Western Saskatchewan Ghost Towns
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- čas přidán 17. 06. 2024
- Join me as I visit ghost towns and abandoned places in Western Saskatchewan. Grain elevators, Churches, houses, shops and much more.
Link to my book Forgotten Saskatchewan which will be re-released in July 2024
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Link to my Grain Elevator Book
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Names of towns covered
Lake Valley
Ernfold
Hodgeville
Neidpath
Fosterton
Abbey
Portreeve
Mendham
Eatonia
Mantario
Alsask
Loverna
Hoosier
Superb
Ruthilda
Stranraer
Herschel
Netherhill
Thanks for this tour. i remember some of these town back in the good old days when they were much bigger and vibrant.
Glad you enjoyed it
love these old towns and buildings.❤️🇺🇸
The places you show look clean!
Yes, that WAS an enjoyable video, Chris!
Glad you enjoyed it!
My great grandfather and grandfather both homesteaded in Neidpath. Bigford and Wilson.
Another great video, thanks so much! We were just in Ernfold last weekend cruising around. That old school is amazing.
It really is!
Your videos are just a joy to see! Much love from San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
Thank you so much!
Oh I really enjoyed this video.
My mother and father bother grew up in the 30's.
Meyronne Saskatchewan.
Grandpa Hunter was the Telegraph operator and also the Train Station operator.
My Dad his brother and sister lived their til after the Second World War.
When my Dad and Uncle returned from fighting in Europe.
My mom's dad had the Big Farm Machinery, plus Truck and Car dealership in town.
My grandparents bother tried to give work to the thousands of men and families who would be starving, broke and either driving through or riding the rails to find work.
My mother's Mom was a gem and excellent cook and baker.
So after the drifters had done a days work for one or the other Grandparents they would be sent up to Grandma and she would feed them and pack a lunch for them.
There was a Mark outside mom's house for drifters to know they would help and feed you!
I went back with mom and the only brother or man of all the family when Saskatchewan had their Centennial Year.
Mom bought the old Pipe Organ from the United Church because it was being decommissioned.
The top floors of the hotel had blown off a few years back.
Unfortunately after Grandpa Hunter picked up and moved to Vancouver when my Dad and his brother came back from the War which my Mom's folks had also done.
The Train Station was closed down and the trains didn't stop anymore.
So the elevators stopped being used and fell apart.
The Hockey arena was still working well.
But I've seen other videos that are of Meyronne that sadly break my heart to watch because so much is gone or overgrown.
Like in these videos of yours.
I remember all the sad and heroic stories my mom and others have told about those Great Depression years.
All the desperation and struggles they Endured.
The sacrifices they all made and how so many didn't make it.
Then the War.
Anyway I was hopeful that you might be going through Meyronne, Kincaid and Woodrow Saskatchewan if there is anything left.
I personally want to make it out and do some digging around in the libraries in Moose Jaw and Regina to look for more information about my Grandparents and their involvement with Running Whiskey and Rye across the border for Al Capone using Grandpa's Trains!
I remember them telling stories about how one Grandpa could pull a full box car from a dead stand still.
While the other one could get under a Draught Heavy Horse and Stand up with the Horse on his Shoulders as he walked away with the horse on his back.
Bwahahaha!
Anyway now my children are all grown up I'd like to come back to where my Grandparents and parents spent those Dirty 30s and do some research and poking around myself!
Thanks for this video.
I'll be honest it had me tearing up as I watched.
Imaging how much different it would have all looked during the Dust Bowl.
Peace and Love be with you on your travels and journey
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Интересная история.
Привет вам из России. И пожелания добра.
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Thanks for another great video. A few of these are not that far from Saskatoon. I now know what I will be up to next long weekend!
Hope you enjoy!
Awesome video! You got me itching for another Saskatchewan road trip! 🌞
Hope you get to go!
Thank you for taking me to see. Exotic places Following you from Thailand🇹🇭🇹🇭
Thanks for watching!
my husband is friends with Sibbalds from Conquest
ghost towns or even single abandoned buildings are absolutely unthinkable here in switzerland, everything gets cleaned, renovated, or demolished and removed here. i wish we had places like these in our country, absolute magic!
Canada is about 242 times bigger than Switzerland, so no place for comparison really, lol.
