The bushy, rolling countryside between Unity Saskatchewan and Chauvin Alberta is spotted with dry, salty lakebeds. They may have been unaccommodating to grain farmers but they offered plenty of unobstructed range land.  Now, although the villages of Winter, Yonker and others are long gone, intrepid explorers can still find cattle wandering through the Poplar thickets. Just step off the paved and numbered grid roads and get onto the gravel lanes.   You’ll find the signs.

           This small, well maintained corral and loading facility (Photo 2) can be found in the deep grass at the old Artland town site but that road sign on the right says all that needs to be said about what changed around here.  As reliable, all weather roads were pushed into Artland trucks began to take cattle to and from markets.  Pens were shifted from rail side to roadside.  Larger shops in other villages took the customers away.  Schools moved, post offices moved, elevators moved, shops closed and home and businesses were abandoned so you can represent a whole community with this small facility next to a dusty road.  Notice the colour of the wood.