List of ghost towns in Saskatchewan

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The following is a list of communities that no longer exist or former Villages/Towns that have become unincorporated hamlets in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada.

Ghost towns are towns that once had a considerable population, that have since dwindled in numbers causing some or all its business to close, either due to the rerouting of a highway, train tracks being pulled, or exhaustion of a natural resource. One of the more famous stories of Saskatchewan ghost towns arose around Uranium City which was close to achieving city status and utterly collapsed upon the closure of the Eldorado mine and the mass exodus of its population.[1]

Initially travel began by horse and wagon or ox and cart along trails which generally followed animal trails across the North-West Territories. Railways would not build across the western frontier without settlement as it would be too costly to provide train service across a barren wilderness.[2] The Clifford Sifton immigration policy encouraged settlers to arrive.[3] Western settlement began and immigration encroached across the Manitoba border into the North-West Territories later to become the Province of Saskatchewan in 1905. Rail stations, post offices, schools, and towns sprang up approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) to 10 miles (16 km) apart to accommodate ox and cart as well as horse and wagon travel.[4][5] As travel evolved to automobiles, there was no longer a need for centres this close together. In the 1940s when the highway became more popular, and the rail branch lines started to close down, saw the demise of sidings and villages located on the rail line but not on the highway. In the late 1950s and 1960s when highways were straightened and developed from gravel to asphalt and oil surface highways many of the bypassed towns and villages folded. Businesses set up shop in towns on the new straightened highway,[6] and children could be bused to composite schools in the larger centres. The following placenames may exist only as commemorative road names which intersect the current highways and have disappeared altogether or they may be unincorporated areas of the Rural Municipality|RM such as Floral, the birthplace of Gordie Howe. Floral would be currently located off the Yellowhead highway for example but it was on Provincial Highway 5 when the road was on the square. Floral currently is demarked by an old church at the Floral Cemetery, and the Floral one room school is now the community hall for meetings and social gatherings. The only remembrance of Floral is a road named Floral road. The road travelled on the 'square' connecting many small country towns was a different one from the highway of today connecting larger urban centres.

A rural municipality, often abbreviated RM, is a form of municipality consisting of an elected reeve for the elected head along with aldermen or Councillors of a rural municipality, performing a similar role to the mayor of a village, town or city.[7] An RM may have its office in a town or village, which has its own separate and distinct civic administration, but the RM administers the rural affairs of a large land area including unincorporated areas or ghost towns. The RM administers the remaining population of the ghost town providing any needed civic infrastructure, safety, health, educational, or tourism affairs. Localities with small populations are enumerated in census taking by Statistics Canada as a population belonging to the RM. For instance Churchbridge No. 211 includes the localities of Beresina and the Melville Airport.[8]

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Hospital in Robsart
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Island Falls powerhouse