@@Ivv94 sure, yeah, but even when you cross the border to italy you instantly see abandoned buildings.
my brother lives in the cantone wallis and we went to domossola by train and as soon as we left the tunnel, we were greeted by an abandoned train station, abandoned mining facilities and so on.
same in germany but to a lesser extend.
switzerland is just sterile.
I love all of the content you provide! I moved to the Prairies from the east coast of Canada back in 1998 and immediately fell in love with the landscape. I’ve always been very intrigued by ghost towns and the abandoned buildings. Thank you so much for sharing this with us.!
Oh wow! THank you!
This was really entertaining. I had no idea that there were so many of these towns in the prairies. Seems, from what you’re saying, that the absence of trains killed many small towns. I will be looking for your books now!
Thank you!
Thanks so much for another awesome tour video of Canada. Really enjoyed the beautiful scenery. Been awhile now since your last video. Hope the next one is sooner.
THanks! Yes I am back up and making videos now.
That abandoned golf course is cool, I would for sure walk or even play that.
Just thought I would let you know how to pronounce 2 of the communities you featured.
Mantario ... beginning of it is pronounced as you would expect (gender) and the ending you had correctly. I grew up in that area ... on a farm between there and Flaxcombe. I remember going with Dad to the UGG elevator, Hammerlindl's garage. There used to be a General store, communuty hall, curling rink on Main Street. Attended Sunday school and was confirmed at the United Church.
I attended High School in Eatonia and still have family there.
Netherhill ("Nether" rhymes with weather).
Have you found anything in Flaxcombe? I know the original Elementary school has been torn down ..... has/had a cairn or plaque in its place
Wow thank you so much. I think the Church is still there but now private residence.
Flaxcombe is great, the elevator is still in town and I think people are moving back to this pretty place.
Yay I’m excited you have a new video up! 😊
Thank you!
I really enjoy these videos! It's wonderful that you are documenting this history.
Thankyou Chris a truly wonderful video.
Thank you kindly!
26:00 there is something beautiful about old abandoned cars. But look at that chrome! Still shiny to this day 🙌
Thx for the great video.
Chris! You're back! Super video
Yes I am! Thanks!
My Mother, a member of a family of ten children, grew up in Ernfold. and my Grandparents are buried there. Thanks for the Video , Chris.
Thanks for watching!
Great video Chris,keep ‘‘em coming
Thanks, will do!
Like your awesome videos. Keep up the good work!
Thank you!
Really enjoy these videos Chris, I live in one of the Ghost towns you feature, and find it really sad that there are so many just fading away into history, all the stories to be forgotten.
Thank you! I am happy that in some of these places people are returning.
Loved the video. I live in a hamlet in Alberta close to Highway 1, the population is 40 people. I love it.
Thanks for watching!
Interesting video. I used to work in the area and remember visiting some of those place when I worked in the patch.
Thank you Chris that was beautiful wow awesome 👏
Thank you!
Driven through some and close by others of these towns. Drove grain truck in the 90s while going to university. Very well shot and think I need to go on a road trip soon.
Thanks!
Another superb video. Always look forward to a new video of yours. This area(and the southwest corner of Saskatchewan) is where i want to retire. 👍
That is a great area to retire, price is right!
Had the pleasure of being the minister at Drumbo Sask. in 1986. Would like to go back just to see the town and those still in the area.
Thanks that was really interesting.
Thank you!
Good work, Chris.
Thanks!
Funny!! In your book i was just spinning through it and you have shot some of the farm houses I also shot. Very interesting how we shot the one farm house different. Your cover pic and page 83, along with your frobisher pictures.
That is terrific!!
Thanks for making a very nice video
Thanks!
Благодарю.
Очень много мыслей и воспоминаний пробуждают такие пейзажи.
😂one thing to mention is that the wind never stops blowing on the prairies!
And it gets very cold,minus 42°farenheight or colder.
great video thank you
Great video Chris. Really enjoy watching you tour ghost towns of Saskatchewan and other parts of Western Canada. Learn alot of what life was like. History is great to enjoy. Keep putting out the videos. 😊😊
Thank you!
@@attrell you're welcome
Much enjoyed this video, perhaps in another video, you can feature another 2 Western Saskatchewan Ghost Towns, Simmie and Vesper which are located along the former CP Rail Dunelm subdivision.
