Ghost Towns South Of Regina, Saskatchewan

Join me as I visit a handful of ghost towns in the area south of Regina. We visit old school, Churches, grain elevators, homes and much more.
The Church in Kayville with 'Hope' marked on the front is now no trespassing including the land in front.
GPS for Church: 50.16496, -103.75908
00:00 Introduction
00:25 Bayard
01:20 Galilee
02:03 Kayville
03:51 Crane Valley
05:24 Dummer
05:43 Horizon
07:29 Khedive
08:05 Brooking
09:40 Bromhead
11:44 Froude
13:49 Abandoned Church

[@rosiemcnaughton9933]

The highlight of the video for me was all the old churches. They were beautiful whether restored or abandoned.

[@attrell]

me too!

[@palco22]

Having lived in southern Saskatchewan and seen most of these towns in the mid sixties this really makes me so very heart broken to see this today. The years have taken their toll, life is forever changing. We are only left with fond memories of a the beautiful time we had ... never to come back but forever grateful. Really enjoyed your visits.

[@attrell]

Thank you!

[@palco22]

@@attrell 👍

[@DavidMScott-cs8pp]

In the 80s we lived in de Sask. and one Sunday we took a ride into the sw corner of Moose Mtn Prov Ark. we came upon an old school house. As there wasn’t a no trespassing notice we ventured. There were still old desks and amazingly many school books. Upon examination we discover that many of them were from Ontario School Districts. No doubt they were sent during the 30s Great Depression as Sask schools couldn’t often pay the Teachers let alone buy books. Everyone interested in Sask history during that period should read Max Braithwaite’s book “Why Shoot the Teacher” as it’s a true journal of teaching in one room school’s during the depression.

[@davepaisley7675]

Crazy story, I think you're talking about Carrington Manor. The unofficial story is much better than the official story...

[@darcydonovan]

The Horizon Church is used by the Ogema railway tour for their meal offering. Highly recommend! It was some of the best brisket I've ever had!

[@attrell]

Wow I did not know that! One day I will try that train.

[@stevechrisman3185]

Dust to dust. This video made me long for the days when I could explore Canada's backroads. I loved it.

[@central3425]

Really nice to see this. Shows you how fragile small towns can be. Ghosts of the past now.

[@attrell]

Thanks!

[@user-ib2wl4jv8g]

According to Microsoft Pilot, Bromhead was named for James Bromhead but also refers to Lt. Gonville Bromhead, who received the Victoria Cross for his heroism at the battle of Rorke's Drift, in the Anglo Zulu War.

[@jimrossi7708]

I enjoyed the video and gave it a 👍🏼 , as someone who drove a 18 wheeler for 42 years I loved drivings through Northeastern US and Atlantic Canada especially late at night on those old lonesome roads and especially during a snowstorm ! I lived in a town of only a few hundred folks during the 1980’s & 90’s so thanks for the tour of Saskatchewan ghost towns ! Keep up the great work !

[@attrell]

Thanks for sharing!

[@user-gi5hr6or6r]

My family lived in Kayville in the early to mid-20th century. Everyone there was Romanian - that area housed the largest Romanian population in Canada for a long time. Hundreds of folks lived there, and thousands around that part of the province.

[@attrell]

I didn't know what. Thank you!

[@NotLowMusic]

Thank you for showcasing my stomping grounds. Khedive and Kayville both hold a special place in my heart, through the history of both sides of my family.

[@attrell]

Thanks for watching!

[@WizenedVariations1]

The winters in Saskatchewan can be downright spiritual, and BRUTAL. (To understand Canada, see her in January. And no, Canada is NOT Ottawa nowadays.)

[@kurtfuchs4500]

Over the last couple years the winters have been mild compared to when I was a kid. So it’s not as bad now

[@1603shadow]

I’m a BC girl so is cool to see you beautiful little prairie towns.

[@johnscratchley3288]

I loved some of the places here, great for landscape photography helped by the wide open spaces. 👍

[@grantfahlman1815]

Chris, I always find your videos are very grounding/humbling. It doesn't take much to realize how nature provides for us but she also takes things back after humans have left them untouched; especially with the weather extremes here in SK!

[@attrell]

Wow, thank you

[@guyincognito1431]

How do you not have a million subs? Great footage, tons of history, and you respect ownership. Fantastic.

