Having lived in southern Saskatchewan and seen most of these towns in the mid sixties this really makes me so very heart broken to see this today. The years have taken their toll, life is forever changing. We are only left with fond memories of a the beautiful time we had ... never to come back but forever grateful. Really enjoyed your visits.

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@palco22

9 ай бұрын

@@attrell 👍

The highlight of the video for me was all the old churches. They were beautiful whether restored or abandoned.

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

me too!

The Horizon Church is used by the Ogema railway tour for their meal offering. Highly recommend! It was some of the best brisket I've ever had!

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Wow I did not know that! One day I will try that train.

I enjoyed the video and gave it a 👍🏼 , as someone who drove a 18 wheeler for 42 years I loved drivings through Northeastern US and Atlantic Canada especially late at night on those old lonesome roads and especially during a snowstorm ! I lived in a town of only a few hundred folks during the 1980’s & 90’s so thanks for the tour of Saskatchewan ghost towns ! Keep up the great work !

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

I’m a BC girl so is cool to see you beautiful little prairie towns.

In the 80s we lived in de Sask. and one Sunday we took a ride into the sw corner of Moose Mtn Prov Ark. we came upon an old school house. As there wasn’t a no trespassing notice we ventured. There were still old desks and amazingly many school books. Upon examination we discover that many of them were from Ontario School Districts. No doubt they were sent during the 30s Great Depression as Sask schools couldn’t often pay the Teachers let alone buy books. Everyone interested in Sask history during that period should read Max Braithwaite’s book “Why Shoot the Teacher” as it’s a true journal of teaching in one room school’s during the depression.

@davepaisley7675

Ай бұрын

Crazy story, I think you're talking about Carrington Manor. The unofficial story is much better than the official story...

My family lived in Kayville in the early to mid-20th century. Everyone there was Romanian - that area housed the largest Romanian population in Canada for a long time. Hundreds of folks lived there, and thousands around that part of the province.

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

I didn't know what. Thank you!

Thank you for showcasing my stomping grounds. Khedive and Kayville both hold a special place in my heart, through the history of both sides of my family.

@attrell

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Chris, I always find your videos are very grounding/humbling. It doesn't take much to realize how nature provides for us but she also takes things back after humans have left them untouched; especially with the weather extremes here in SK!

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you

The winters in Saskatchewan can be downright spiritual, and BRUTAL. (To understand Canada, see her in January. And no, Canada is NOT Ottawa nowadays.)

@kurtfuchs4500

8 ай бұрын

Over the last couple years the winters have been mild compared to when I was a kid. So it’s not as bad now

@jesseredden7123

10 күн бұрын

Sorry but I would take Ottawa over any city in Saskatchewan.

Beautiful images. The vast expanses of fields that meet the horizon line, the colors of the landscape, and the Saskatchewan skies! Everything brought me back 63 years to my childhood in Melville. Thank you for the reigniting the fond memories.

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Many thanks!

I loved some of the places here, great for landscape photography helped by the wide open spaces. 👍

I’ve lived here almost all my life, but this video and all the beauty you showcase here really hit me. Like too many my age growing up in the city, I’ve taken all but the living skies for granted, now I’m so intrigued to see my province and feels like I now truly appreciate it

@attrell

5 күн бұрын

Lots to see, glad you enjoyed it!

How do you not have a million subs? Great footage, tons of history, and you respect ownership. Fantastic.

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you!

Another awesome video! My mom used to live in Kayville and Crane Valley, we drove down around there about 2 years ago, I was blown away with how cool everything was to look at

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

When big farms buy up small farms, towns disappear because the people have left the area. I have always said that many people make a community.

i love to go such places where abandoned things whispers telling their stories what they ve been through !

I must be nuts, because I see great possibilities for homesteading in all of these places. Good soil and some water is all you really need.

@weird-history-and-odd-news

4 ай бұрын

Sadly, most of the smaller farms and land have been bought out by larger farms or taken over by corporations. You used to see a farm or two every couple miles, I was there driving around last year and now it's one every 5 miles, and often no one lives there anymore, the yards are full of granaries. That's what happened to the farm where I grew up, the farms where my grandparents and cousins and friends lived, and around the town just 7 miles away. There are a few small hamlets and villages that are being populated again, by people who just want to get out of the cities. No kids though, schools are too few and far between, now. You have to be either financially able, or if you have to work, work remotely. In the little hamlet I stayed in (a friend's summer property) all the good wells were dried up and the ones that were left were sulfur water, so all of the 15 people who lived in the hamlet had a rainwater catchment system and a water treatment unit for the well water. It's definitely do-able but takes a bit of work to get settled once you find a place.

