Livelong, Saskatchewan

Livelong is a hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Mervin No. 499 in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

S0M 1J0 is a postal code for Livelong.

An annual celebration "Live it up day" is held in early August.[1] It is a one-day fun-filled fair. Breakfast, supper and dance, street entertainment, parade, food vendor booths and beer gardens. Horseshoes, baseball games, bingo, bowling, games of chance and children's games. 3rd annual $1000 hole-in-one play-off.

A war memorial cenotaph was erected in front of the Livelong Legion #192. Constructed in 1988 in memory of all veterans of Livelong and district. The cenotaph was constructed by Bill Rhode, Sam Rhode, and Murray Kopp. Art Dorval made the cross and it was erected by Chief Denny.[2]

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Livelong had a population of 100 living in 39 of its 47 total private dwellings, a change of 35.1% from its 2016 population of 74. With a land area of 0.17 km2 (0.066 sq mi), it had a population density of 588.2/km2 (1,523.5/sq mi) in 2021.[3]

Local businesses

Livelong is the home of :

  • Forest Edge Studios, featuring the Wildlife Art of Canadian Artist C.D.(Dave) Hiebert.[4]
  • Trails End Buffalo Stix - Cranberry Craze are a meat and fruit snack. Named by Food in Canada in 2005 as one of the top 10 entrepreneurs.[5]
  • Sylvester Brothers Handcrafted Log Homes
  • Turtle River Campground / Cabins / Outfitting[6]
  • TeaLife[7]

Churches
  • St. John's Anglican Church

History
  • Livelong Legacies (Livelong, Deer Run, Dexter, Elmhurst, Freemont, Patch Grove, South Branch, Turtleview, Waskiagon, Turtle Lake, Thunderchild) published by the Saskatchewan Livelong Historical Society, 1981 971.242 LIV][8]

Organizations
  • Turtle Lake Watershed Inc.[9] Their mission: The maintenance of a healthy aquatic ecosystem within the Turtle Lake watershed basin. (Turtle Lake is approx. 6 miles north of Livelong.)

Clubs
  • Livelong Pinetoppers[10]
  • Livelong Curling Club

Notable residents
  • Charles J. Neale, awarded World War 1, Distinguished Conduct Medal.[11] Resided in Livelong from 1950 - 1979.
  • Jeremy Power Regimbal, Director,[12][13] spent his childhood[14] in Livelong.
  • Lisa Guenther, Author,[15]
  • Gordon Denny, Manager - Saskatchewan Fisheries Cooperative in Air Ronge, Saskatchewan, for whom Gordon Denny Community[16] school is named after was a Livelong resident until the 1960s.
  • Blanchette, Marc - Tattoo artist at Turtleford, Saskatchewan

Pop culture
  • Girl at the Window: Author Byrna Barclay takes her readers from Livelong, Saskatchewan to Spain and the Island of Crete in this collection of short stories published in 2004.[17]
  • The Garden of Eloice Loon, written by Edna Alford[18] a Livelong resident.[19]

References
  1. Tourism Saskatchewan
  2. War Monuments in Canada Archived July 13, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Population and dwelling counts: Canada and designated places". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved August 31, 2022.
  4. Forest Edge Studios
  5. Trails End Buffalo Stix
  6. "Shooting-Hunting.com". Archived from the original on November 28, 2010. Retrieved August 10, 2009.
  7. roxyscarlett.tealife.ca Archived 2014-12-14 at archive.today
  8. Swift Current Library
  9. Turtle Lake Watershed Inc.
  10. Club Data Base Saskatchewan Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine
  11. London Gazette
  12. http://jeremypowerregimbal.com/
  13. In Their Skin
  14. The Star Phoenix
  15. Livelong author wins manuscript award, The Battlefords News-Optimist
  16. Gordon Denny Community School
  17. Amazon.ca
  18. Google Books
  19. Books in Canada

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