[@attrell]

Wow, thank you!

[@quenuk]

Beautiful images. The vast expanses of fields that meet the horizon line, the colors of the landscape, and the Saskatchewan skies! Everything brought me back 63 years to my childhood in Melville. Thank you for the reigniting the fond memories.

[@attrell]

Many thanks!

[@magcs6233]

Another awesome video! My mom used to live in Kayville and Crane Valley, we drove down around there about 2 years ago, I was blown away with how cool everything was to look at

[@attrell]

Thanks for sharing!

[@TheAsif5182]

i love to go such places where abandoned things whispers telling their stories what they ve been through !

[@momsterzz]

I wanna move back so bad and live in one of these wide-open spaces with no neighbours, ha! The only town I recognized was Froude (frowd) and I’m sad to see there’s only 1 family left now.

[@normpowell3566]

When big farms buy up small farms, towns disappear because the people have left the area. I have always said that many people make a community.

[@user-fq4ut1he9t]

Hi from Coronation, Alberta. I grew up in Carrot River, Sask. I surely enjoyed the video of abanded towns in the Regina area. Beloved flat Saskatchewan!! Love it!

[@attrell]

Thanks for watching!

[@dupreemottley7320]

I love your adventures to these old towns. I just imagine what they were like in their heyday. Great video

[@attrell]

Thank you!

[@somguy728]

I must be nuts, because I see great possibilities for homesteading in all of these places. Good soil and some water is all you really need.

[@weird-history-and-odd-news]

Sadly, most of the smaller farms and land have been bought out by larger farms or taken over by corporations. You used to see a farm or two every couple miles, I was there driving around last year and now it's one every 5 miles, and often no one lives there anymore, the yards are full of granaries. That's what happened to the farm where I grew up, the farms where my grandparents and cousins and friends lived, and around the town just 7 miles away. There are a few small hamlets and villages that are being populated again, by people who just want to get out of the cities. No kids though, schools are too few and far between, now. You have to be either financially able, or if you have to work, work remotely. In the little hamlet I stayed in (a friend's summer property) all the good wells were dried up and the ones that were left were sulfur water, so all of the 15 people who lived in the hamlet had a rainwater catchment system and a water treatment unit for the well water. It's definitely do-able but takes a bit of work to get settled once you find a place.

[@twolder]

This is a great video Chris. Very interesting to tour these abandoned towns with you and hopefully one day I can go visit some of them myself.

[@attrell]

Thank you!

[@kris_ty685]

Really good video! I love exploring abandoned houses!!

[@joannefairhead2403]

This was great. My family originated from southern sk. It was always heaven to be down in that area visiting the relatives. We were so fortunate to experience this growing up. A sense of freedom lost in the world today. Thankyou for the video.

[@attrell]

Thank you!

[@kimberlyfullawka7044]

I thought I was going to hear ghost stories. Nice to see what’s left of some of the towns

[@keith2599]

Amazing places you have visited Chris and many many thanks for sharing these beutiful gems with us all' And once again I really enjoy all your work and whatever you bring us.... Best 73s from the uk.... 😊❤

[@attrell]

Many thanks

[@corystarkiller]

Drummer: "It was so depressing seeing it like this, that I just kept going" I see you've been talking to people that know me. 🤣

[@YouTubeAfshar]

Chris, I took the photography course with you last year in Moose Jaw. Just wanted to say thanks for all the awesome work you put into supporting us

[@attrell]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@theschiznit8777]

Absolutely fascinating, thank you for this time capsule.

[@attrell]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@kurtfuchs4500]

Great video. I have been to Gailee, Dummer, Horizon and Bromhead. I found the old church by chance one day. You right it’s in the middle of nowhere! Sad to see the old buildings are gone in Dummer. I also thought it was kind of cool how Gailee is divide by the highway. I did take at the old store. If I remember correctly there is a old cairn around there somewhere for the school. However I have to say not all these places are ghost towns as people still live in a few of them.

[@attrell]

Yeah it's a bummer about Dummer :(

[@Buzzkill-wn7tf]

lotta these towns were places we went to for parts, fuel, food and sundries back when I was a farm kid in the 60's and 70's. Visited a few in the last several years and it is kinda heartbreaking to see the demise. But there is a certain beauty in abandonment. And if you remember the place as it was well, there may be some emotion. And a bunch of towns managed to hang on. Small towns are not yet dead.

