Alticane
is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in the
Rural Municipality of Douglas No. 436,
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.
Alticane was established in 1928 on the new
Canadian National Railway
The Canadian National Railway Company () is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.
CN is Canada's largest railway, in terms of both revenue a ...
branch line that ran between
Speers and
Mayfair
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. In that year, the area post office, run by Mr. McKye, was moved from its previous location south-west to the new location near the branch line, bringing the post office's name to the new town. Alticane was named after Mr. McKye's home town in Scotland.
The town contained a Saskatchewan Pool grain elevator which has since been dismantled. The abandoned CNR branch line was also removed around 2015. Alticane is now considered a ghost town with approximately one dozen abandoned houses remaining. A cairn can be seen at the entrance to the town that commemorates the 70th (1998) reunion of the residents.
See also
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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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Crooked Trees
The Crooked Trees, Crooked Bush, Twisted Trees, or the Crooked Trees of Alticane are a grove of deformed trembling aspen trees of type ''Populus tremuloides Michx.'' found in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. They are approximately nort ...
References
External links
Photo gallery at Ghost Towns Canada
Douglas No. 436, Saskatchewan
Unincorporated communities in Saskatchewan
Division No. 16, Saskatchewan
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