Expanse, Saskatchewan is an

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in the Rural Municipality of Lake Johnston No. 102, in the

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. Expanse is just south of

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on a grid road. The grid connects to Highway 2 near Ardill in south central Saskatchewan. Just to the south of Highway 2 is Lake of the Rivers. Expanse is too small to be enumerated as a separate entity during the census taking, so it was a part of the population given for RM of Lake Johnston No. 102. Today the former community school, a private residence, a

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and a few

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are all that remain of Expanse's prosperous

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days.

History

The post office was formed on September 1, 1908, under the name Lake Johnston with postmaster Frank E. Crosby and was located at Sec.12, Twp.12, R.29, W of the 2nd meridian. A. S. MacDonald was the successor on May 1, 1912, and the post office now changed names to Expanse. ''Taken from the town's Historical marker, erected in 1994 by the Rural municipality of Johnston Lake and the Saskatchewan History & Folklore Society Inc.:''

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purchased the townsite in 1911 and named it Expanse. Incorporated as a village in 1912, the first village meeting was held January 7, 1913. Expanse was the fifth town on the CPR line south of the city of

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. It was the end of the CPR track for the south part of the province from July 1912 until 1914. As an "end of Track" Boom Town,

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got supplies and brought grain to Expanse from as far south as the United States border. Expanse was disorganized as a village in 1935.

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*Lake Johnston—Sutton Historical Society; {{authority control Former villages in Saskatchewan Unincorporated communities in Saskatchewan Populated places established in 1912 Ghost towns in Saskatchewan Lake Johnston No. 102, Saskatchewan 1912 establishments in Saskatchewan Division No. 3, Saskatchewan

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