[@Pablo_Del_Norte]

Thanks for sharing the highlights of your tour.

[@attrell]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@jacksonfirby4051]

Sad to see all these buildings being removed. I’m from Kenaston Saskatchewan and they are currently dismantling the 3 original wood elevators.

[@attrell]

Wow all 3? That is bad news!

[@brianhdueck3372]

Fascinating history. I really love Saskatchewan, the home of my formative years.

[@user-fm7ki4zw3t]

Great video, and great narration!! Thanks.

[@attrell]

Thank you too!

[@brucevogel2693]

Its from video's like this that these places manage to cling to some life. Thanks for your expose'

[@attrell]

Thank you!

[@CarswithNash]

Very cool. I was just in this area this summer but overlooked most of what you showed here, so I will have to do another trip I guess.

[@attrell]

Hope you do!

[@davidforeman8347]

I used to delivery Dry Cleaning for Bregg Cleaners and Furriers to there once a week for a long time as part of my southern swing through all the small towns!

[@attrell]

That's terrific! the sign was in better shape in 2009.

[@marty5859]

I found your channel a few days ago." Wow, what do you say...! Great footage..., enjoy very much, especially, the narrations. New Sub

[@attrell]

Thank you very much!

[@MrGlenferd]

My dad was born in Goodeve Sask. Still going but shrinking. An interesting fact is that all the towns on that CN line were named alphabeticaly. Some towns are gone now. The ones i remember are Goodeve, Hubbard, Ituna, Jetburg, and Keller. Ive probably spelled some of them wrong. I love the area and have many fond memories of my times on the family farms there

[@attrell]

I been to all of them!

[@cynthiapady9475]

my mother in law grew up in goodeve i remember her talking about the goodeve giants baseball team

[@judygarnet425]

Artistically interesting! ❤️❤️❤️

[@robswystun2766]

Awesome video. That last church is fantastic.

[@attrell]

Thanks for watching!

[@scatback33]

Spent a lot of my childhood summers in Oxbow southeast Saskatchewan where my maternal grandparents lived and ran the Hotel there.

[@TheReesox]

I'd really love to visit all these places! Sadly i don't live this close to Saskatchewan. Really enjoyed this trip.

[@yeshuapleaseprotectthechil2150]

Thank you. I really enjoyed watching your video.

[@attrell]

Thank you!

[@leewaddell8561]

Wonderful coverage, I'm thinking of moving out that way for work and well its so nice there.

[@attrell]

You should!

[@thegreencat9947]

So beautiful.....looks like home.

[@herbertcourtesie2459]

Kayville looks, feels, and IS a much better town than tens of thousands of towns populated and mismanaged by an undetermined specie of human that can¨t think straight. This town is clean, tidy, and there is evidence that the people care for it.

[@ChristineRowleySmith]

wow, watching this video makes me sad as I grew up in rural Sk during the 50's and 60's...left after joining the military in 1963. I did return to Hodgeville often during leave and this town is still there but fading with a population of around 80. Nearby towns such as Bateman and Kelstern are now the same as in this video. In fact, when I last visited and took a trip over to Kelstern, there was nothing left other than a small community center. Just a suggestion to Chris Attrell, you might want to visit the Hodgeville area and do up a video of the various towns that are fading fast, Other ones are Flowing Well (no longer there), Neidpath, Shamrock, Saint Boswells, Dendron, Hollinquest, Braddock, and many others. A long time ago, these communities were busy little centers.....btw, thank you for doing these videos.......

[@attrell]

THanks! On my way this week actually, I been to all those places before.

[@sammynoseberg7847]

Another great video! You keep outdoing yourself.

[@attrell]

Thank you!

[@kh7794]

I find it so depressing. Where I grew up they don't even have sports days in all the towns and individual old rural one room schools that were dotted everywhere. I doubt anyone even keeps them up anymore. I don't know what the kids that still exist in my old stomping grounds do. In summer I played ball, dances and weddings, went to the lakes in the Qu'Appelle Valley, e plowed backroads and Turkey trails, bush parties (doubt those exist) drive in movies, I know that doesn't exist. Winter was skiing, from broomball curling, skating you name it. As long as I could get off the farm I did it, including school and work of course. It's just sad now. Last time I went to the farm somehow I knew it would be the last. I'm sure there are now more ghost towns that living ones now. To me it's depressing and sad, I don't see anything beautiful in death of an entire province.

