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Melville is a small city in the east-central portion of Saskatchewan, Canada. The city is 145 kilometres (90 mi) northeast of the provincial capital of Regina and 45 kilometres (28 mi) southwest of Yorkton. Melville is bordered by the rural municipalities of Cana No. 214 and Stanley No. 215. Its population at the 2016 census was 4,562, making it Saskatchewan’s smallest city. It is also home of hockey’s Melville Millionaires, who compete in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, and baseball’s Melville Millionaires, who competed in the Western Canadian Baseball League until 2019. _x000D_ According to What’s in a Name?: The Story Behind Saskatchewan Places and Names by E. T. Russell, and People Places: Contemporary Saskatchewan Place Names by Bill Barry, the city was named for Charles Melville Hays, who at the time of the settlement’s initial construction was the president of the Grand Trunk Railway and Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. Hays was on board the RMS Titanic when it sank; he did not make it off the ship. _x000D_ Pearl Park was the area’s first post office established in 1905 near the Pearl Creek, a tributary of the Qu’Appelle River. Melville was declared a city by the province in 1960. _x000D_ In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Melville had a population of 4,493 living in 2,078 of its 2,296 total private dwellings, a change of -1.5% from its 2016 population of 4,562. With a land area of 14.78 km2 (5.71 sq mi), it had a population density of 304.0/km2 (787.3/sq mi) in 2021. _x000D_ _x000D_ .mw-parser-output .canada-census{display:inline-block;margin:5px 5px 5px 0;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;background-color:#f8f9fa;padding:5px;font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .canada-census-caption{padding:1px 2em;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .canada-census-caption,.mw-parser-output .canada-census-header-row th,.mw-parser-output .canada-census-footnotes{background:lavender;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .canada-census>table{margin:3px auto;border-spacing:3px 0}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .canada-census-header-row th{width:13em}}.mw-parser-output .canada-census-data-row{vertical-align:top;font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .canada-census-footnotes{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .canada-census-data-row th{padding:3px;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .canada-census-data-row td{padding:3px;position:relative;left:-2px}.mw-parser-output .canada-census-data-row td td{border-left:1px #bbb solid}.mw-parser-output .canada-census-footnotes{padding:1px} _x000D_ The mayor of Melville is Dr. Walter Streelasky. _x000D_ Provincially, Melville is within the constituency of Melville-Saltcoats. It is currently represented by Saskatchewan Party MLA Warren Kaeding. _x000D_ Melville is represented in the House of Commons of Canada by the MP of the Yorkton—Melville riding, currently Cathay Wagantall of the Conservative Party of Canada. _x000D_ Melville’s namesake was the president of the Grand Trunk Railway and Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Charles Melville Hays. Since Melville’s founding in 1908, it has served as a nexus for railroad activity, currently including that of Canadian National Railway and Via Rail, the latter for which Melville effectively serves as the main rail-to-bus connection to Regina for its passengers. Today, the transcontinental Canadian train, operated by national passenger rail carrier Via Rail, serves the Melville railway station twice per week eastbound and twice westbound. _x000D_ In 2002 the St. Peter’s Hospital was constructed. St. Peter’s was founded in 1940 as a municipal hospital by the Sisters of St. Martha, based in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Next to St. Peter’s is the St. Paul Lutheran Home. _x000D_ The Melville Railway Museum (c. 1911) is a Municipal Heritage Property on the Canadian Register of Historic Places. _x000D_ The Melville Heritage Museum is in the original Luther College (formerly Luther Academy) building, built in 1913. The Luther Academy moved to Regina in 1926. After a stint as St. Paul’s Home for the Aged and Orphans, the building was declared a heritage site, opening as a museum in the early 1980s. _x000D_ Melville’s connections by road to other communities include Saskatchewan Highways 10, 15 and 47. The closest major centre to Melville is the city of Yorkton, 43 kilometres to the northeast. _x000D_ Melville Municipal Airport (TC LID: CJV9) is located 1.5 NM (2.8 km; 1.7 mi) east of the city. _x000D_ Melville is served by public and Catholic schools: École St. Henry’s Junior Elementary School, and St. Henry’s Sr School are both part of the Christ the Teacher Catholic School Division Davison School, as part of the Good Spirit School Division offers pre-kindergarten to grade 6 education. The Melville Comprehensive School, a part of the Good Spirit School Division provides secondary education. Parkland Regional College provides post secondary technical training and operates a campus out of the Melville Comprehensive High School building. Parkland College operates its NFPA fire training field near the Melville Municipal Airport. _x000D_ Melville is home to the Melville Millionaires of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, as well as the Melville Millionaires of the Western Canadian Baseball League, who last played in the 2019 season. _x000D_ In 2011 the Melville Communiplex opened. The federal and provincial governments covered $20 million of the construction costs of the $24.5 million facility. The Communiplex has an NHL size ice surface and seating capacity for 1,500 people, a walking track, fitness and cardio care facilities, and a convention centre. It replaces the existing 60-year-old Melville Stadium, home to the Melville Millionaires. _x000D_ The city also has an 18-hole golf course. _x000D_ Melville currently has no current FM or AM radio stations, instead they are serviced by a digital radio station called: The Buzz (www.TheBuzzRocks.ca) _x000D_ Television _x000D_ Within 20 kilometres (12 mi) are the Melville Game Preserve, Melville Regional Park, Melville Reservoir, and Duff Recreation Site. _x000D_ In the film Hannibal Rising (2007), title character Hannibal Lecter shows up in the “hamlet of Melville” in the final scene. However the town depicted is surrounded by forest and is referred to as “near Saskatoon”. _x000D_ _x000D_ Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville,_Saskatchewan