Cantuar, Saskatchewan
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Cantuar is a ghost town
Ghost town
A ghost town is an abandoned town or city. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as floods, government actions, uncontrolled lawlessness, war, or nuclear disasters...
in Swift Current Rural Municipality
Swift Current No. 137, Saskatchewan
Swift Current No. 137, Saskatchewan is a rural municipality of 1,587 residents in the southwestern part of Saskatchewan, Canada. It comprises the rural area that surrounds the city of Swift Current. The RM was incorporated December 12, 1910...
, Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. The site is still used as a freight station by the Great Sandhills Railway
Great Sandhills Railway
The Great Sandhills Railway is a Canadian short line railway company operating on trackage in west of Swift Current Saskatchewan, established in 2009. Great Sandhills Railway operates a short-line railways in Saskatchewan on a former Canadian Pacific Railway subdivision...
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See also
- List of communities in Saskatchewan
- Hamlets of SaskatchewanHamlets of SaskatchewanHamlets are designated by the council of a municipal district or county when a community has a generally accepted name and boundary. Hamlets can contain non-residential areas within their boundaries, and are administered by the municipal districts...
- List of ghost towns in Canada
- Ghost towns in SaskatchewanGhost towns in SaskatchewanThe 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....