Minton (2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Surprise Valley No. 9 and Census Division No. 2. It is on Highway 6 just north of its intersection with Highway 18, about 19 km north of the Raymond-Regway Border Crossing on the Montana-Saskatchewan border. The village was named after Minton, Shropshire in England. The name was given by the Canadian Pacific Railway.

History

Minton incorporated as a village on January 1, 1951.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Minton had a population of 50 living in 28 of its 39 total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of 55. With a land area of 0.25 km2, it had a population density of in 2021. In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Minton recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a NaN% change from its 2011 population of. With a land area of 0.3 km2, it had a population density of in 2016.

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