Bracken is a village

Village

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 in Lone Tree No. 18

Lone Tree No. 18, Saskatchewan

Lone Tree No.18 is a rural municipality in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, located in the south western part of the province near Bracken southwest of Swift Current in SARM Division No. 3.-Demographics:...

, Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....

, Canada

Canada

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. The population was 25 at the 2006 Canada Census

Bracken is named after John Bracken

John Bracken

John Bracken, PC was an agronomist, the 11th Premier of Manitoba and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada ....

, Premier

Premier

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 of Manitoba

Manitoba

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 and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

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, who was a professor at the University of Saskatchewan

University of Saskatchewan

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.

Demographics

In 2006, Bracken had a population of 25 living in 17 dwellings

House

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, a -28.6% decrease from 2001. The village had a land area of 0.6 km² (0.231661295155521 sq mi) and a population density

Population density

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 of 41.9 /km2.

Education

Students in Bracken are bused to Climax which has one school that covers Kindergarten

Kindergarten

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 through grade 12 in the Chinook School Division. Enrollment for 2006 was NA.

Attractions

• Grasslands National Park
  Grasslands National Park
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  , one of Canada's newer national parks and is located in southern Saskatchewan along the Montana
  Montana
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   border
  Border
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  .

• Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park
  Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park
  Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park is an interprovincial park straddling the southern Alberta-Saskatchewan border, located southeast of Medicine Hat...
  
  , an interprovincial park straddling the southern Alberta
  Alberta
  Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...
  
  -Saskatchewan border, located southeast of Medicine Hat
  Medicine Hat, Alberta
  Medicine Hat, known to locals as "The Hat", is a city of 61,097 people located in the southeastern part of the province of Alberta, Canada. It is enclaved within Cypress County along with the nearby Town of Redcliff, although neither is part of the county....
  
  . It is Canada's only interprovincial park.

External links

• Municipal Affairs - Bracken, Saskatchewan