No Hoss or Little Joe

Located here:

49.417984, -109.764875

This is where you can easily imagine encountering someone on horseback.

Not far from Govenlock, Saskatchewan

Is the ghost town of Vidora. Across the road from this is a house with a post office sign that looks like someone lives there and I have read that Vidora currently has a population of one. This is what largely remains of the town itself that once had a population of two hundred. There is one building and the town vault.

Ghost town Saskatchewan

Govenlock, Saskatchewan August 22, 2021.

This is the highway that runs by it. From here it is about twenty minutes to the US border. At one time Govenlock had a train station, a few grain elevators, two general stores, a service station selling Fords, a hotel, and various other business. It was thriving during prohibition. Four warehouses were filled with alcohol to supply bootleggers from the States. Over time the town dwindled down to nothing.

All that is left is the hall and some markers note the place.

There are post office boxes. If you look in every direction you do not see much civilization so someone has to do a bit of travel to get their mail. 

The horizontal line is the old rail line.

Some foundations behind the fence.

Just barely up the road is where an old school once stood. Nothing but empty prairie around.

Cypress Hills, Alberta

 

Robsart, Saskatchewan

Robsart is a ghost town and worth seeing. I posted it from prior visits. This is the old hospital building posted below.

When I was there I ran across some other people taking a road trip. One of them had parents that lived in Robsart many years ago and she was showing some of her family some family history.

I found out someone owns three buildings in Robsart with the dream of setting up a yoga retreat. Robsart is in the middle of nowhere so whoever it is I wish them luck. I imagine they got the real estate cheap.