Ponteix
Town
Town of Ponteix
Ponteix town hall
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Coordinates:49°44′51″N107°29′18″W / 49.7476°N 107.4883°W /49.7476; -107.4883
Country	Canada
Province	Saskatchewan
Post office Founded	1908-10-01
Government
• Mayor	David Scully
• Town Manager	Lynne Lemieux
• Governing body	Ponteix Town Council
• MLA	Dave Marit
• MP	Jeremy Patzer
Area
• Total	1.09 km2 (0.42 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[1]
• Total	577
• Density	485.2/km2 (1,257/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−6 (Central Standard Time)
Postal code	S0N 1Z0
Area code	306
Highways	Highway 13 Highway 612
Website	www.ponteix.ca
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Ponteix (/ˈpɒntɛks/,PON-teks) is atown in southwesternSaskatchewan, Canada, 86 kilometres (53 mi) southeast ofSwift Current. It is onHighway 628, just north ofHighway 13.

In 1908, Father Albert-Marie Royer from theAuvergne region inFrance established a parish and hamlet called Notre-Dame d’Auvergne north of Notukeu Creek.^[4] Five years later, the townsite was moved south of the creek when theCanadian Pacific Railway laid track there. After the move, the community was renamed Ponteix after Father Royer's former parish in France (Le Ponteix, commune ofAydat).^[5]

In the2021 Census of Population conducted byStatistics Canada, Ponteix had a population of577 living in242 of its276 total private dwellings, a change of2.5% from its 2016 population of563. With a land area of 1.19 km² (0.46 sq mi), it had a population density of484.9/km² (1,255.8/sq mi) in 2021.^[6]

According to the 2011 federal census, 175 of Ponteix's residents spoke both official languages (English and French).^[1]

Notukeu Regional Park (49°45′00″N107°29′07″W / 49.7501°N 107.4854°W /49.7501; -107.4854)^[9] is aregional park along the banks of Notukeu Creek and adjacent to Ponteix. The park has a campground, golf course, spray park, and swimming pool.^[10] It is a small park that was founded in 1964.

The campground has 30 serviced campsites plus a tenting area.^[11] The Ponteix Golf Club has grass greens and is a 9-hole, par 33 course that totals 2,485 yards. There is a licensed clubhouse andpro shop.^[12]

• Plesiosaur Statue: Near Ponteix was the site of aplesiosaur find in the early 1990s. In 1995 community members and students of Ponteix school contributed small articles to this plesiosaur statue before it was filled with cement and painted by the townspeople in a ceremony commemorating the discovery of the original plesiosaur's bones.^[13]
• Notukeu Heritage Museum in Ponteix features prehistoric artifacts.^[14]
• Notre Dame D'Auvergne Catholic Church, a brick and concrete structure in Ponteix built in 1929, features twin steeples and houses a large wood carving of thePieta.^[15] The Pieta statue came to Canada in 1909 and was saved when the 1916 church was destroyed by fire in 1923. A description of the oak statue in 1954 by Abbot Jerome Webber ofSt. Peter's Abbey claims it was made in France over four hundred years ago, was saved by peasants during theFrench Revolution and was once covered in pure gold.^[16]

• Mark Lamb — formerNHL ice hockey player

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