At the junction of Highways 19 and 367, just south of Lake Diefenbaker and the Qu’Appelle River Dam, lies the ghost town of Bridgeford, Saskatchewan. Originally named West Bridgeford, after settlers’ hometown in Nottinghamshire, England, its name was later shortened by the Canadian Pacific Railway when the station opened in 1909. The community’s post office operated until 1973 before the town gradually faded from the map.
Bridgeford once fit into a familiar pattern across the Prairies: a rural town built around a railway station, a post office, a schoolhouse, and scattered homes serving local agricultural families. But with rail branch lines removed and highways realigned in the mid‑20th century, towns like Bridgeford were bypassed and bypassed towns often declined rapidly.
Today, Bridgeford sits on private property with a few remaining houses and the schoolhouse fenced in and posted. The roads of the town overgrown and the history decaying.
