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Senate
Unincorporated community
SenateLocation of Senate, SaskatchewanShow map of Reno No. 51SenateSenate (Saskatchewan)Show map of Saskatchewan
Coordinates: 49°16′28″N 109°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
Established	1910
Incorporated (Village)	1914-1994
Dissolved (unincorporated	January 1, 1994
Government
• Administrator	Lacelle Kim
• Governing body	Reno No. 51
Population
• Total	63
Time zone	CST
Postal code	S0N 2G0
Area code	306
Highways	Highway 13 / Highway 21 (Red Coat Trail)
Railways	Great Western Railway

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.

History

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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

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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.

See also

• List of communities in Saskatchewan
• List of ghost towns in Canada
• List of ghost towns in Saskatchewan

References

1. National Archives, Archivia Net, Post Offices and Postmasters, archived from the original on October 6, 2006, retrieved July 26, 2008
2. Government of Saskatchewan, MRD Home, Municipal Directory System, archived from the original on November 21, 2008
3. Canadian Textiles Institute. (2005), CTI Determine your provincial constituency, archived from the original on September 11, 2007
4. Commissioner of Canada Elections, Chief Electoral Officer of Canada (2005), Elections Canada On-line
5. "Restructured Villages". Saskatchewan Ministry of Municipal Affairs. Archived from the original on March 25, 2008. Retrieved February 10, 2008.
6. "2006 Community Profiles". 2006 Canadian census. Statistics Canada. August 20, 2019.
7. "2001 Community Profiles". 2001 Canadian census. Statistics Canada. July 18, 2021.

v t e Places adjacent to Senate, Saskatchewan
Cypress Hills Battle Creek West Plains Maple Creek Oxarat Alberta Senate Consul Govenlock Willow Creek Port of Willow Creek Nashlyn

v t e Division No. 4, Saskatchewan
Towns	Eastend Maple Creek Shaunavon
Villages	Bracken Cadillac Climax Consul Frontier Val Marie
Rural municipalities	Arlington 79 Bone Creek 108 Carmichael 109 Frontier 19 Grassy Creek 78 Lac Pelletier 107 Lone Tree 18 Maple Creek 111 Piapot 110 Reno 51 Val Marie 17 White Valley 49 Wise Creek 77
First Nations	Nekaneet Cree
Indian reserves	Nekaneet Cree Nation
Unincorporated communities	Organized hamlets Darlings Beach Special service areas Admiral Carmichael Hamlets Orkney Piapot Simmie Altwan Battle Creek Beaver Valley Belanger Bench Blank's Beach Blumenhof Blumenort Canuck Cardell Carnagh Chambery Claydon Clearsite Crane Lake Crichton Cross Cummings Cypress Hills Park Divide Dollard Driscol Lake East Fairwell Edgell Forres Fort Walsh Frenchville Garden Head Gergovia Govenlock Hatton Hillandale Illerbrun Instow Kealey Springs Kincorth Klintonel Knollys Lac Pelletier Leghorn Loomis Mackid Masefield Maxwelton Merryflat Monchy Nashlyn Neighbour Neuhoffnung Notukeu Olga Oxarat Palisade Rangeview Ravenscrag Robsart Roche Plain Rosefield Scotsguard Senate Sidewood Skull Creek South Fork Staynor Hall Stone Supreme Tannahill Treelon Tyro Vesper Vidora West Plains Willow Creek
See also: Municipalities in Saskatchewan Census divisions of Saskatchewan Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities

• Reno No. 51, Saskatchewan
• Former villages in Saskatchewan
• Unincorporated communities in Saskatchewan
• Populated places established in 1910
• Ghost towns in Saskatchewan
• Division No. 4, Saskatchewan