Mistusinne
Mistusinne is a resort village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within Census Division No. 7. It is on the eastern shore of Gordon McKenzie Arm of Lake Diefenbaker in the Rural Municipality of Maple Bush No. 224.
History
The resort village's name is derived from the Plains Cree word mistasiniy or mistaseni, which refers to a 400-ton glacial erratic that resembled a sleeping bison. It once rested in the Qu'Appelle Valley and served as a sacred gathering place for the Cree and Assiniboine peoples before Lake Diefenbaker was built. During the South Saskatchewan River dam project, the erratic was in the flood path of the new reservoir that would become Lake Diefenbaker. In 1966, the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration had the rock blasted apart with explosives, despite efforts by groups to save it. Pieces of the rock were used in monuments to Chief Poundmaker and a memorial to the boulder itself in Elbow. Large fragments were located under the waters of the lake in 2014.Mistusinne incorporated as a resort village on August 1, 1980.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Mistusinne 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 Mistusinne 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.