Bents is a well known ghost town in Saskatchewan located southwest of Saskatoon. The town features a very photogenic Saskatchewan Wheat Pool elevator and ghostly main street.
The community was established in 1930 along the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) that ran between Perdue and Rosetown. Bents had several homes, two grain elevators, dance hall, general store, post office and a small train station. It only had one single street. The rail line was abandoned in the 1970s and torn up around 1977. The general store, which also had living quarters above shut down in the 1960s.
There were two elevators, one was the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool built in 1928 still stands today. The other was United Grain Growers, also built in 1928 that was sold to the Wheat Pool in the 1960s. It was torn down in the 1970s.
Today, Bents sits on private property and you need permission to access. The remaining buildings include the dance hall, a couple houses, the general store/post office and the elevator which now lost it's top. There is also some old farm equipment and smaller outbuildings in a decaying state.
