Zelma, Saskatchewan


Zelma is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Morris No. 312 and Census Division No. 11. The village is located along Saskatchewan Highway 763.

History

Zelma incorporated as a village on August 10, 1910.
The Zelma Church was building in 1909 with a load of $500 for lumber and volunteer labour; initially as a Presbyterian Church, it was reorganised in 1917 as the Zelma United Church.
Until 1912, students were required to attend school in the neighboring communities of Stonemount or Golden Wheat due to reluctance of many of the farmers in the area to vote in favor of spending tax money on a school; in 1912 the school district was established, originally using the church for classes until a one-room school house was constructed in 1925. The school closed in 1969, with students bussed to Young.
During the early years following the establishment of Zelma, the village had a thriving business community with a general store, lumber yards, a hotel, bakery, flour mill and grain elevators; most of these business had disappeared by the end of the 1940s.

Demographics

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