Fort San is a former sanatorium, now a resort village, surrounded by the rural municipality of North Qu’Appelle No. 187, Saskatchewan, Canada. The village is located approximately 77 km northeast of Regina and 3 km west of Fort Qu’Appelle. With the closure of the sanatorium the area was repurposed originally as a venue to house the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts and later as a resort village housing the Echo Valley Conference Centre.
Fort San was opened in 1917 during a time when tuberculosis infections were increasing, and was built to house 358 patients. It was a self sufficient institution with vegetable gardens, livestock, a power house, and an extensive library for patients provided by World War I veterans. Fort San was a medical purgatory where hundreds died and thousands suffered. Isolation, loneliness and pain were a way of life for its citizens; some of whom lost years of their lives, if not life itself. Fort San is considered one of Saskatchewan’s most haunted locations.
Fort San was run as a Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Camp named HMCS Qu’Appelle Cadet Summer Training Centre during the summers of the nineties to 2004. The programs offered were: After tuberculosis became less of a threat in the early 1960s, the sanatorium building’s purpose was repurposed to house the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts in 1967.

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