
Etters Beach	Big Arm No. 251	30	15	100	0.12	253.4
Fort San	North Qu'Appelle No. 187	187	215	−13	2.9	64.6
Glen Harbour	McKillop No. 220	65	73	−11	0.35	185.8
Grandview Beach	Sarnia No. 221	25	35	−28.6	0.25	98.6
Greig Lake	Meadow Lake No. 588	23	20	15	0.14	163.2
Island View	McKillop No. 220	65	88	−26.1	0.43	150.2
Kannata Valley	Longlaketon No. 219	101	133	−24.1	0.63	159.6
Katepwa	Abernethy No. 186	403	285	41.4	5.78	69.7
Kivimaa-Moonlight Bay	Mervin No. 499	84	126	−33.3	0.55	154
Leslie Beach	Foam Lake No. 276	23	30	−23.3	0.56	41.1
Lumsden Beach	Lumsden No. 189	10^[4]	40	−75.0	0.47	21.3
Manitou Beach	Morris No. 312	257	233	10.3	3.09	83.1
Melville Beach	Grayson No. 184	27^[4]	41	−34.1	0.21	128.6
Metinota	Meota No. 468	89	89	0	0.52	170
Mistusinne	Maple Bush No. 224	66	56	17.9	1.49	44.3
North Grove	Dufferin No. 190	49^[4]	68	−27.9	1.03	47.8
Pebble Baye	Leask No. 464	33	27	22.2	0.74	44.4
Pelican Pointe	McKillop No. 220	15	23	−34.8	0.12	125.2
Saskatchewan Beach	McKillop No. 220	213	155	37.4	1.57	135.5
Shields	Dundurn No. 314	220	172	27.9	0.72	304.5
South Lake	Marquis No. 191	48	105	−54.3	1.15	41.9
Sun Valley	Marquis No. 191	80^[4]	128	−37.5	2.33	34.3
Sunset Cove	McKillop No. 220	25	26	−3.8	0.17	148.4
Thode	Dundurn No. 314	157	156	0.6	0.73	214.2
Tobin Lake	Moose Range No. 486	90	87	3.4	1.81	49.6
Wakaw Lake	Hoodoo No. 401	30	35	−14.3	0.59	50.9
Wee Too Beach	Sarnia No. 221	35	60	−41.7	0.17	207.8
West End	Fertile Belt No. 183	17	26	−34.6	0.34	50.4
Total resort villages		4,118	4,497	−8.4	102.98	40.0