Speers, Saskatchewan


Speers is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Douglas No. 436 and Census Division No. 16. The village is located approximately 50 minutes southeast of the City of North Battleford on Highway 40.
The community is named for Charles Wesley Speers, the colonization agent for Western Canada, who came from Eastern Canada to settle at Griswold, Manitoba, in 1884.

History

Speers incorporated as a village on December 24, 1915.

Demographics

In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Village of Speers 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.
In the 2011 Census of Population, the Village of Speers recorded a population of, a change from its 2006 population of. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2011.