Hoosier is a unincorporated

Unincorporated area

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...

 hamlet

Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...

 in Antelope Park Rural Municipality No. 322

Antelope Park No. 322, Saskatchewan

Antelope Park No. 322 is a rural municipality in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, located in the Census Division 13. The municipality was established on December 11, 1911 in west-central Saskatchewan, Canada on the Alberta - Saskatchewan border. Antelope Park No...

, 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

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. The hamlet is approximately 40 km north west of the Town of Kindersley

Kindersley, Saskatchewan

Kindersley is a town in west central Saskatchewan, Canada, located at Section 10, Township 29, Range 23, West of the 3rd Meridian, along highway 7, a primary highway linking Calgary, Alberta and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan...

 at the intersection of Highway 317

Saskatchewan Highway 317

Highway 317 is a highway in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It runs from Highway 7 near Primate. Highway 317 is about 96 km long.-Intersections from south to north:...

 and Highway 772

Saskatchewan Highway 772

Highway 772 is a highway in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It runs from Highway 317 near Hoosier to Highway 307 near Smiley. Highway 772 is about 20 km long.Highway 772 also passes near the community of Dewar Lake....

. The Canadian Pacific Railway

Canadian Pacific Railway

The Canadian Pacific Railway , formerly also known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a historic Canadian Class I railway founded in 1881 and now operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001...

 played a big role in the towns economy when it was completed in 1913 in the early years of Hoosier's history. Due to the closure of branch line

Branch line

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 in 1981 the tracks from Dodsland

Dodsland, Saskatchewan

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 to Hoosier were pulled and the last of the communities grain elevator

Grain elevator

A grain elevator is a tower containing a bucket elevator, which scoops up, elevates, and then uses gravity to deposit grain in a silo or other storage facility...

s was demolished causing Hoosier's population to decline.

External links

• Prairie Sod to Golden Acres : History of Hoosier District