Crichton is a hamlet in the southwest region of Saskatchewan, Canada, and is located between Admiral and Cadillac on the 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.
[edit] History
On July 25 to 29, 1913 a survey began by a man named David Townsend[disambiguation needed 
] from Calgary, Alberta plotting out the new hamlet. Residents of the hamlet decided that the name of their community should be named after "Crichton" a Scottish poet and scholar, Robert Crichton[disambiguation needed ] 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 stand 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 was 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.
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- ^ National Archives, Archivia Net, Post Offices and Postmasters, http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/post-offices/001001-100.01-e.php
- ^ Government of Saskatchewan, MRD Home (– Scholar search), Municipal Directory System, http://www.municipal.gov.sk.ca/index.html [dead link]
- ^ Canadian Textiles Institute. (2005), CTI Determine your provincial constituency, http://www.textiles.ca/eng/nonAuthProg/redirect.cfm?path=IssPolContacts§ionID=7601.cfm
- ^ Commissioner of Canada Elections, Chief Electoral Officer of Canada (2005), Elections Canada On-line, http://www.elections.ca/home.asp
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Coordinates: 49°25′55″N 107°31′23″W / 49.432°N 107.523°W / 49.432; -107.523
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