Swift Current

Swift Current is the sixth-largest city in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It lies along the Trans Canada Highway, 177 kilometres west of Moose Jaw, 223 kilometres east of Medicine Hat in Alberta and 254 kilometres west of the provincial capital, Regina, and the Rural Municipality of Swift Current No. 137 surrounds it. Its estimated population in 2021 was 16,750, up 0.9 percent from 16,604 at the 2016 census. The settlement was established in 1883, after the Canadian Pacific Railway surveyed a line as far as Swift Current Creek, and the first settlers arrived in the spring of that year. In its early years the local economy depended almost entirely on serving the new railway buildings and employees, alongside a significant ranching operation.