10 Ghost Towns in Saskatchewan I Bet You Don't Know About!

Saskatchewan was once home to hundreds of towns that no longer exist. Not abandoned farmhouses — whole towns. With hospitals, dance halls, grain elevators, newspapers, churches, and streets full of people. Most of them disappeared before you were born, and the scale of what happened here has no real equivalent anywhere else in Canada. In this video, we count down ten Saskatchewan ghost towns most people have never heard of — starting now. In this video, we explore: → The dying prairie town where Gordie Howe was born in 1928 — his family left when he was a child, the town kept dying, and today a plaque in a field is the only evidence anything was ever there → The community named after Canadians themselves, abandoned and unknown to most of the country it was supposedly named for, sitting on a highway that passes through 32 separate ghost towns → The railway town emptied not by drought or disaster but by an administrative decision made in a Winnipeg office by men who had never seen it — optimizing for tonnage, not communities → The ghost town where the only remaining resident answered a stranger's question about where the old town was with: "Well, this is it, but there's nothing here but old buildings" → The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool elevator so visually striking against the flat horizon that it ended up in a National Geographic photograph — beside a rusted swing set frame with the swings long gone → The community that refused to let its railway close — residents forming their own company and buying the line themselves, an act almost without precedent in Saskatchewan's history of railway closures → The Victorian-era hospital still standing intact in southwestern Saskatchewan, furniture still in the houses, a Beaver Lumber storefront sign still readable — a town mid-sentence, waiting for someone to finish it → The community that went from bare prairie to 163 businesses and 800 people in a decade — then watched houses physically jacked up and hauled away to follow the competing rail line the CPR built five years later And at number one: the northern uranium city of 2,507 people that collapsed by 96 percent in a single generation — not over decades, over months — leaving 91 people today in the infrastructure of a small city built for thousands, with no paved road connecting it to anywhere, and a high school named after a nuclear reactor that closed four years after it opened. Subscribe — we cover hidden Canadian history like this every week. #Saskatchewan #GhostTowns #CanadianHistory #GhostCanada #AbandonedCanada #HiddenCanada #ForgottenPlaces #PrairieCanada #UraniumCity