Bracken, Saskatchewan

Bracken (2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Lone Tree No. 18 and Census Division No. 4. The village is named after John Bracken, Premier of Manitoba and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, who was a professor at the University of Saskatchewan. The small village is located approximately 160 km south of the City of Swift Current on Highway 18, directly north of Grasslands National Park, and approximately 20 km north of the Montana-Saskatchewan border.

History
Bracken incorporated as a village on January 4, 1926.

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Bracken had a population of $20$ living in $11$ of its $14$ total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of $20$. With a land area of 0.63 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Bracken recorded a population of living in  of its  total private dwellings, a NaN% change from its 2011 population of. With a land area of 0.6 km2, it had a population density of in 2016.

Attractions

 * Grasslands National Park is located in southern Saskatchewan along the Montana border.
 * Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, an interprovincial park straddling the southern Alberta-Saskatchewan border, located southeast of Medicine Hat. It is Canada's only interprovincial park.

Education
Students in Bracken are bused to Frontier, which has a school that covers kindergarten through grade 12 in the Chinook School Division.