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The settlement of Swift Current was begun in 1881 when the CPR surveyed a railway line as far as Swift Current Creek. In 1882, initial grading and track preparation commenced, with the first settlers arriving in the spring of 1883. On September 21 1903, the hamlet became a village and then a town on March 15 1907 when a census indicated a population of 550. Swift Current became incorporated as a city on January 15 1914.
The Swift Current Broncos are a hockey team that plays in the Western Hockey LeagueThis article refers to the junior Western Hockey League, and not the pro Western Hockey League (professional The Western Hockey League is one of the three hockey leagues which constitute the Canadian Hockey League. The 20 teams of the WHL are divided into.
According to the 2001 Statistics Canada census:
| Population: | 14,821 (-0.5% from 1996) |
| Land area: | 24.03 km˛ |
| Population density: | 616.8 people/km˛ |
| Median age: | 40.4 (males: 38.7, females: 42.0) |
| Total private dwellings: | 6,891 |
| Median household income: | $40,711 |
| North: RosetownRosetown, Saskatchewan is a large town at the junction of provincial highways 7 and 4, approximately 140 km southwest of Saskatoon. North Biggar West Kindersley Rosetown East Saskatoon South Swift Current Saskatchewan communities. | ||
| West: Maple Creek | Swift Current | East: Moose JawMoose Jaw is a city in south central Saskatchewan, Canada on the Moose Jaw River west of Regina. Moose Jaw is probably best known as a retirement and tourist city that serves as a hub to the hundreds of small towns and farms that make up that part of Sask |
| South: Grasslands National ParkGrasslands National Park is one of Canada's newest national parks and is located in southern Saskatchewan along the Montana border. It protects one of the country's only remaining areas of undisturbed prairie. At the present time there are no camping faci |