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Oakshela is a hamlet in Saskatchewan, Canada. It was founded in the late 19th century by farmers and quickly became a flourishing small town. It once housed a post office, three stores, a school, a church and several families both within town and just outside town.

It also had a cemetery, which is still used to this date. Oakshela is located approximately 124 km east of Regina just off the #1 Highway, about 25 km south of the Qu'Appelle Valley. Oakshela is no longer the town it once was, in fact, it only qualifies as a hamlet now, though its church still stands, unused, as a marker of what used to exist in this small community.

As recently as 1956, it supported two stores, two gas stations and two grain elevators with approximately 50 residents. As of 2009, all of these were gone, the church abandoned and boarded up with about eight homes but no services. A short video is posted on "Youtube" showing the remains of Oakshela in 2009.....sub nom "The Demise of Small Town Saskatchewan".

References

1. "Search the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB) - Oakshela". Government of Canada. February 16, 2021. Retrieved December 14, 2024.

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Cities	Melville
Towns	Bredenbury Broadview Churchbridge Esterhazy Fleming Grenfell Kipling Langenburg Lemberg Moosomin Rocanville Saltcoats Wapella Whitewood Wolseley
Villages	Atwater Bangor Dubuc Duff Fenwood Gerald Glenavon Goodeve Grayson Killaly MacNutt Neudorf Spy Hill Stockholm Tantallon Waldron Windthorst Yarbo
Resort villages	Bird's Point Melville Beach West End
Rural municipalities	Cana 214 Chester 125 Churchbridge 211 Elcapo 154 Fertile Belt 183 Grayson 184 Kingsley 124 Langenburg 181 Martin 122 McLeod 185 Moosomin 121 Rocanville 151 Saltcoats 213 Silverwood 123 Spy Hill 152 Stanley 215 Willowdale 153 Wolseley 155
First Nations	Cowessess Kahkewistahaw Ochapowace Sakimay
Indian reserves	Cowessess 73 73A Kahkewistahaw 72 Little Bone 74B Ochapowace 71 71-7 71-10 71-18 71-26 71-44 71-51 71-54 71-70 Sakimay 74 Shesheep 74A
Unincorporated communities	Organized hamlets Peebles Summerberry Special service areas Welwyn Baring Bender Beresina Ellisboro Fairmede Falcon Inchkeith Langbank Marchwell Neelby New Finland Oakshela Pheasant Forks Rotave St. Hubert Vandura Zeneta
See also: Municipalities in Saskatchewan Census divisions of Saskatchewan Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities

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