User blog comment:KatDWolf/Relationships/@comment-437707-20100512154510

@Cal: I can help with that!

During the late 1800s, there was a mass amount of immigrants from Eastern Europe coming to Canada (many of them Ukrainians and Poles). Many of them settled in Saskatcehwan due to it's similar landscape of Ukraine. The land in Saskatcehwan is flat and perfect for growing wheat (which to this day is still the province's biggest export). Many Ukrainians settled in small towns (or to some degree created new towns and villages). Many of these towns no longer exist thought. During the early half of the 20th Century, the Great Depression, droughts, fire, and decrease in tourism after the Canadiand Pacific Railway re-routed their trains away from these towns affected many of these places resulted in many of them leaving elsewhere and these places becoming ghost towns. If you're looking for a good ghost town to go to, Saskatcehwan is the place to go. The province is filled with them.