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A drive down a dusty back road finds us in Loverna Saskatchewan. We’ve arrived! The community is that close to earning the title of “ghost town” and wandering quiet streets, we pass empty buildings, some near collapse, vacant lots, forgotten churches and other scattered remnants of human habitation. The silence,… (Search hits: 0 in title, 7 in body, 1 in comments.)

…carried a railway line over a broad meandering river just inside the Saskatchewan border. Today only the piers remain, lots of them, plus the old roadbed leading to each end, the decks that supported the trains long removed. Our viewpoint didn’t allow us to see the remains in their entirety…. (Search hits: 0 in title, 7 in body, 0 in comments.)

…the Saskatchewan/Alberta border. Founded just over a century ago, some fifty or so people call the town home. Stay tuned for more Saskatchewan reports. We visited the Alsask to Rosetown areas recently and saw and photographed lots of interesting things. More Saskatchewan fun… Prairie Sentinels – Neidpath Saskatchewan. St Joseph’s… (Search hits: 0 in title, 7 in body, 0 in comments.)

More than a summer ago, in world so much different from today, the Team was out exploring in the Wolseley Saskatchewan area. There it’s wide open spaces, charming little towns, much history and a pace more relaxed. It’s big skies above, limitless fields of grain and then there’s us, a… (Search hits: 0 in title, 6 in body, 1 in comments.)

…enjoy it too. Take lots of photos. Read more about the cars and trucks seen in town… Saskatchewan: old vehicles and equipment part 3 See more ghost town type places here… Neidpath Saskatchewan. A forgotten place called Comrey. Bow City townsite – with ForgottenAlberta.com. If you wish more information on… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 2 in comments.)

…This late summer evening we find ourselves in little Heinsburg Alberta, way east of Edmonton. In a picturesque wooded valley down by the North Saskatchewan River, we’ve come to explore and you’re invited to tag along. Heinsburg dates from the late 1910s and named after the Heins, an early family… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 2 in comments.)

This location is about as remote as it gets. We’re in Western Saskatchewan, here specifically part of “Census Division #8” (imaginative name), a broad expanse of prairie, a place that never was home to that many people. Picture gently rolling fields of grain that go on forever, a dusty road… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 1 in comments.)

…to appear as though still a school and made curious roadside memorials, some are in museums, but many were saved to be used as community centres. In that latter category it’s tiny Avon School seen here, in the proverbial middle of nowhere…also know as Saskatchewan (he said smiling). While it… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 1 in comments.)

On arriving point yourself in a direction of the compass – any will do. No matter, what will lay before is the never ending Saskatchewan Plains, field after field and that’s about it. There’s a farm here and many clicks distance, another there, some dusty old roads and somewhere in… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 0 in comments.)

…writing. The photos are amazing! Love it all.” Lila Cugini. A Saskatchewan state of mind… Avon School – Reading, writing and ‘rithmetic Providence Grain – Marengo Saskatchewan – Before it burned down and was a working elevator. The Clearwater – Popcorn and hotdogs – it’s drive-in movie time! If you… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 0 in comments.)

…hard to face. Neidpath Grain Elevators Revisited: Saskatchewan bound with Chris Doering & Connie Biggart (BIGDoer/Synd) Let’s all thank “JLaF” for making this article possible. Do the same… I doubt we’ll be doing a follow up piece seven years hence given there’s likely little chance anything will remain by that… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 0 in comments.)

…Raines. We love Saskatchewan! Twilite Drive-in Wolseley – Merry Melodies! Riding the Rails in SW Saskatchewan – Part One and Riding the Rails in SW Saskatchewan – Part Two – A wildly fun speeder trip. CNR #1158 at the Western Development Museum – An old steamer at an amazing museum…. (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 0 in comments.)

…strange and terrible times, when the world was just a button push away from annihilation. Alsask is a small community in west-central Saskatchewan, right beside the Alberta border. If it’s not already clear – Al=Alberta, sask=Saskatchewan. Founded just over a century ago, with the coming of the railway, it’s a… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 3 in comments.)

…half of the twentieth century. This CPR passenger car, Saskatchewan, was used to transport company officials around. A scene that could have easily have been from fifty or sixty years ago. It took a couple hours to polish all the wood in this car. Saskatchewan was built by the CPR… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 1 in comments.)

Cruising down some lonely country road in Saskatchewan comes the sight of a building off in the distance. Even from this early vantage point it’s got a familiar form and there’s little doubt what lies ahead. It’s a one-roomer and on closer inspection does not appear to be in a… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 1 in comments.)