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Northern Saskatchewan Administration District
Unincorporated area
The Athabasca Sand Dunes
Location within Saskatchewan
Country	Canada
Province	Saskatchewan
Census division	Division No. 18
Area
• Total	269,997.26 km (104,246.52 sq mi)
Population
• Total	35,986 (Census Division No. 18)

The Northern Saskatchewan Administration District (NSAD) is the unincorporated area of Northern Saskatchewan, Canada. It encompasses approximately half of Saskatchewan's land mass. Despite its extent, the majority of Saskatchewanians live in the southern half of the province, while the majority of northern Saskatchewanians live in incorporated municipalities outside the NSAD's jurisdiction. The area is co-extensive with Division No. 18, Saskatchewan, one of Statistics Canada's census divisions in the province for its 2016 census.

The census division is the largest in the province terms of area at 269,996.55 square kilometres (104,246.25 sq mi), representing 46 per cent of the province's entire area of 588,239.21 square kilometres (227,120.43 sq mi).

The most populous communities in the census division are La Ronge and La Loche with populations of 2,743 and 2,611 respectively.

The 2016 census also refers to the Unorganized Division No. 18, which counted only 1,115 residents, which placed its population density at 250 square kilometres (97 sq mi) for every inhabitant. The district has no local government and is directly subject to the Minister of Government Relations.

History

An unincorporated Northern Saskatchewan region was first established by the 1948 Northern Administration Act.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Division No. 18 had a population of 35,986 living in 10,475 of its 12,843 total private dwellings, a change of -2.9% from its 2016 population of 37,064. With a land area of 262,280.94 km (101,267.24 sq mi), it had a population density of 0.1/km (0.4/sq mi) in 2021.

Division No. 18, Unorganized is an unorganized area in northern Saskatchewan. It consists of all of Division No. 18, excluding municipalities and reserves. It has a population of 1,641 as of 2011, and an area of 268,389.99 km.

Census subdivisions

Division No. 18 has 58 census subdivisions, of which 24 are municipalities (including a portion of the city of Flin Flon, a city bisected by the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border, 2 northern towns, 11 northern villages and 10 northern hamlets), 32 are First Nations communities (31 Indian reserves and an Indian settlement), an unincorporated northern settlement and the unorganized balance of Division No. 18. All municipalities within the census division, except for the Northern Hamlet of Black Point, are recognized as census subdivisions.

City

Northern towns

Northern villages

Northern hamlets

Indian settlement

Indian reserves

Unincorporated communities

A northern settlement is an unincorporated community in the Northern Saskatchewan Administration District, and its administration is regulated by The Northern Municipalities Act. Saskatchewan has 11 northern settlements. One northern settlement, Missinipe, is recognized as a census subdivision by Statistics Canada.

See also

• Unorganized Yukon, a comparable part of Yukon
• Unincorporated Far West Region of New South Wales, a comparable part of Australia
• Unorganized Borough, Alaska

References

1. https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&SearchText=Division%20No%2E%2018&DGUIDlist=2021A00034718&GENDERlist=1,2,3&STATISTIClist=1,4&HEADERlist=0
2. "Census Profile: Division No. 18, Census division (Census Division), Saskatchewan (map)". Statistics Canada. Archived from the original on December 24, 2013. Retrieved December 21, 2012.
3. "Northern Administration District". Saskatchewan Ministry of Municipal Affairs. Archived from the original on January 16, 2013. Retrieved December 21, 2012.
4. "Division No. 18, Saskatchewan (Code 4718) and Saskatchewan (Code 47) (table). Census Profile". Statistics Canada. Archived from the original on March 22, 2014. Retrieved December 21, 2012.
5. ^ "Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2011 and 2006 censuses (Saskatchewan)". Statistics Canada. Retrieved December 21, 2012.
6. ^ "Corrections and updates". Statistics Canada. October 24, 2012. Retrieved December 21, 2012.
7. ^ "Northern Saskatchewan Administration District". Government of Saskatchewan. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
8. "Population and dwelling counts: Canada and census divisions". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
9. "Census Profile, Division No. 18, Unorganized". Statistics Canada. Retrieved December 3, 2018.
10. ^ "Types of Municipalities". Saskatchewan Ministry of Municipal Affairs. Archived from the original on September 19, 2012. Retrieved December 21, 2012.
11. "The Northern Municipalities Act" (PDF). Saskatchewan Queen's Printer. Retrieved December 21, 2012.
12. ^ "Search for Municipal Information". Saskatchewan Ministry of Municipal Affairs. Archived from the original on March 10, 2014. Retrieved December 21, 2012.

