Prairie Past is a rural and urban exploration channel based in Saskatchewan. We document abandoned, historic and rural locations throughout Saskatchewan and beyond. Our videos feature abandoned schools, churches, houses and more. Saskurbex has been exploring since 2000 and VanishedCompass has been exploring since 2007. They have been exploring together since 2008.
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Tracks are all gone, or they've been cemented over - I couldn't discern. Interesting that roller press in the other room: if that's original equipment I guess they'd use that to replace boiler plates, likely having all the gear needed to rebuild steam locomotives. Thanks for exploring this place, and thanks for posting!
hi! i’m someone who is really trying to get into urbex but have had some major troubles finding any locations, as i know we aren’t supposed to give out locations i don’t expect you to give me any however i was wondering if you have any tips on how to find abandoned locations
All depends on what you are looking for but the best way to explore in Saskatchewan is to hit the backroads are use google maps. Feel free to reach out on our social or email if you have any further questions. Happy exploring!
I wonder why there are deep tracks in the crop field around the house area? Did the farmer do that? Do other people do that? I know that you wouldn't do such a thing. Good video in any case.
Loved your video. There is also one in our area of SE Sask ,but not as big. Can you imagine not only building it, but living in it, lucky family. I remember the remains of my grand parents first house,on the land where we now live, is all that remained was a pile of sod,or mound of black dirt,but our family is still farming after 125 years.
Fantastic bit of history, it’s a shame our DND has been put on the back burner with budget cuts and closing bases across this great nation of ours . The new owners could profit from this by having tours or rent it out to the movie industry!
Unfortunately the stone walls are now coming apart so it would be costly to repair. Like you said, small farms are now large farms so many of these yards and houses were left.
A remnant of the Cold War. The collapse of the Soviet Union signaled the start of the demise of these installations. All of the gap fillers are gone but some of the power and data processing buildings still exist repurposed by private owners. Some of the long-range radar sites still exist, repurposed for other uses but many are simply abandoned and decaying. There are a scant few joint use sites still active, but the direction centers they reported to no longer exist even though the blockhouse may still stand but repurposed. The old frequency diversified systems are long gone, replaced mostly with ARSR systems. My last duty station where I was an ECCM tech is now owned by the Lutheran Church and is used as a retreat, you can visit it and see the place as long as you go by the old orderly room and ask permission., this was Osceola AFS in Osceola Wisconsin.
I remember driving by there in the early 1970s when those white ball things were still there (radar?). I always wondered what the base looked like. Would have liked to have seen it in the day....
Yes, originally the white dome would have been on top of the radar tour. There is still one in place at the Alsask site. It's in a sad state these days but there are historic photo's online of what it was like.
My elementary school had classrooms that looked just like that when I started going there in 1971. Same light fixtures and big windows. It was remodeled to drop ceilings with fluorescent lights 2 years later.
That church is so clean inside. I suppose I'm so used to seeing such buildings after rodents and especially birds get in and make a major mess. It's nice to see a clean one occasionally. A fine video as usual.
