Talk:List of ghost towns in Saskatchewan

Ghost towns
The railways would not build across the western frontier without settlement as it would be too costly to provide train service across a barren wilderness. The Clifford Sifton immigration policy encourage settlers to arrive. Western settlement began and immigration encroached across the Manitoba border into the North West Territories later to become Saskatchewan. Rail stations, post offices, schools and towns sprang up approximately 6 mi to 10 mi apart to accommodate ox and cart as well as horse and wagon travel. As travel evolved to automobiles, there was no longer a need for centers 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 Saskatchewan Highway 16 was straightened and developed into the Yellowhead, many of the bypassed towns and villages folded. Businesses set up shop in towns on the highway, and children could be bussed to composite schools in the larger centers. The following placenames may exist only as commemorative road names which intersect the current Yellowhead and have disappeared altogether or they may be unincorporated areas of the RM. Such as Floral, the birthplace of Gordie Howe. Floral would be currently located off the Yellowhead 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 socials. 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 centers.

ghost town definition
The article says "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 some natural resource" What is the basis for this definition? It does not exactly match the meaning found in Ghost towns, nor is there any citation for this present extended definition and the presence in the table of towns that have more than 0 people. Hmains (talk) 19:17, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * "Locality (LOC) refers to the historical place names of former census subdivisions (municipalities), former designated places and former urban areas, as well as to the names of other entities, such as neighbourhoods, post offices, communities and unincorporated places." - from Statistics Canada

"Hamlets form part of, and are governed by, a rural municipality. A hamlet must contain at least 5 homes and 10 subdivided lots with a mean area under 1 acre (0.4047 ha). Hamlets have no formal boundaries other than the subdivided lot or property lines and, as such, are not recognized as municipal entities." Establish Organized Hamlets Municipal Affairs

According to page 323 in the Atlas of Saskatchewan Celebrating the Millenium Edition, a hamlet has a population less than 100, a Locality comprises less than 10 persons, a Post Office classification for a place name designates a locality consisting of just the post office, and a railway point is also a place name consisting of just the siding, or junction typically without population. A village has over 100 but less than 500 needed for town status.

An indicator of the classification's current designation would be to look up the place name on the1996, 2001, or 2006 Statistics Canada community profiles, or the Saskatchewan Municipal Directory System. If it is a village, it will be listed as village, if an unincorporated area, it will come up as the RM name, and enumerated and classified as a portion of the Rural Municipality without a government of its own. SriMesh | talk  19:34, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Location
In Saskatchewan, it may be wise to consider a column titled legal land description for the location, as the Canadian Archives, archivia net web site post masters and post offices will give the exact location in Section, township, range and meridian. Natural Resources Canada > Earth Sciences Sector > Priorities > Mapping Services Branch > Geographical Names of Canada will provide latitude and longitude, but not oft times of historical locations. Search Saskatchewan Placenames will provide both historical and current places of Saskatchewan, and comparison to current maps will provide a clue to historical places and present day ones. The webmaster of this site can provide locations and sources on request.SriMesh | talk  19:34, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

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