Boom, bust and echoes Photography and story by Daniel Hayduk
Eight thousand people once lived in and around Uranium City, Sask., in the northwest corner of the province. Founded as a tent outpost
in the early 1950s when uranium was discovered nearby, it grew into a thriving community with dozens of mining ventures as well as hotels,
apartment blocks, a movie theatre, a hospital and CANDU High School.
In the mid-1960s, however, the United States government stopped purchasing Canadian uranium, and the bottom began to fall out of
both the market and the city. When the last mine closed in 1982, the exodus began.
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