v t e Places adjacent to Northern Saskatchewan Administration District

South Slave Region, Northwest Territories South Slave Region, Northwest Territories Kivalliq Region, Nunavut Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Alberta Northern Saskatchewan Administration District Unincorporated Northern Region, Manitoba / Flin Flon (partially in Manitoba) Municipal District of Bonnyville No. 87, Alberta Rural Municipality of Beaver River No. 622 Rural Municipality of Meadow Lake No. 588 Rural Municipality of Big River No. 555 Prince Albert National Park District of Lakeland No. 521 Rural Municipality of Paddockwood No. 520 Rural Municipality of Torch River No. 488 Rural Municipality of Moose Range No. 486 Rural Municipality of Hudson Bay No. 394 Rural Municipality of Kelsey, Manitoba

v t e Division No. 18, Saskatchewan
District	Northern Saskatchewan Administration District
Cities	Flin Flon (part)
Northern towns	Creighton La Ronge
Northern villages	Air Ronge Beauval Buffalo Narrows Cumberland House Denare Beach Green Lake Île-à-la-Crosse La Loche Pelican Narrows Pinehouse Sandy Bay
First Nations	Birch Narrows Black Lake Buffalo River Canoe Lake Clearwater River Cumberland House English River Fond du Lac Hatchet Lake Lac La Ronge Montreal Lake Peter Ballantyne
Indian reserves	Amisk Lake 184 Amiskosakahikan 210 Barkwell Bay 192I Beauval Forks 192O Birch Portage 184A Budd's Point 20D Buffalo River Dene Nation 193 Cable Bay 192M 192N Canoe Lake 165 165A 165B Chicken 224 Chicken 225 Chicken 226 Churchill Lake 193A Clearwater River Dene Band 221 222 223 Cree Lake 192G Cumberland House Cree Nation 20 Dipper Rapids 192C Elak Dase 192A English River 192H Flatstone Lake 192L Fond du Lac 227 228 229 231 232 233 Four Portages 157C Fox Point 157D 157E Grandmother's Bay 219 Kimosom Pwatinahk 203 Kinoosao-Thomas Clark 204 Kitsakie 156B Lac la Hache 220 Lac la Ronge 156 La Plonge 192 Little Hills 158 Little Hills 158B Montreal Lake 106 Morin Lake 217 Pelican Narrows 184B Potato River 156A Southend 200 Stanley 157 Sturgeon Weir 184F Sucker River 156C Turnor Lake 193B Wapachewunak 192D
Unorganized areas	Unorganized Division No. 18
Unincorporated communities	Northern hamlets Black Point Cole Bay Dore Lake Jans Bay Michel Village Patuanak St. George's Hill Stony Rapids Timber Bay Turnor Lake Weyakwin Northern settlements Bear Creek Brabant Lake Camsell Portage Descharme Lake Garson Lake Missinipe Sled Lake Southend Stanley Mission Uranium City Wollaston Lake Indian settlements Brabant Lake
See also: Municipalities in Saskatchewan Census divisions of Saskatchewan Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities

• Local government in Saskatchewan
• Northern Saskatchewan Administration District
• Unincorporated areas of Canada