Maryfield (2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Maryfield No. 91 and Census Division No. 1. The village lies south of the intersection of Highway 48 and Highway 600 and is about west of the Manitoba border. It is a junction point on the Canadian National Railway between the main line heading northwest towards Regina and a branch line heading southwest toward Carlyle and Lampman.
History John Young McNaught named his homestead after his sister, Mary; he donated land for a school in 1889, with the condition that the name be perpetuated. The name Maryfield was passed on to the post office, then the Canadian Pacific Railway station in 1906. Maryfield incorporated as a village on August 21, 1907.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Maryfield 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 Maryfield 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.
Climate
Notable people
Brock Lesnar, American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist, lives in Maryfield with his wife, fellow professional wrestler Sable Joel Laing, Canadian ice hockey player, born and raised in Maryfield Val Sweeting, Canadian curler, grew up in Maryfield
See also List of communities in Saskatchewan List of villages in Saskatchewan
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