Thanks! I will go check them both out :)
Great video, it makes a guy want to go and discover the towns himself.
YOu'll enjoy the trip!
Fantastic Video Chris
Many thanks!
I loved the northeastern Montana video. This is cool too.
Hello from South Central Montana
Hello there! I live 90 mins north of Harlem, MT!
@@attrell I have relatives in Havre
Nice video. Thanks for sharing. 👍429
This was really enjoyable. A lot of these towns were based on how farming went. I can imagine what life was like back in the 1950s, in these prairie towns in North America. A different kind of pace. One of the the things that I'd like to do is a tour of the prairie provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and go into Montana, North Dakota, and even Minnesota, to see these rural areas. I'm originally from a very large farm in Alberta, and there is something fascinating about these rural areas and their history. Cheers! 👍🏻👍🏻✌️🇨🇦
Thank you, another wonderful video!!! "Gustnado" 😁
Thanks again!
My hometown of Herschel! There are still a few people still living there.
I like that town!
Great videos
Thank you!
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So sad! I ❤ Saskatchewan❤️
Absolutely beautiful my friend! I cannot get enough footage like this!!! Thank you Sir. Outstanding work.
Many thanks!
Hi Chris, BEUTIFUL and another Amazing video of SK, I love your walk arounds' We don't have any great old closed buildings here in the uk' I'm really jealous of what you have there' anyway you are also a very lucky man indeed...il just have to stick with what I have here... Really enjoyed this video... Love These vids...im thinking of buying your book anway..
Thanks, you too!
Excellent.
Thank you!
Have you ever been to Blumenhof SK? That's another really cute one with an old store. You could see the old till in the window, the last time I was there.
Thanks, I will go check it out
Very inersting stuff...thanks!
Glad you think so!
Hi Chris. I love watching videos about the old buildings. If they could tell their stories, what amazing stories they would be. I have your book about the Grain Elevators. Will your book about Saskatchewan be in book stores? Have a Wonderful Summer and Stay Safe on your Adventures.
Thanks 👍 Yes they should be at Indigo and McNally Robinson in about 1 month.
Saskatchewan is an interesting place. It always amazes me that people invested millions of dollars into infrastructure such as railroads and grain elevators only to have the rail lines abandoned and the elevators left to bear silent witness to the past. Alberta and Manitoba share a similar story.
Great video, awesome landscape. Very different from Cooktown far north Queensland!
Thank you!
Alsask had the DEW LINE radar towers . I helped demo the 85 foot tower in 1984. I slept in the dilapidated old dorms in the military barracks in Alsask . There is still one tower on the site .
Another great video tour Chris! Did you happen to catch the name of the Mayor in Hodgeville? Lol! Going to have to add a visit to some of these places to my bucket list. Always so interesting to picture what these towns once looked like.
Ha ha he didn't speak at all :)
We lost our tracks from North Battleford to Turtleford about 15 years ago, they came to regret that decision to take our tracks less than a decade later with the arrival of the SAGD projects, now all of the oil that there isn’t room for through the pipelines has to get trucked down south of the river. Lol! Fortunately we have the oilfield up here, otherwise we’d have lots of ghost towns here as well.
That does sound like a poor decision. I can't wait to visit Turtleford area again.
Up in Stuart,British Columbia, their old firehall has a similar design. I was there in 2015,and they were trying to restore it.
Love these videos. Thank you for doing these. Do you know if anyone still lives in Mikado? East of Canora.
Not sure, but I will be there this year and find out.
@@attrell that’s great!! Looking forward to it
My parents grew up in port Reeve, some time I'd like to visit and see what it looks like.
Not much left
@@attrell if I recall I think my dad used to run a ferry across a river around there ?
Great video Chris. Your book on abandoned towns is "currently unavailable " on this link here in the UK, I would really like to get my hands on one! Just seen it comes out in July !!
Yes coming soon, I can't wait!
The concrete pads in Feudal were possibly of the former Co-op store which was the last business to close sometime in the 1990's. At that time I think the elevator had just closed and the only resident in town may have been the elevator agent or the Co-op manager. When the location closed it still had a thriving bulk fuel distribution business so the Co-op relocated to nearby Perdue and built a new Convenience store/Gas station on the highway. It remains to this date a viable business.
Thanks for letting me know. That makes a lot of sense now.
