Folks have been having trouble finding how to get to the abandoned townsite of Yonker. This cache has been placed to help guide folks to that remote location.
Yonker was a small settlement that began at a railroad siding established when the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad was built, back around the year 1908. The settlement grew into a village that included a railroad station, an immigration hall, an elevator, a post office, a grocery store, and a number of dwellings.
By rail, Yonker was very easy to get to. By road, not so much. When the railroad was first conceived and built, railroad sidings were placed at fairly close intervals of around 7 to 10 miles each, to provide as many opportunities for local growth, commercial development, and railroad maintenance as seemed reasonable at the time. Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad threw a great deal of money into this railroad expansion, so methods used to build the rail bed were highly budget and labour intensive and were quite rugged to handle frequent passage of massive steam locomotives. The roads that were developed were funded by the fledgling Province of Saskatchewan with a limited budget that was stretched over a large geographical area. Thus, the roads tended to different paths than the rails where geography was difficult.
Thus, roads to Yonker are few and remote, even though the railway through Yonker is now part of the Canadian National main line and is quite busy. Yonker, itself is now a ghost town marked only by a commemmorative sign, "Yonker 1908-1947", and the wreckage of the general store and a stock yard. Owing to its remote location, Yonker is an excellent dark sky location marred only by the occasional passage of a train. It's quite a pretty location, really.
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