Unity began to grow from a small settlement in 1904 to about 600 in the 1920s and is located at the western part of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan with a population of almost 2600 people.
Unity is located at the intersection of Highway 14 and Highway 21, and the intersection of the CNR and CPR main rail lines. It is located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and 375 km southeast of Edmonton, Alberta.
The town of Wilkie is situated 30.51 km to the east.The town was the subject of playwright Kevin Kerr's Governor General's Award-winning play Unity, which dramatizes the effect of the 1918 flu pandemic on Unity.