Lake Valley is about 28 miles, southwest of Chamblerlain ; on highway south from Saskatoon to Regina....
First devastation was the train abandon the people, then the last thread, Greyhound/STC turned everything into Ghost Towns ...
The "complicated machine" is a combine harvester
Thank you!
With all the crap happening in the world today, small town Saskatchewan will have its day again.
Agreed!
Check out Bodo, SK near provost :)
OK I will
Ruthilda still has a ball tournament once a year in July
Oh wow! That is great!
Where was corner gas filmed
Rouleau, SK
Have you ever checked out Laporte as well?
Yes, I was susprised almost all the old buildings are now gone. That used to be a great ghost town.
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I would love to have that truck on the cover of this video
The houses that are abandoned & not posted as "NO TRESPASSING" signs, I would guess are likely now provincial or county property......would you agree or do you know how that works in Sask. ?
Sometimes the RM owns them, but a lof of time someone still pays the taxes and owns the land.
Nice video. Best wishes from Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇲
Thank you! You too!
Once the trains leave the towns die. My Dad was a depot agent in CO and saved the grain trains from being removed to another location on this section of the Union Pacific. He was the last Depot agent. Now it is a major Wheat distribution center. He is 93 years old. The depot is gone as computers took over many jobs in the past 30 years. New highways and city jobs took people off their land all planned by the government for more control of the population. Very sad days are ahead of us if we can't grow our own food they also are taking control of by new regulations over water uses.
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it was not a Greyhound bus stop. STC.Saskatchewan Transportation Company
Where are the cemeteries?😊
Mostly outside of town.
Is the WWII bomb shelter still in the basement of that house in Eatonia?
I did not know about this
@@attrell it’s in the basement of that house in your video
Who owns all the land around these towns
Locals mostly, but in some cases the RM.
What do these people do for a living. I thought SW was grain country . Where is the grain. Did I miss something looking at the video and not recognized what I see. Or was the agriculture shut down . Also dirt streets. How primitive.
Also. I believe theses places will never come back. Agriculture very highly mechanized don't need that many people. I don't understand why anyone wants to live here. Snow. Lived in Michigan when global warming wasn't as bad as it is now. Winter could last 5 months. I don't know how Canadian feels about this type if winter. But I believe mist Americans live in okaces that are snow free or where can deal with snow the mickey miusecway like New York. And there are 2 places in Canada almost like thst Vancouver BC and Victoria BC. Anither problem is reberse racism. The USA isn't quite there yet nationwide butvwill soon be majority nonwhite. Non whites would be sfraid of SW too many cinservative white people. This place car dependent. Gen z is screwed will have to live the car free NYC way in the future. You can't expect people who ghink that wayvto be interested in an autokind car dependent society.😮
With all the people breaking into old homesteads and towns stealing items you shouldn’t mention the names and give locations. A small town by where I live someone stole the old gas pumps and doing something like that is not people under 20.
So take videos they are great but leave out names and locations.
Nobody in an abandoned town is going to prosecute you for going into an abandoned building to take pictures. What does the interior of a grain elevator look like? There are enough abandoned ones around. There is no in depth information in your videos. Just the exterior of a lot of rotten buildings. Talk to residents that are still there, include them in your videos to make it interesting.
No, but you might find yourself looking down the barrel of a loaded rifle or shotgun if they come across you inside their private property poking around.
I know we had ALL OUR ancient family Coil Oil Lamps taken by people who were supposed to be" Just taking pictures!"
You see your stuff being sold for a pretty penny in antique stores and websites.
Like our books, old pictures, and frames.
Mirrors.
Furniture.
Depression glass, dishes.
Even Fireplace mantles ripped right off the walls!
Plus, if the building collapsed or the people fell through the rotting wood floors.
Then, the intruders would need to be rescued and might even try to sue or press charges.
So I'd be respecting the KEEP OUT PRIVATE PROPERTY signs.
Plus, the NO SMOKING signs.
Because they DO mean what they say!
So KEEP OUT it's not OKAY!😮😢
Do you have your own videos ? If not, shut up, and if you don't like it, don't watch it
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Are you talking to me or the Robert person who made the 1st comment here?
He is someone who I also left a comment for because he said he didn't think the owners would be a problem if you broke into these PRIVATE PROPERTIES to take pictures!