List of ghost towns

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Name Rural
municipality (RM) 		Land Address Lat/Long
Amulet Norton No. 16 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Arena Frontier No. 19 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Auburnton Moose Creek No. 33 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Baildon Baildon No. 131 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Bateman Gravelbourg No. 104 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Battrum Riverside No. 168 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Bay Trail Wolverine No. 340 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Bayard Terrell No. 101 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Bents Marriott No. 317 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Birch Creek Emerald No. 277 Sec.10, Twp.30, R.14, W2
Blewett Cymri No. 36 SW Sec.12, Twp.5, R.10, W2 Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Bonne Madone Hoodoo No. 401 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Bounty Fertile Valley No. 285 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Breeze Browning No. 34
Bresaylor Paynton No. 470 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Bromhead Souris Valley No. 7 Sec.3, Twp.3, R.13, W2 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Brooking Laurier No. 38 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Browning Browning No. 34 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Bryant Benson No. 35 SW Sec.12 Twp.5 R.9, W2 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Buffalo Gap {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Cactus Lake s Hill No. 352, Saskatchewan|Heart|s Hill No. 352 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Cosine Eye Hill No. 382 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Canuck Lone Tree No. 18 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Chandler Cymri No. 36 SW Sec.10, Twp.5, R.11, W2 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Claydon Frontier No. 19 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Clearfield Brokenshell No. 68
Coalfields Coalfields No. 4
Colgate Lomond No. 37 SE Sec.24 Twp.5 R.15, W2 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Court Antelope Park No. 322
Crichton Wise Creek No. 77 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Cullen Benson No. 35 NW-SW Sec.7 Twp.5 R.7, W2 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Cummings Maple Creek No. 111 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Diana Bratt's Lake No. 129 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Divide Reno No. 51 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Dernic (Federal Grain Spur) Buchanan No. 304
Dneiper Sliding Hills No. 273
Dobrowody Invermay No. 305
Dummer Caledonia No. 99 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Elcott Enniskillen No. 3
Elswick Cymri No. 36 NW Sec.2 Twp.5 R.12, W2 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Estuary Deer Forks No. 232 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Expanse Lake Johnston No. 102 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Flintoft Stonehenge No. 73
Floral Corman Park No. 344 Sec.4 Twp.36 R.4, W3 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Forward Norton No. 69 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Froude Griffin No. 66 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Fusilier Antelope Park No. 322
Garwood Weyburn No. 67
Galilee Terrell No. 101 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Gallivan Cut Knife No. 439 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Gibbs Longlaketon No. 219 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Girvin Arm River No. 252 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Glamis St. Andrews No. 287 NW_7_28_13_W3
Glasnevin {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Glen Bain Glen Bain No. 105
Glen Kerr Morse No. 165
Goodwater Lomond No. 37 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Gouldtown Morse No. 165 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Gouverneur Auvergne No. 76
Govenlock Reno No. 51 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Grassdale Weyburn No. 67
Halkett Estevan No. 5
Hallonquist Coulee No. 136 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Handsworth Golden West No. 95 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Hardy The Gap No. 39 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Harptree Bengough No. 40 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Hatton Maple Creek No. 111 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Hearne Redburn No. 130 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Herschel Mountain View No. 318 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Hoffer Souris Valley No. 7
Holloway Cymri No. 36 NW Sec.1 Twp.6 R.12, W2
Horizon Bengough No. 40 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Hughton Monet No. 257 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Hume Griffin No. 66
Huntoon Griffin No. 66
Innes Griffin No. 66
Insinger Insinger No. 275 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Instow Bone Creek No. 108 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Island Falls {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Jasmin Ituna Bon Accord No. 246 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Jordan River Arborfield No. 456
Kayville Key West No. 70 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Kingsford Browning No. 34
Lakenheath Stonehenge No. 73
Lillestrom Hillsborough No. 132 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Loomis Frontier No. 19 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Loverna Antelope Park No. 322 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Luxton Browning No. 34
Masefield Val Marie No. 17 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Maxim Lomond No. 37 NE Sec.21 Twp. 4 R.15, W2 Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Minard Browning No. 34
Nashlyn Reno No. 51 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Neidpath Coulee No. 136 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Neptune Lomond No. 37 Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Neville Whiska Creek No. 106 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
New Finland Willowdale No. 153 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Old Wives Hillsborough No. 132 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Oungre Souris Valley No. 7 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Outram Cambria No. 6 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Oxarat Reno No. 51 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Parkbeg Wheatlands No. 163 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Pinto Coalfields No. 4
Polwarth Canwood No. 494
Rangeview Reno No. 51 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Ravenscrag White Valley No. 49 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Reynaud Three Lakes No. 400
Robinhood Medstead No. 497
Robsart Reno No. 51 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Romance Leroy No. 339
Roseray Pittville No. 169 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Rutland Colonsay No. 342 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Scotsguard Bone Creek No. 108 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Senate Reno No. 51 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Service Moose Mountain No. 63
Shand Estevan No. 5
Smuts Grant No. 372 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
South Fork Arlington No. 79 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Southall Souris Valley No. 7
St. Boswells Glen Bain No. 105 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Tableland Estevan No. 5
Tarnopol Invergordon No. 430 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Tatagwa Weyburn No. 67 NW Sec.17 Twp.8 R.15, W2
Tate Mount Hope No. 279
Tiny Buchanan No. 304
Taylorton Coalfields No. 4
Trossachs Brokenshell No. 68 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Truax Elmsthorpe No. 100 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Union Jack Weyburn No. 67
Uren Chaplin No. 164 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Valjean Chaplin No. 164 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Valley Centre Marriott No. 317
Vantage Sutton No. 103 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Verlo Pittville No. 169
Vesper Lac Pelletier No. 107
Vidora Reno No. 51 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Viewfield Benson No. 35 SW S.34 Twp.6 R.9, W2 and NW Sec.27 Twp 6 R.9, W2 Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Wauchope Antler No. 61 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Wheatstone Key West No. 70 Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Winter Round Valley No. 410 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Woodley Browning No. 34 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Xena Morris No. 312 {{WikidataCoord}} – malformed coordinate data
Yonker Senlac No. 411 Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.

See also

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Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap
  • Download coordinates as KML
Ghost towns in Canada by province or territory

References

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  5. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  6. ^ Anderson, Frank W. (1998). The Yellowhead Trail in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Frank W. Anderson. p. 67
  7. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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