Old Wives, Saskatchewan

Old Wives, Saskatchewan
—  Unincorporated Hamlet  —
Old Wives, Saskatchewan
Coordinates: 50°12′00″N 106°00′02″W / 50.2°N 106.00055°W / 50.2; -106.00055
Country	Canada
Province	Saskatchewan
Region	Southwest Saskatchewan
Census division	Division No. 3
Rural Municipality	Hillsborough
Post office Founded	1912-01-01 (Closed 1969-10-10)
Government
- Reeve
- Administrator
- Governing body	Hillsborough No. 132
Area
- Total	0 km2 (0 sq mi)
Population (2001)
- Total	0
- Density	0/km2 (0/sq mi)
Time zone	CST
Postal code
Area code(s)	306
Highways	Highway 363
[1][2][3][4]

Old Wives is a hamlet in Hillsborough Rural Municipality No. 132, Saskatchewan, Canada.

History

Both the hamlet of Old Wives and Old Wives Lake were named after a local legend that a Cree camp was attacked by a band of Blackfoot warriors and the older women could not escape. They drowned in the lake while trying to swim away to safety.^[5]

Demographics

Old Wives, like so many other small communities throughout Saskatchewan, has struggled to maintain a sturdy population causing it to become a ghost town with only a population with no citizens.

In 2001, Ardill had a population of 0 living in 0 dwellings, a 0% increase from 1996. The village had a land area of 0 km² (0 sq mi) and a population density of 0.0 /km² (0 /sq mi).

See also

• List of places with fewer than ten residents
• List of communities in Saskatchewan
• Hamlets of Saskatchewan

References

1. ^ National Archives, Archivia Net, Post Offices and Postmasters, http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/post-offices/001001-100.01-e.php 
2. ^ Government of Saskatchewan, MRD Home, Municipal Directory System, http://www.municipal.gov.sk.ca/index.html ^{[dead link]}
3. ^ Canadian Textiles Institute. (2005), CTI Determine your provincial constituency, http://www.textiles.ca/eng/nonAuthProg/redirect.cfm?path=IssPolContacts&sectionID=7601.cfm 
4. ^ Commissioner of Canada Elections, Chief Electoral Officer of Canada (2005), Elections Canada On-line, http://www.elections.ca/home.asp 
5. ^ "Place Names in Saskatchewan". http://www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/sask/sknames.html. Retrieved 2008-09-29. 

External links

• Horse Shoe Tourism Region

Coordinates: 50°12′00″N 105°00′02″W / 50.2°N 105.00056°W / 50.2; -105.00056