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Senate (Saskatchewan)
Coordinates: 49°16′28″N109°42′01″W / 49.2745°N 109.7002°W / 49.2745; -109.7002
Country Canada
Province Saskatchewan
Region Southwest Saskatchewan
Census division 4
Rural Municipality Reno
Established1910
Incorporated (Village)1914-1994
Dissolved (unincorporated January 1, 1994
Government
  AdministratorLacelle Kim
  Governing body Reno No. 51
Population
 (1940)
  Total63
Time zone CST
Postal code
S0N 2G0
Area code 306
Highways Saskatchewan Highway 13 (jct).svgSaskatchewan Highway 21 (jct).svg Highway 13  / Highway 21 (Red Coat Trail)
Railways Great Western Railway
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Senate is an unincorporated community within the Rural Municipality of Reno No. 51, Saskatchewan, Canada. The village had a population of 63 around 1940 and has since declined to 0 residents. The townsite is located along Hwighway 21 and the historic Red Coat Trail (also known as Highway 13), about 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of the Alberta-Saskatchewan border and is about 200 kilometres (120 mi) south-west of the city of Swift Current.

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History

Paul Kalmring's family ran a corner store and gas station for most of the time between 1916 and 1983 in the tiny community, named after federal senators of the day when the community was created in 1914. Kalmring's family moved to the 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.

During Senate's best years, the community had two elevators, a five-room hotel and restaurant, blacksmith shop, lumberyard and Kalmring's general store and gas station. For leisure, the citizens of Senate also built a tennis 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 by 1983, the community was empty. 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.

Geography

Most cities in Canada and throughout the world have their antipodes in the ocean. In the 1940s, Senate was one of only a handful of communities in Canada that has not only land, but a similar size village, in this case Port-aux-Français on the Kerguelen Islands, within 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) of its antipode.

Demographics

Prior to January 1, 1994, Senate was incorporated as a village, and was dissolved into an unincorporated community under the jurisdiction of the Rural municipality of Reno on that date. [5]

Canada census – Senate, Saskatchewan community profile
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References: earlier [6] [7]

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