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Elswick is a
ghost town A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economi ...
in Cymri Rural Municipality,
Saskatchewan Saskatchewan is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada. It is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the ...
, Canada. The town site was on the
Canadian Northern Railway The Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) was a historic Canada, Canadian transcontinental railway. At its 1923 merger into the Canadian National Railway , the CNoR owned a main line between Quebec City and Vancouver via Ottawa, Winnipeg, and Edmonto ...
line from
Lampman Lampman is a town of around 673 people in the south-east part of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, roughly 30 miles north-east of Estevan. To the north-west of Lampman, is Lake Roy, which is a shallow lake that often floods into town. ...
to Radville. The town had a box-car train station, grain elevator, small store and post office. The town site was abandoned by the railway in 1927 and the rail-line abandoned in 1951.


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List of communities in Saskatchewan Communities in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, include Incorporation (municipal government), incorporated municipalities, Unincorporated area#Canada, unincorporated communities and First Nations in Canada, First Nations communities. Types ...
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List of hamlets in Saskatchewan In most cases in Saskatchewan, a hamlet is an unincorporated community with at least five occupied dwellings situated on separate lots and at least 10 separate lots, the majority of which are an average size of less than one acre. Saskatchewan ha ...
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Lists of ghost towns in Canada This is a list of lists of ghost towns in Canada. A ghost town is a town that once had a considerable population, that has since dwindled in numbers causing some or all its business to close, either due to the rerouting of a highway, train tracks ...
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List of ghost towns in Saskatchewan The following is a list of communities that no longer exist or former Villages/Towns that have become unincorporated hamlets in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. Ghost towns are towns that once had a considerable population, that have since ...


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Cymri No. 36, Saskatchewan Unincorporated communities in Saskatchewan Ghost towns in Saskatchewan Division No. 2, Saskatchewan {{SKDivision2-geo-stub