Dust to dust. This video made me long for the days when I could explore Canada's backroads. I loved it.

Hi from Coronation, Alberta. I grew up in Carrot River, Sask. I surely enjoyed the video of abanded towns in the Regina area. Beloved flat Saskatchewan!! Love it!

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

I love your adventures to these old towns. I just imagine what they were like in their heyday. Great video

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

According to Microsoft Pilot, Bromhead was named for James Bromhead but also refers to Lt. Gonville Bromhead, who received the Victoria Cross for his heroism at the battle of Rorke's Drift, in the Anglo Zulu War.

This is a great video Chris. Very interesting to tour these abandoned towns with you and hopefully one day I can go visit some of them myself.

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Really good video! I love exploring abandoned houses!!

I thought I was going to hear ghost stories. Nice to see what’s left of some of the towns

This was great. My family originated from southern sk. It was always heaven to be down in that area visiting the relatives. We were so fortunate to experience this growing up. A sense of freedom lost in the world today. Thankyou for the video.

@attrell

21 күн бұрын

Thank you!

Amazing places you have visited Chris and many many thanks for sharing these beutiful gems with us all' And once again I really enjoy all your work and whatever you bring us.... Best 73s from the uk.... 😊❤

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Many thanks

I know a lot of these towns these are great videos I still live near a lot of them. It’s very sad and neat to see where the people and families started out. I wish they were still full of people.

I wanna move back so bad and live in one of these wide-open spaces with no neighbours, ha! The only town I recognized was Froude (frowd) and I’m sad to see there’s only 1 family left now.

Thanks for sharing the highlights of your tour.

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Absolutely fascinating, thank you for this time capsule.

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Chris, I took the photography course with you last year in Moose Jaw. Just wanted to say thanks for all the awesome work you put into supporting us

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

Great video. I have been to Gailee, Dummer, Horizon and Bromhead. I found the old church by chance one day. You right it’s in the middle of nowhere! Sad to see the old buildings are gone in Dummer. I also thought it was kind of cool how Gailee is divide by the highway. I did take at the old store. If I remember correctly there is a old cairn around there somewhere for the school. However I have to say not all these places are ghost towns as people still live in a few of them.

@attrell

8 ай бұрын

Yeah it's a bummer about Dummer :(

Artistically interesting! ❤️❤️❤️

Very cool. I was just in this area this summer but overlooked most of what you showed here, so I will have to do another trip I guess.

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Hope you do!

Its from video's like this that these places manage to cling to some life. Thanks for your expose'

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Fascinating history. I really love Saskatchewan, the home of my formative years.

I found your channel a few days ago." Wow, what do you say...! Great footage..., enjoy very much, especially, the narrations. New Sub

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

I'd really love to visit all these places! Sadly i don't live this close to Saskatchewan. Really enjoyed this trip.

Awesome video. That last church is fantastic.

@attrell

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Drummer: "It was so depressing seeing it like this, that I just kept going" I see you've been talking to people that know me. 🤣

Thank you. I really enjoyed watching your video.

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Really nice to see this. Shows you how fragile small towns can be. Ghosts of the past now.

@attrell

21 күн бұрын

Thanks!

lotta these towns were places we went to for parts, fuel, food and sundries back when I was a farm kid in the 60's and 70's. Visited a few in the last several years and it is kinda heartbreaking to see the demise. But there is a certain beauty in abandonment. And if you remember the place as it was well, there may be some emotion. And a bunch of towns managed to hang on. Small towns are not yet dead.

Gotta love the contrast of beauty

Another great video! You keep outdoing yourself.

@attrell

7 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Sad to see all these buildings being removed. I’m from Kenaston Saskatchewan and they are currently dismantling the 3 original wood elevators.

@attrell

8 ай бұрын

Wow all 3? That is bad news!

Nice video. Many thanks for posting

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Thank you too

I used to delivery Dry Cleaning for Bregg Cleaners and Furriers to there once a week for a long time as part of my southern swing through all the small towns!

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

That's terrific! the sign was in better shape in 2009.

So beautiful.....looks like home.

Wonderful coverage, I'm thinking of moving out that way for work and well its so nice there.

@attrell

4 ай бұрын

You should!

