- Senate, Saskatchewan
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name = Senate, Saskatchewan
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settlement_type = Hamlet
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subdivision_type1 = Province
subdivision_name1 = SK
subdivision_type2 = Region
subdivision_name2 = SouthwestSaskatchewan
subdivision_type3 = Census division
subdivision_name3 = No. 4
subdivision_type4 = Rural Municipality
subdivision_name4 = Reno
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leader_title = Former Mayor
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leader_title1 =Administrator
leader_name1 = Lacelle Kim
leader_title2 = Governing body
leader_name2 = [http://www.mds.gov.sk.ca/apps/Pub/MDS/muniDetails.aspx?cat=10&mun=2527 Reno No. 51]
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established_title = Established
established_date = 1910
established_title2 = Village established
established_date2 = 1914-1994
established_title3 =Restructured (Hamlet)
established_date3 = 1994
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population_total = 63
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postal_code_type =Postal code
postal_code = S0N 2G0
area_code = 306
blank_name = Highways
blank_info = Highway 13
blank1_name = Waterways
blank1_info = *Cypress Lake Middle Creek
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|footnotes = [Citation
last =National Archives
first =Archivia Net
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title =Post Offices and Postmasters
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url =http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/post-offices/001001-100.01-e.php
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last =Government of Saskatchewan
first =MRD Home
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title = Municipal Directory System
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url =http://www.municipal.gov.sk.ca/index.html
accessdate = ] [Citation
last =Canadian Textiles Institute.
first =
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title =CTI Determine your provincial constituency
date =
year =2005
url =http://www.textiles.ca/eng/nonAuthProg/redirect.cfm?path=IssPolContacts§ionID=7601.cfm
accessdate = ] [Citation
last =Commissioner of Canada Elections
first =Chief Electoral Officer of Canada
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title =Elections Canada On-line | Home
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year =2005
url =http://www.elections.ca/home.asp
accessdate = ]Senate was once a small
hamlet in the southwestern located on highway 13, about 20 km east of theAlberta -Saskatchewan border and is about 200 km southwest ofSwift Current ,Canada .History
Paul Kalmring's family ran a corner store and gas station for most of the time between 1916 to 1983 in the tiny community, named after federal senators of the day when the hamlet was created in 1914. Kalmring's family moved to he area when Paul was two, and his father soon purchased a convenience store and gas station.
Senate's population peaked at 63 in the 1940s and was a stopping point for the
Canadian Pacific Railway . For a few years, Senate even had its own train ticket agent.The west had just been opened up to waves of European
settlers seeking prosperity, and at first, the future appeared promising for Senate and several others along Highway 13, or what is now know today as theRed Coat Trail .During Senate's best years, the hamlet boasted two elevators, a five-room
hotel and restaurant,blacksmith shop, lumberyard and Kalmring'sgeneral store andgas station . For leisure, the citizens of Senate also built atennis court and a baseball diamond across the train tracks.But as in most other locales along southwest Saskatchewan, Senate's fortunes declined after the 1940s. Regional farm consolidation, drought and rural depopulation ended all hope for any lasting life at Senate.
By the early 1980s, Kalmring sold his store and moved to his farm, three kilometres north of Senate. And in 1983, the hamlet was empty, home only to prairie ghosts. In 1994, with the railway and elevators also gone,
rural municipality officials brought in the bulldozers and levelled Senate's remaining dilapidated buildings and dumped part of the debris into a nearby landfill.See also
*
List of places with fewer than ten residents
*List of communities in Saskatchewan
*Hamlets of Saskatchewan
*List of ghost towns in Canada
*Ghost towns in Saskatchewan References
External links
* [http://www.ghosttownpix.com/sask/towns/senate.shtml Saskatchewan Ghost Towns by Johnnie Bachusky]
* [http://www.horseshoetourism.ca/members.htm Horse Shoe Tourism Region]
* [http://www.becquet.com/director/maps/index.htm Saskatchewan City & Town Maps]
* [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~skswiftc/SwiftCurrent/index.html Regional GenWeb site (Southwest Region)]
* [http://www.rootsweb.com/~cansk/school/ Saskatchewan Gen Web - One Room School Project ]
* [http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/post-offices/001001-100.01-e.php Post Offices and Postmasters - ArchiviaNet - Library and Archives Canada]
* [http://www.rootsweb.com/~cansk Saskatchewan Gen Web Region]
* [http://www.rootsweb.com/~canmaps/index.html Online Historical Map Digitization Project]
* [http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/search/search_e.php GeoNames Query ]
* [http://www.afhs.ab.ca/registry/regsk_cemeteryp.html Saskatchewan Cemetery Records]
* [http://www.saskgenealogy.com/cemetery/cem_community.asp Sask Cemeteries by Community and RM RM No. 51 - RENO ]Canadian City Geographic Location (8-way)
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