Windthorst (2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Chester No. 125 and Census Division No. 5. It is accessed from Highway 48.
History Windthorst incorporated as a village on August 21, 1907.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Windthorst had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Windthorst 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.
Sports The Kipling/Winthorst Oil Kings of the senior men's Big 6 Hockey League play in the local ice rink.Big 6 Hockey League
Notable people Edwin Roy Kinch was born in Windthorst in 1918. He was a Catholic priest member of the Order of Servants of Mary. From 1962 to 1970, he was the apostolic prefect of the Apostolic Prefecture of Ingwavuma in South Africa.
See also List of villages in Saskatchewan List of communities in Saskatchewan
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