Official Name: | Crichton |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | CAN SK Wise Creek#Saskatchewan |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Crichton in Saskatchewan |
Coordinates: | 49.7236°N -107.8758°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Saskatchewan |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Name3: | 4 |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Wise Creek |
Established Title: | Established |
Established Date: | 1909 |
Established Title2: | Incorporated (Village) |
Established Date2: | N/A |
Established Title3: | Incorporated (Town) |
Established Date3: | N/A |
Leader Title1: | Administrator |
Leader Title2: | Governing body |
Leader Name2: | Wise Creek No. 77 |
Population Total: | 1 |
Population As Of: | 2008 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | S0N 2G0 |
Area Code: | 306 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank Info: | Highway 13 |
Blank1 Name: | Railways |
Crichton is an unincorporated community within the Rural Municipality of Wise Creek No. 77, Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located between Admiral and Cadillac on the historic 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.
On July 25 to 29, 1913 a survey began by a man named David Townsend from Calgary, Alberta plotting out the new community. Residents of the community decided that the name of their community should be after Scottish poet and scholar, James Crichton 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 stands 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 were 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.