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[edit] Saskatchewan Highway 16
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[edit] Ghost towns
The railways would not build across the western frontier without settlement as it would be too costly to provide train service across a barren wilderness.[1] The Clifford Sifton immigration policy encourage settlers to arrive.[2] Western settlement began and immigration encroached across the Manitoba border into the North West Territories later to become Saskatchewan. Rail stations, post offices, schools and towns sprang up approximately 6 miles (9.66 kilometres) to 10 miles (16.09 kilometres) apart to accommodate ox and cart as well as horse and wagon travel.[3][4] As travel evolved to automobiles, there was no longer a need for centers this close together. In the 1940s when the highway became more popular, and the rail branch lines started to close down, saw the demise of sidings and villages located on the rail line but not on the highway. In the late 1950s and 1960s when Saskatchewan Highway 16 was straightened and developed into the Yellowhead, many of the bypassed towns and villages folded. Businesses set up shop in towns on the highway,[5] and children could be bussed to composite schools in the larger centers. The following placenames may exist only as commemorative road names which intersect the current Yellowhead and have disappeared altogether or they may be unincorporated areas of the RM. Such as Floral, the birthplace of Gordie Howe. Floral would be currently located off the Yellowhead but it was on Provincial Highway 5 when the road was on the square. Floral currently is demarked by an old church at the Floral cemetery, and the Floral one room school is now the community hall for meetings and socials. The only remembrance of Floral is a road named Floral road. The road travelled on the 'square' connecting many small country towns was a different one from the highway of today connecting larger urban centers.
| Unincorporated areas | RM |
|---|---|
| Harrowby, Mb | Russell |
| Marchwell | Langenburg No. 181 |
| Rokeby[6] | Wallace No. 243 |
| Chrysler[6] | Wallace No. 243 |
| Orcadia | Orkney No. 244 |
| Patrol[6][4] | |
| Fountain changed names to Tuffnell | |
| Kandahar[7] | Big Quill No. 308 |
| Esk[7] | Prairie Rose No. 309 |
| Jansen[8] | |
| Goudie[6] | Foam Lake No. 276 |
| Mozart [7] | Elfros No. 307 rural municipality[7] |
| Zenith[9] changed names to Wolverine[10] | |
| Sclanders[4] | |
| Henty | |
| Arpiers [7] | Colonsay No. 342 |
| Cheviot[7] | Blucher No. 343 |
| Blucher[7] | Blucher No. 343 |
| Floral[7] | Corman Park No. 344. |
| Lilac[7] | Mayfield No. 406. |
| Roecliffe[4] | |
| Brada | North Battleford No. 437. |
| Highgate[7] | Battle River No. 438. |
| Delmas[7] | Battle River No. 438. |
| Bresaylor | |
| Stirling became Saltcoats | |
| Siding number 5 became Maidstone | |
| Siding number 4 became Waseca | |
| Wirral became Lashburn | |
| Shackleton siding was renamed Fielding | |
| Lucerne siding renamed Ruddell | |
| Stringer Post Office became Marshall[11] | |
| Birling siding[12] | |
| Ozannes siding[13][14] | |
| Aberfeldy[15] |