[@attrell]

People are moving back

[@user-zj2oi9xw9o]

Awesome i worked all over the Bakken in the Southeast around Oxbow out of Alida, i lived in Redvers, Whitewood and Moosomin

[@kathleenmartin7498]

Great video!! I lived in Rockglen, SK, just above the US border, south of Regina back in 1980-81

[@attrell]

I like that town!

[@user-qy6rz1gn2l]

This was so amazing to watch!! Would like to see one done in the Bateman St Boswells area🙏

[@attrell]

Maybe one day!

[@bobelliott2748]

Nice video. Many thanks for posting

[@attrell]

Thank you too

[@pike28]

Thanks for taking the time to do these wonderful videos, great job as always!

[@attrell]

Thank you very much!

[@frankcastle2045]

It is absolutely stunning out there love to do what your doing here in Ontario it very condensed I am in Windsor Ont keep up the great videos 😁👍🏻

[@attrell]

Thank you!

[@user-qd1oq5rz3m]

I know a lot of these towns these are great videos I still live near a lot of them. It’s very sad and neat to see where the people and families started out. I wish they were still full of people.

[@livinginalbertanow]

Gotta love the contrast of beauty

[@enkadude]

I really enjoyed watching your video. You are a great narrator. I'm curious if you have any ghost town video on Bateman, SK?

[@attrell]

Thanks. And no yet, but eventually.

[@fingling8]

Really enjoyed this, in a bummer kinda way... When I saw 'Hawke,' I got what movie you'd been speaking of. I just love my growin-up province... want to move back. Or do I.

[@barryposner7609]

Great video. Will you be doing one for the ghost towns on the west side of Last Mountain Lake? Places like Kedleston, Penzance and Amazon.

[@attrell]

Possibly!

[@Colinmcdougall6996]

Wow thanks 😊 that was really great 👍🏻

[@attrell]

Glad you liked it!

[@kejadurgan8440]

Froude - rhymes with "proud".

[@attrell]

Thank you!

[@garryanderson598]

Former Queen City kid...that is a good tour ...thanks

[@attrell]

Thank you!

[@juanitan8139]

That was a cool ending. Well done

[@attrell]

THank you!

[@-KAIX-0405-NZ]

What a cool look at Ghost Towns. Some wooden buildings look like they're from the Wild West. Cowboy Timber.

[@ericandeweg9454]

Amazing and beautiful. Never see it in Holland 9:11

[@DeanofSmoking]

I loved searching through abandoned houses in saskatchewan with my mom dad and brother in the 80s. My great grandma had an abandoned farm in Hepburn Sask that was scheduled for fire fighter practice in the 90s. Probably gone now. But I got to see it before it was gone :_ Thanks for sharing. Neat lfashbacks

[@attrell]

Thanks for watching!

[@nolaginther5942]

My family use to live in Horizon and Bengough. Neat to see Horizon.

[@attrell]

One of my fav towns, first visited in 2004

[@bartdaw6681]

Kayville has a huge history and was an important place for people that immigrated from Romania. Their Greek Orthodox denomination is central to Kayville. This was the town that Hazen Argue used as a home riding. He was the federal leader of the CCF (precursor of the NDP). Google him.

[@attrell]

I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing!

[@barryposner7609]

About 40 years ago I had a landlord who was from Kayville. His mother tongue was Romanian, he didn't learn English until he started school at 7. He had a heavy Romanian accent, despite the fact that he was born and raised in Saskatchewan.

[@waynegalvin4639]

@@barryposner7609see if you can find the book “Romanians in Canada “ and give it a read.

[@bartdaw6681]

@@barryposner7609 there were lots of people in Kayville that were of Romanian descent. They came to Canada to better themselves and most never looked back there is a book “Romanians in Canada” written by a lady in Regina and she documents their community. Some Romanians moved to Canada from North Dakota and settled in southern Saskatchewan. They were located from Assiniboia , Wood Mountain and north to Avonlea. Was their name Majoran?

[@barryposner7609]

@@bartdaw6681 No, the name was Petrescu.

[@happysnapper3676]

Chris you inspire me to cross the pond and visit friends in Canada, it would be remiss of me not to visit these towns as I'm sure it would leave a lasting impression on me. Thank you for your efforts.

