Edgeley is a hamlet

Hamlet (place)

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 in the Canadian

Canada

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 province of Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan

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 and formerly, until the rationalisation of operations by the major Canadian grain-buying companies, the location of some half-dozen grain elevators. At the outset of settlement of this part of the Canadian prairies Edgeley was a centre of the Methodist Church of Canada

Methodist Church of Canada

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's Qu'Appelle

Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan

Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, is a small village and formerly in ecclesiastical terms a city, with considerable historic significance located on Trans-Canada Highway and the Canadian Pacific Railway mainline, some east of the provincial capital of Regina.Qu'Appelle was for a time the terminus of the...

-Edgeley Circuit, later, in 1925, absorbed into the United Church of Canada

United Church of Canada

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. Listed as a designated place

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 by Statistics Canada

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, the hamlet had a population of 41 in the Canada 2006 Census

Canada 2006 Census

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. Formerly it was reached by road north of Highway 35

Saskatchewan Highway 35

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 in the once densely-populated Qu'Appelle-Fort Qu'Appelle hinterland as well as by rail; since the opening of Highway 10

Saskatchewan Highway 10

Highway 10 is a provincial paved undivided highway in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It runs from Highway 1 near Balgonie until it transitions into PTH 5 at the Manitoba border. Highway 10 is about 228 km long....

from Balgonie to Fort Qu'Appelle it has been immediately adjacent to a major throughway and its significance has lapsed.