I find it so depressing. Where I grew up they don't even have sports days in all the towns and individual old rural one room schools that were dotted everywhere. I doubt anyone even keeps them up anymore. I don't know what the kids that still exist in my old stomping grounds do. In summer I played ball, dances and weddings, went to the lakes in the Qu'Appelle Valley, e plowed backroads and Turkey trails, bush parties (doubt those exist) drive in movies, I know that doesn't exist. Winter was skiing, from broomball curling, skating you name it. As long as I could get off the farm I did it, including school and work of course. It's just sad now. Last time I went to the farm somehow I knew it would be the last. I'm sure there are now more ghost towns that living ones now. To me it's depressing and sad, I don't see anything beautiful in death of an entire province.

@attrell

21 күн бұрын

People are moving back

This was so amazing to watch!! Would like to see one done in the Bateman St Boswells area🙏

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Maybe one day!

My dad was born in Goodeve Sask. Still going but shrinking. An interesting fact is that all the towns on that CN line were named alphabeticaly. Some towns are gone now. The ones i remember are Goodeve, Hubbard, Ituna, Jetburg, and Keller. Ive probably spelled some of them wrong. I love the area and have many fond memories of my times on the family farms there

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

I been to all of them!

@cynthiapady9475

Ай бұрын

my mother in law grew up in goodeve i remember her talking about the goodeve giants baseball team

Wow thanks 😊 that was really great 👍🏻

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Spent a lot of my childhood summers in Oxbow southeast Saskatchewan where my maternal grandparents lived and ran the Hotel there.

It is absolutely stunning out there love to do what your doing here in Ontario it very condensed I am in Windsor Ont keep up the great videos 😁👍🏻

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Kayville looks, feels, and IS a much better town than tens of thousands of towns populated and mismanaged by an undetermined specie of human that can¨t think straight. This town is clean, tidy, and there is evidence that the people care for it.

Thanks for taking the time to do these wonderful videos, great job as always!

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

wow, watching this video makes me sad as I grew up in rural Sk during the 50's and 60's...left after joining the military in 1963. I did return to Hodgeville often during leave and this town is still there but fading with a population of around 80. Nearby towns such as Bateman and Kelstern are now the same as in this video. In fact, when I last visited and took a trip over to Kelstern, there was nothing left other than a small community center. Just a suggestion to Chris Attrell, you might want to visit the Hodgeville area and do up a video of the various towns that are fading fast, Other ones are Flowing Well (no longer there), Neidpath, Shamrock, Saint Boswells, Dendron, Hollinquest, Braddock, and many others. A long time ago, these communities were busy little centers.....btw, thank you for doing these videos.......

@attrell

21 күн бұрын

THanks! On my way this week actually, I been to all those places before.

Great video!! I lived in Rockglen, SK, just above the US border, south of Regina back in 1980-81

@attrell

3 ай бұрын

I like that town!

Awesome i worked all over the Bakken in the Southeast around Oxbow out of Alida, i lived in Redvers, Whitewood and Moosomin

That was a cool ending. Well done

@attrell

5 ай бұрын

THank you!

I really enjoyed watching your video. You are a great narrator. I'm curious if you have any ghost town video on Bateman, SK?

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Thanks. And no yet, but eventually.

Really enjoyed this, in a bummer kinda way... When I saw 'Hawke,' I got what movie you'd been speaking of. I just love my growin-up province... want to move back. Or do I.

I loved searching through abandoned houses in saskatchewan with my mom dad and brother in the 80s. My great grandma had an abandoned farm in Hepburn Sask that was scheduled for fire fighter practice in the 90s. Probably gone now. But I got to see it before it was gone :_ Thanks for sharing. Neat lfashbacks

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Froude - rhymes with "proud".

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Great video. Will you be doing one for the ghost towns on the west side of Last Mountain Lake? Places like Kedleston, Penzance and Amazon.

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Possibly!

Kayville has a huge history and was an important place for people that immigrated from Romania. Their Greek Orthodox denomination is central to Kayville. This was the town that Hazen Argue used as a home riding. He was the federal leader of the CCF (precursor of the NDP). Google him.

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing!

@barryposner7609

9 ай бұрын

About 40 years ago I had a landlord who was from Kayville. His mother tongue was Romanian, he didn't learn English until he started school at 7. He had a heavy Romanian accent, despite the fact that he was born and raised in Saskatchewan.

@waynegalvin4639

9 ай бұрын

@@barryposner7609see if you can find the book “Romanians in Canada “ and give it a read.

