Batoche
Vanished settlement · Canada
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 52.755, -106.116
Why it was abandoned
📉 Economic decline
Detected automatically from the text: The site has since become depopulated and now has few residents.
History
Batoche, which lies between Prince Albert and Saskatoon in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, was the site of the historic Battle of Batoche during the North-West Rebellion of 1885. The battle resulted in the defeat of Louis Riel and his Métis forces by Major General Frederick Middleton and his Northwest Field Force. Batoche was then a small village of some 500 residents. The site has since become depopulated and now has few residents. The 1885 church building and a few other historic buildings have been preserved, and the site is a National Historic Site.