Southern Alberta Ghost Towns

I was born in the ghost town of Wayne in 1939 and believe I am the oldest remaining individual born in the town hospital which does not exist today. Wayne is a fun filled place to visit. As of March 2022, 25 people lived there...which gives it the ghost town designation...

As an albertan who loves the small hamlets of alberta.. this video hit close to home and my heart! Thanks for sharing the beauty and history of my home province. ❤

Thank you for highlighting our beautiful province! Alberta is hands down the most diverse landscape across Canada

I have lived in southern alberta my whole life, i work in agriculture delivering farm equipment to farms. I am always too busy to stop but see so many ghost towns while driving back roads for hours on end. Very cool to see some of the places i drive by in this video!

proud to be Albertan, such a beautiful province.

Seeing ghost towns always makes me wonder what the towns were like in their heydays.

Threshing machines. The sheves were brought to the threshing machines by horse and hay rack. You then threw the sheves into the machine to separate the wheat from the chaff. Combines are just that, combineing the thresher with the forward movement and pickup of the wheat or other grains.

You've absolutely earned a sub, Chris. I'm an Edmonton local who's been dabbling in urban exploration and checking out abandoned places like this, and seeing this video come across my home page has been absolutely eye opening to how much I just haven't seen in this time capsule of a province. I actually visited the Atlas mine with my father just before the pandemic, it was an excellent experience and certainly one of the things that got me into urbex as a whole. A more recent experience for me was visiting Hairy Hill in August of this year. It truly is surreal to walk around a town like that, seeing buildings absolutely frozen in time. I look forward to checking out some more of these places over the next few years, excellent work!

I find those town streets where grass meets dirt road naturally so cozy and calming for some reason. Would love to live on a little street like that.

Thank you for showing us this fascinating clip.

This was great, Chris. Back in the 80’s I worked for Canada Post and my job was closing down rural post offices, so I’ve been to most of these towns. I’ve since had occasion to drop by others I worked with - Wrentham, AB comes to mind - and they’re all met a similar fate. Anyway, I’ve subscribed.

Really one factor that killed these smaller centers was when Canada Post closed the Post Office and went to community mail boxes, it took the local meeting place away.

I came on to make a joke and say you forgot Bassano..lol..but then the memories kicked in..I used to drive the preacher on his rounds back in mid 80's..Empress where we been to the hotel and had breakfast..off to Acadia valley..Buffalo..then Bindloss to finish the day ..I have been in the church there...sad to see things shuttered..great people out that way...we did stop every place for a lunch or supper..lol..the ladies were the sweetest...Thanks for this.

I love Alberta. Sadly, I don't drive yet. Im proud to be Albertan, and the junk painted on those places should be cleaned.

THANKS CHRIS. REALLY ENJOY YOUR VIDEOS. YOU’RE DOING A GREAT JOB!!!!!!!!

Lived in Southern Alberta my whole life and have never heard of these towns so this was very exciting to watch!

Retlaw is one of my favorite towns to visit. There is a lot of feelings there. Especially in the church.

I’ve been to the Atlas Coal Mine a few times. It’s a really cool place to visit.

I grew up along the Montana highline, and frequented Alberta, Canada many times. Wonderful people, and a beautiful province.

This was really cool, my Aunt lived in or around Empress, I can't remember, and it was really cool to see what the town looked like. It's really sad to see these towns that were once so alive and are now gone. I live in a small town outside Waterton Park, and thankfully it's survived all of these years later, but it's not the same as when it was in it's prime.