Crichton, Saskatchewan
Crichton | |
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Unincorporated community | |
Location of Crichton in Saskatchewan | |
Coordinates: 49°25′55″N 107°31′23″W / 49.432°N 107.523°WCoordinates: 49°25′55″N 107°31′23″W / 49.432°N 107.523°W | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Saskatchewan |
Region | Saskatchewan |
Census division | 4 |
Rural Municipality | Wise Creek |
Established | 1909 |
Incorporated (Village) | N/A |
Incorporated (Town) | N/A |
Government | |
• Governing body | Wise Creek No. 77 |
Population (2008) | |
• Total | 1 |
Postal code | S0N 2G0 |
Area code(s) | 306 |
Highways | Highway 13 |
Waterways | Bull Creek |
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Crichton is an unincorporated community in the southwest region of Saskatchewan, Canada, and is located between Admiral and Cadillac on the Red Coat Trail also known as highway 13, like so many towns along the Red Coat Trail, Crichton has become a ghost town with only one family remaining and many empty buildings scattered throughout the town site.
History
On July 25 to 29, 1913 a survey began by a man named David Townsend from Calgary, Alberta plotting out the new community. Residents of the community decided that the name of their community should be named after "Crichton" a Scottish poet and scholar, James Crichton born in Perthshire in 1560.
During its day as an incorporated settlement, Crichton had three grain elevators all have been torn down, a school that has been moved to a nearby bible camp, a café and pool hall, a garage that still stand on main street, boarding house, a blacksmith shop, lumberyard, post office, livery barn, water tower torn down in the 1960s, and a large warehouse attached to the general store. There was even a golf course and tennis courts built for the community, as well as a baseball diamond near the school site. Today Crichton has one resident, and a few scattered buildings sitting abandoned.
See also
References
- ↑ National Archives, Archivia Net, Post Offices and Postmasters, archived from the original on October 6, 2006
- ↑ Government of Saskatchewan, MRD Home, Municipal Directory System, archived from the original (– Scholar search) on November 21, 2008
- ↑ Canadian Textiles Institute. (2005), CTI Determine your provincial constituency, archived from the original on 2007-09-11
- ↑ Commissioner of Canada Elections, Chief Electoral Officer of Canada (2005), Elections Canada On-line, archived from the original on April 21, 2007
External links
- Crichton Saskatchewan Ghost towns by Johnnie Bachusky
- Ghost Towns Canada
- Saskatchewan City & Town Maps
- Saskatchewan Gen Web - One Room School Project
- Post Offices and Postmasters - ArchiviaNet - Library and Archives Canada
- Saskatchewan Gen Web Region
- Online Historical Map Digitization Project
- GeoNames Query
- Saskatchewan Cemetery Records
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