Uranium City News

I try and keep up with the latest news about Uranium City. I'm a one-man band so can't keep up with everything but try to keep this page current. If any important news comes in that I haven't added here, please let me know.

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    Uranium City is small town Canada taken to an extreme

    Northern Saskatchewan’s Uranium City may be a life too isolated for the likes of most city dwellers, but as photographer Ian Brewster and anthropologist Justin Armstrong discovered on their trip to the ghost town, the city’s sense of community has kept its remaining 70 inhabitants going strong. “I have this idea of writing a place […]

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    From the Archives: Uranium City Mayor Battles On

    Article from just after the announcement, December 1981

  • Native Indian Road Crew clearing brush, Uranium City, 1951

    At Work: Historical Images of Labour in Saskatchewan

    Thanks to Andrea Fiss for this link: At Work: Historical Images of Labour in Saskatchewan The caption for this image reads: Construction crew for the Uranium City road. The crew appears to be made up entirely of First Nations men, employed to clear a route through the forest. Date: 1951 The collection includes 5 photos […]

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    Uranium City: Photo Essay in Omnitown

    Uranium City is one of the most unique, and beautiful, places in the province With a population anywhere from 70-200 people (depending on who you talk to), Uranium City doesn’t really qualify as a ghost town. Except for the fact that it had a population of 5,000 people in the 1980s. It’s like an entire […]

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    Uranium City one of 15 Canadian ‘Places’ that HuffPo finds both ‘creepy and beautiful’

      This article appeared in the Huffington Post (Canada) a couple of months ago. A friend sent it on. Good thing too, otherwise I would have missed it entirely. Uranium City is featured as one of ’15 Canadian Places That Are Equally Creepy and Beautiful’. Included is a short write and photo gallery, with one […]

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    Uranium City Reunion 2014

    This summer, the Uranium City Reunion will be held in the Battlefords National Park at the Jackfish Lodge on August 8, 9, 10. For All Uranium City Reunion information, please go to: Friends of Uranium City Jacqui Brown will be among the entertainers. Read an account of the 2002 Reunion, first published in the Saskatoon Star-Pheonix […]