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Colonists Braved Distances, Pressed on to Settle Alberta's Wild, Rolling Prairies Colonists braved distances, pressed on to settle Alberta's wild, rolling prairies BY DENISE WALSH NORTON CHURCH NEWS - 20 OCTOBER 1985 Church News correspondent CARDSTON. ALBERTA erhaps few of the Latter- sometime, but I One immigrant, day Saints who headed saw this would not 13-year-old Jane north to Canada early in do to be standing Woolf Bates, won­ 1887 under the direction here looking back, dered if there of Charles Ora Card real­ so I turned my would be "some­ lPy believed the move would be a per­ face northward, thing there to re­ manent one. braced up and mind us of the pulled my cap homes and scenes After all, the Cache Valley in north­ over my face and left behind." Ex­ ern Utah from which they left was drove on." (A His­ pressing "wonder­ peaceful and settled; the far north tory of the Mor­ ment and delight" was rugged and untamed. They had mon Church in at the rolling prai­ little reason to believe they would not Canada.) ries covered with return to their beloved valley. tall, waving bunch In an account of his trek north, Jon­ Even so, as a weed and wild- company of saints athan Layne wrote: flowers in profu­ approached the sion, young Jane "On April 3rd, Sunday, I started out, U.S.-Canada bor­ I bid the family goodbye and started did indeed discov­ der, they gave er something rem­ north, I knew not where, and on reach­ hearty salutes, ing the sand hills north of Lewiston, 1 iniscent of home: "Hurrah for Cana­ mountains. stopped and looked back on the peace­ da! Canada or ful home of Cache Valley and my own homes which contained nearly all I bust! Three cheers "The Rocky Mogralh held dear in this world. Well, it for Canada!" Mountains — won- Glenwood. was a clear day but there were large Hill Spring drops of water on my cheeks for x/j * Cardston Mountain View Leavitl Photo by Denise Walsh Norton Alberta Temple and square-topped Old Chiel mountain are two landmarks in the Mormon-colonized area ol Alberta in southern Canada drous range, with majestic, square- wealth that could i son of the new sugar factory owner. topped Chief Mountain stationed in be created by the Today the region is dotted with Mor­ front as if to give strength and cour­ diversion of some mon colony communities: Taber, Ma­ age to our undertaking." (The of our waters that grath, Stirling. Raymond, Aetna. Hill Founding of Cardston and Vicini­ were wasting Spring. Glenwood, Leavitt, Mountain ty by Jane Woolf Bates and Zina down our rivers, View, Beazer, towns that range from 600 Woolf Hickman.) to the lands in the to 3.500 in population. About 22,000 mem- immediate neigh­ Within 10 years of their arrival in I live in the colonial area south of borhood of our lit­ Calgery, excluding Cranbrook. Alberta, the saints had established a tle town." thriving community with homes, stores, a meetinghouse and a variety Cardston with a population of more of industries. By 1893, Cardston's pop­ Another surge than 3,000, is known as the Temple City ulation had grown to an impressive of settlement oc­ of Canada. The Alberta Temple, the only 593 persons. curred in 1901 temple in Canada until the planned To­ when Jesse Knight ronto Ontario Temple is completed, was An irrigation plan boosted the pop­ was encouraged ulation even more. Because the pio­ by Elder John W. dedicated in 1923, and annually attracts neers were already experienced irri­ Taylor of the thousand of tourists to the area. gation farmers and had their own Council of the Cardston is still jealously guarded by irrigation projects firmly established, Twelve to estab­ Old Chief, the same mountain young they caught the attention of Charles lish a sugar fac­ Jane Woolf Bates noticed on that first A. Magrath, manager of a railway tory in Canadian trip north nearly 100 years ago and coal company. Mormon country. Its fulure as a sentinel is uncertain, agrath realized that without Knight, who however. In a prophecy, Edward J. some major irrigation sys­ owned mines in Wood, the first president of the Alberta M tem, the predominantly Utah, at first con­ Temple and a much-loved pioneer, said prairie land would remain barren. sidered the idea ri­ the Alberta Temple would stand long af­ diculous, but after ter Old Chief Mountain had crumbled Magrath proposed a major irriga­ and fallen. His prophecy is being ful­ tion canal be built throughout the further discussion with Elder Taylor, filled. Experts are now saying the moun­ area, and the workers be paid cash tain is crumbling, and that climbing to and land for their labors. purchased 260,000 acres of land. its peak could eventually become This, he reasoned, would provide Some he kept for hazardous. them with mortgage-free, irrigated himself, his new land. His irrigation and immigration business and the The Mormon influence in Southern Al­ scheme eventually helped settle Church, but most berta, however, remains solid. southern Alberta. of the land was By 1898 the economic situation was sold to Latter-day critical in Utah, and Church leaders Saint settlers were appealing to wards and stakes for notification of employment oppor­ The ensuing tunities elsewhere. town was called Raymond after eedless to say, Card wasted Raymond Knight, little time contacting the N First Presidency with details of Magrath's irrigation plan. Negotia­ tions between Canada and Salt Lake City were finalized by April 1898, and within a year Utah Mormons, recruit­ CHURCH NEWS • WEEK BEGINNING OCTOBER 20, 1985 ed as canal workers, were swarming into Canada . and into the newly established towns of Stirling and Magrath. Later Magrath was to say, "In my opinion, the movement of Mormons to southern Alberta was of inestimable value in opening of that section of the West. They understood irrigation, and having made Lethbridge their market town, we were continually told of the .
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