Macoun, Saskatchewan

Macoun (2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Cymri No. 36 and Census Division No. 2. The village is located 28 km northwest of the city of Estevan on Highway 39.

History
Macoun incorporated as a village on October 16, 1903. On April 20, 1914, an acetylene gas plant explosion in the cellar of the Macoun Hotel and the resulting fire caused 13 deaths. In the early 1900s acetylene was widely used for illumination.

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Macoun had a population of $272$ living in $109$ of its $118$ total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of $269$. With a land area of 1.7 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Macoun recorded a population of living in  of its  total private dwellings, a NaN% change from its 2011 population of. With a land area of 1.68 km2, it had a population density of in 2016.

Notable residents
Notable people from Macoun include:
 * Lenard Gustafson, Canadian senator
 * Kim Thorson, politician
 * Gladys Arnold, Journalist