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Instow
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 49°22′26″N 109°16′45″W / 49.37402°N 109.27925°W / 49.37402; -109.27925
Country	Canada
Province	Saskatchewan
Region	Southwest
Rural municipality	Bone Creek No. 108
Established	1914
Incorporated (Village)	1923
Dissolved	January 1, 1951
Government
• Governing body	Bone Creek No. 108
• Reeve	Ben Lewans
• Administrator	Rhonda Bellefeuille
• MLA	Doug Steele
• MP	Jeremy Patzer
Area
• Total	0.00 km (0.00 sq mi)
Population
• Total	0
• Density	0.0/km (0/sq mi)
Time zone	CST
Postal code	S0N 2M0
Area code	306
Highways	Highway 13
Railway	Canadian Pacific Railway

Instow is an unincorporated community within the Rural Municipality of Bone Creek No. 108, Saskatchewan, Canada. The community is on Highway 13 also known as the historic Red Coat Trail, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) northeast of the town of Shaunavon.

Demographics

Instow, like so many other small farming communities throughout Saskatchewan, has struggled to maintain a sturdy population causing Instow to become a complete ghost town with few to no residents. Prior to January 1, 2002, Instow was incorporated under village status, but was dissolved into an unincorporated community under the jurisdiction of the Rural municipality of Bone Creek on that date.

In 2006, Instow had a population of 1 living in 1 dwellings, a 0% decrease from 2001. The village had a land area of 0 km (0 sq mi) and a population density of 0/km (0/sq mi).

History

Early years

Instow was once a small community founded in 1914 with the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. C. Herbert, the first post master and founder of the small community, decided to name it after the small town of Instow, England, where he was originally from. During Instow's boom years in 1923 the town grew to a peak of 60 citizens and was incorporated to village status. After incorporation, streetlights were installed throughout the village, and a well, sidewalks, a skating rink, a seven-metre snow slide for winter sports and a ball diamond were built. The village even had a its very own fire engine, two general stores, a restaurant, a bank, a livery barn, a lumberyard, a community hall, an implement agency, a post office, a garage, a telephone office, a blacksmith, a pool hall, and a total of five grain elevators.

Decline

In 1951 Instow's Village Council decided it would be best for the village to dissolve into an unincorporated community due to the rapid decline in its population. The community was struck once again with the closure of the post office in 1963. Over time many of the buildings in Instow have either been moved, demolished or simply rotted away, leaving very little to nothing of the community remaining.

See also

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

References

1. Bone Creek No. 108
2. National Archives, Archivia Net, Post Offices and Postmasters, archived from the original on October 6, 2006
3. Government of Saskatchewan, MRD Home, Municipal Directory System, archived from the original on November 21, 2008
4. Canadian Textiles Institute. (2005), CTI Determine your provincial constituency, archived from the original on September 11, 2007
5. Commissioner of Canada Elections, Chief Electoral Officer of Canada (2005), Elections Canada On-line, archived from the original on April 21, 2007
6. "Covered population 2002" (PDF). Saskatchewan Health. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 27, 2011. Retrieved April 17, 2008.
7. "Instow Saskatchewan".

v t e Places adjacent to Instow, Saskatchewan
Gull Lake Illerbrun Simmie Kilntonel Instow Scotsguard Shaunavon Climax Canuck

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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