@bartdaw6681

9 ай бұрын

@@barryposner7609 there were lots of people in Kayville that were of Romanian descent. They came to Canada to better themselves and most never looked back there is a book “Romanians in Canada” written by a lady in Regina and she documents their community. Some Romanians moved to Canada from North Dakota and settled in southern Saskatchewan. They were located from Assiniboia , Wood Mountain and north to Avonlea. Was their name Majoran?

@barryposner7609

9 ай бұрын

@@bartdaw6681 No, the name was Petrescu.

hey Chris.. fine video!

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Great video!

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Excellent.

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Many thanks!

Former Queen City kid...that is a good tour ...thanks

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

What a cool look at Ghost Towns. Some wooden buildings look like they're from the Wild West. Cowboy Timber.

Chris you inspire me to cross the pond and visit friends in Canada, it would be remiss of me not to visit these towns as I'm sure it would leave a lasting impression on me. Thank you for your efforts.

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

That was dope, guess it gets so cold up there no ones there.

❤very interesting

⭐️⭐️Missed Tiny‼️‼️

@attrell

Күн бұрын

I'll check it out

Amazing and beautiful. Never see it in Holland 9:11

Good video. Greetings from Alberta.

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

My family use to live in Horizon and Bengough. Neat to see Horizon.

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

One of my fav towns, first visited in 2004

Thanks !

The hawke and co elevator was in the movie revenge of the land i worked on that movie.

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Oh wow thanks for letting me know.

My mother was born in Hearne Sask. in 1915. The church was gone but there was a plaque when I visited a few years ago.

@paulandmarilynarmstrong

9 ай бұрын

The house was there and the cemetery where Mom’s uncle was buried. He does from the Spanish flu.

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

I was there in 2008! I should go back and visit!

I work just outside Bayard Saskatchewan on a farm 🚜 for Blaine Gross .He owns a Werehouse in Bayard Saskatchewan with stuff dating back the 70s? I work as labor for farmers around there .

@dennisrunzer753

9 ай бұрын

Ask Blain Gross if he is related to Thomas Gross.

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

I think I drove past that! Was going to chat with the person working out front but he seemed busy.

Mazenod would be a good one to do. Family had a farm just a few minutes south. Lots of summers spent there in the 90s as a kid, I doubt 25+ people live there back then. Haven't been in that area in a good 10 years. Cool town/hamlet though.

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

I was there in 2006 when it had a ghost town vibe to the place. Now they cleaned it up and it looks nice. I should add it to next video.

Looks like the old Christ Lutheran Church near Francis, but I remember it being more east than north. The congregation built a new building on the east side of Francis in the 1950s.

@attrell

28 күн бұрын

It is both north and east.

very cool video

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Bear Creek miner ghost town from the goldrush era near dawson city in the yukon, youd love it

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

I will be in Yukon at some point.

The problems is lots town close due railroad remove track and grain elevator close.i did pipeline 2000-1 for alliance pipelines saw town dying sad the work help little bit but after close yes.the land very nice and look after but haul grain away on huge grain terminal.sad.thanks video.😮

I lived in Northgate Sask in the 50's and early 60's. I believe the 1 room school house I attended is still standing.

I wanted to go to Lashburn this summer but plans changed so i will try again in 2024, my Dad, Roy Jones grew up there. When he was alive i kept asking him if he wanted to do a road trip back to Lashburn, but he always recoiled in horror, i know he had a rough childhood, no money, no food alot of the time, his father left to work in the mines but never returned, started a new family and then died in a car accident. Sad stories from the past.

@HemiJB91

9 ай бұрын

Whats in ladburn ?

You should visit Fir Mountain sk. It has the last 'one room' school house that was operated in Sask. School closed for good in 1986 and had grades 1-4 with 10 kids and one teacher.

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

I will do that! Thanks!

did you put a light in the windows of the very last church? nice shot

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Yes I did! Thank you!

7:05 an old toilet house was blown down by that hurricane, in 1949 it is almost unbelievable.

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Oh wow!

Wow, i went to school in Crane Valley in the 80s, attended VBS in that community hall, got a black eye on that ball diamond. I still have family farming in the area. Did you make it out to Ormiston?

@attrell

5 күн бұрын

Not on this trip, I should go see it again this summer.

I put this great video on my facebook,

@attrell

9 ай бұрын

Awesome thank you!

I love all those empty churches. We're getting there.

Fr Toronto ❤ beautiful towns the public should be inhabit .it why then life an living was just starting out .

Years ago I lived in New Zealand and I worked with a girl who was from near this place.