Lang, Saskatchewan


Lang is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Scott No. 98 and Census Division No. 2. The village is located approximately 70 km southeast of the City of Regina.
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History

Lang was named after George Macdonald Lang, a civil engineer and architect, who was employed by the Canadian Pacific Railway between 1893 and 1906. Lang incorporated as a village on July 27, 1906.
The village is known for the Lang Community Skating Rink, a small facility mainly used for hockey which requires players to enter the ice from their dressing rooms utilizing a drawbridge-like set of stairs which require weight upon them to come down directly onto the ice surface, and then are raised back up with a counterweight when not in use. The ice surface is naturally created and manually maintained through the winter.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Lang 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 Lang 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.

Education

Students from Lang attend school in Milestone, of the Prairie Valley School Division.

Notable people