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Crichton
Unincorporated community
Monument commemorating Crichton's last resident
CrichtonLocation of Crichton in SaskatchewanShow map of Wise Creek No. 77CrichtonCrichton (Saskatchewan)Show map of Saskatchewan
Coordinates: 49°43′25″N 107°52′33″W / 49.72361°N 107.87583°W / 49.72361; -107.87583
Country	Canada
Province	Saskatchewan
Region	Saskatchewan
Census division	4
Rural Municipality	Wise Creek
Established	1909
Incorporated (Village)	N/A
Incorporated (Town)	N/A
Government
• Governing body	Wise Creek No. 77
Population
• Total	1
Postal code	S0N 2G0
Area code	306
Highways	Highway 13

Crichton (/ˈkreɪtən/ KRAY-tən) is an unincorporated community within the Rural Municipality of Wise Creek No. 77, Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located between Admiral and Cadillac on the historic Red Coat Trail, also known as Highway 13. Like so many towns along the Red Coat Trail, Crichton has become a ghost town with only one family remaining and many empty buildings scattered throughout the town site.

History

On July 25 to 29, 1913 a survey began by a man named David Townsend from Calgary, Alberta plotting out the new community. Residents of the community decided that the name of their community should be after Scottish poet and scholar, James Crichton born in Perthshire in 1560.

During its day as an incorporated settlement, Crichton had three grain elevators (all have been torn down), a school that has been moved to a nearby bible camp, a café and pool hall, a garage that still stands on main street, boarding house, a blacksmith shop, lumberyard, post office, livery barn, water tower (torn down in the 1960s), and a large warehouse attached to the general store. There were even a golf course and tennis courts built for the community, as well as a baseball diamond near the school site. Today Crichton has one resident, and a few scattered buildings sitting abandoned.

See also

• List of communities in Saskatchewan
• Lists of ghost towns in Canada
• List of ghost towns in Saskatchewan

References

1. National Archives, Archivia Net, Post Offices and Postmasters, archived from the original on October 6, 2006
2. Government of Saskatchewan, MRD Home, Municipal Directory System, archived from the original on November 21, 2008
3. Canadian Textiles Institute. (2005), CTI Determine your provincial constituency, archived from the original on September 11, 2007
4. Commissioner of Canada Elections, Chief Electoral Officer of Canada (2005), Elections Canada On-line, archived from the original on April 21, 2007
5. The Canadian Press (2017), The Canadian Press Stylebook (18th ed.), Toronto: The Canadian Press

v t e Places adjacent to Crichton, Saskatchewan
Simmie Swift Current Neville Admiral Crichton Cadillac Bracken Orkney Val Marie

v t e Division No. 4, Saskatchewan
Towns	Eastend Maple Creek Shaunavon
Villages	Bracken Cadillac Climax Consul Frontier Val Marie
Rural municipalities	Arlington 79 Bone Creek 108 Carmichael 109 Frontier 19 Grassy Creek 78 Lac Pelletier 107 Lone Tree 18 Maple Creek 111 Piapot 110 Reno 51 Val Marie 17 White Valley 49 Wise Creek 77
First Nations	Nekaneet Cree
Indian reserves	Nekaneet Cree Nation
Unincorporated communities	Organized hamlets Darlings Beach Special service areas Admiral Carmichael Hamlets Orkney Piapot Simmie Altwan Battle Creek Beaver Valley Belanger Bench Blank's Beach Blumenhof Blumenort Canuck Cardell Carnagh Chambery Claydon Clearsite Crane Lake Crichton Cross Cummings Cypress Hills Park Divide Dollard Driscol Lake East Fairwell Edgell Forres Fort Walsh Frenchville Garden Head Gergovia Govenlock Hatton Hillandale Illerbrun Instow Kealey Springs Kincorth Klintonel Knollys Lac Pelletier Leghorn Loomis Mackid Masefield Maxwelton Merryflat Monchy Nashlyn Neighbour Neuhoffnung Notukeu Olga Oxarat Palisade Rangeview Ravenscrag Robsart Roche Plain Rosefield Scotsguard Senate Sidewood Skull Creek South Fork Staynor Hall Stone Supreme Tannahill Treelon Tyro Vesper Vidora West Plains Willow Creek
See also: Municipalities in Saskatchewan Census divisions of Saskatchewan Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities

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