Cochin, Saskatchewan
Cochin is a resort village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within Census Division No. 17. It is on the eastern shore Jackfish Lake on the isthmus that separates Jackfish and Murray Lakes in the Rural Municipality of Meota No. 468.
History
French traders referred to the immediate area of Cochin as les Détroits before the village was created.Cochin was founded by father Louis Cochin, originally as a Christian mission. Louis Cochin was himself a french-born Oblate Order missionary. Cochin was incorporated as a resort village on January 1, 1988.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Cochin 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 conducted by Statistics Canada, the Resort Village of Cochin 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.