List of ghost towns in Saskatchewan

Railways would not build across the western frontier without settlement as it would be too costly to provide train service across a barren wilderness.

[3] Western settlement began and immigration encroached across the Manitoba border into the North-West Territories later to become the Province of Saskatchewan in 1905.

Businesses set up shop in towns on the new straightened highway,[6] and children could be bused to composite schools in the larger centres.

The following placenames may exist only as commemorative road names which intersect the current highways and have disappeared altogether or they may be unincorporated areas of the Rural Municipality|RM such as Floral, the birthplace of Gordie Howe.

The RM administers the remaining population of the ghost town providing any needed civic infrastructure, safety, health, educational, or tourism affairs.