[@attrell]

Thank you!

[@joeym1635]

That was dope, guess it gets so cold up there no ones there.

[@fila6243]

The hawke and co elevator was in the movie revenge of the land i worked on that movie.

[@attrell]

Oh wow thanks for letting me know.

[@184186]

hey Chris.. fine video!

[@attrell]

Thank you!

[@HarrisonFord69]

Mazenod would be a good one to do. Family had a farm just a few minutes south. Lots of summers spent there in the 90s as a kid, I doubt 25+ people live there back then. Haven't been in that area in a good 10 years. Cool town/hamlet though.

[@attrell]

I was there in 2006 when it had a ghost town vibe to the place. Now they cleaned it up and it looks nice. I should add it to next video.

[@jwrappuhn71]

Excellent.

[@attrell]

Many thanks!

[@kirstenmccombe3326]

You should visit Fir Mountain sk. It has the last 'one room' school house that was operated in Sask. School closed for good in 1986 and had grades 1-4 with 10 kids and one teacher.

[@attrell]

I will do that! Thanks!

[@thomaspizzey4549]

I work just outside Bayard Saskatchewan on a farm 🚜 for Blaine Gross .He owns a Werehouse in Bayard Saskatchewan with stuff dating back the 70s? I work as labor for farmers around there .

[@dennisrunzer753]

Ask Blain Gross if he is related to Thomas Gross.

[@attrell]

I think I drove past that! Was going to chat with the person working out front but he seemed busy.

[@cherylsemrau7100]

Good video. Greetings from Alberta.

[@attrell]

Thank you very much!

[@paulandmarilynarmstrong]

My mother was born in Hearne Sask. in 1915. The church was gone but there was a plaque when I visited a few years ago.

[@paulandmarilynarmstrong]

The house was there and the cemetery where Mom’s uncle was buried. He does from the Spanish flu.

[@attrell]

I was there in 2008! I should go back and visit!

[@BestOfPerusse]

Bear Creek miner ghost town from the goldrush era near dawson city in the yukon, youd love it

[@attrell]

I will be in Yukon at some point.

[@fritzrue]

Great video!

[@attrell]

Thanks!

[@ProspectorFrank]

I lived in Northgate Sask in the 50's and early 60's. I believe the 1 room school house I attended is still standing.

[@ChristianForrest-pm9mj]

Years ago I lived in New Zealand and I worked with a girl who was from near this place.

[@lucmarchand617]

The problems is lots town close due railroad remove track and grain elevator close.i did pipeline 2000-1 for alliance pipelines saw town dying sad the work help little bit but after close yes.the land very nice and look after but haul grain away on huge grain terminal.sad.thanks video.😮

[@bryonmills8718]

I love all those empty churches. We're getting there.

[@gordonbutton4736]

❤very interesting

[@tobloo174]

Thanks !

[@banjoboy01]

did you put a light in the windows of the very last church? nice shot

[@attrell]

Yes I did! Thank you!

[@maryleachmanbeautyconsultant]

That Orthodox Church...I was shocked to see it there. Interesting.

[@raymeus]

I wanted to go to Lashburn this summer but plans changed so i will try again in 2024, my Dad, Roy Jones grew up there. When he was alive i kept asking him if he wanted to do a road trip back to Lashburn, but he always recoiled in horror, i know he had a rough childhood, no money, no food alot of the time, his father left to work in the mines but never returned, started a new family and then died in a car accident. Sad stories from the past.

[@HemiJB91]

Whats in ladburn ?

[@crudestmonk3071]

As someone looking to get into this as a hobby, what camera setup do you use? How do you find these places? What editing software do you use? Any tips/tricks?

[@JTA1961]

Entire area is... "hill~areas"...thanks for sharing...I'm daring you to do it in February

[@powshredder3716]

what drone do you use? great footage

[@wijtweeun]

I put this great video on my facebook,

[@attrell]

Awesome thank you!

[@markweisberg332]

Looks like the old Christ Lutheran Church near Francis, but I remember it being more east than north. The congregation built a new building on the east side of Francis in the 1950s.

[@attrell]

It is both north and east.

[@wijtweeun]

7:05 an old toilet house was blown down by that hurricane, in 1949 it is almost unbelievable.

[@attrell]

Oh wow!