Orkney, Saskatchewan

Orkney, Saskatchewan
Unincorporated community
Orkney School and ex. Patterson elevator in background.
Location of Orkney in Saskatchewan
Coordinates: 49°08′00″N 107°55′02″W / 49.1333°N 107.9172°W
Country	Canada
Province	Saskatchewan
Region	Saskatchewan
Census division	No. 4
Rural Municipality	Val Marie
Government
• Governing body	Val Marie No. 17
• MP	David L. Anderson
• MLA	Wayne Elhard
Area
• Total	0.93 km^2 (0.36 sq mi)
Population (2010)
• Total	13
Time zone	CST
Postal code	S0N 1V0
Area code(s)	306
Highways	Highway 18

Orkney is an unincorporated community in Val Marie No. 17, Saskatchewan, Canada. The population was 13 at the 2001 Canada Census.

Demographics

Education

Frontier and Val Marie each have one school that covers Kindergarten through grade 12 in the Chinook School Division.

Attractions

• Frontier & District Golf Course, a 9-hole facility located in Frontier, it also features all the hallmarks of Saskatchewan golf.
• Grasslands National Park, one of Canada's newer national parks and is located in southern Saskatchewan along the Montana border.
• Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, an interprovincial park straddling the southern Alberta-Saskatchewan border, located southeast of Medicine Hat. It is Canada's only interprovincial park.

See also

• List of communities in Saskatchewan

References

1. "2001 Community Profiles". Canada 2001 Census. Statistics Canada. February 17, 2012.

Coordinates: 49°08′00″N 107°55′02″W / 49.13333°N 107.91722°W