1903-04 1914 1928 1947 1986 The First World War breaks out. The City of builds a seaplane base ’sOil s Leduc No.No. 1 well blowsb in February 13. is The Strathcona Heritage As a consequence, investment at . Later, in 1980, the becoming Edmonton’s Subsequent discoveries usher Foundation is established, money dries up and ’s Alberta gggovernment builds a landing strip.p playground as in a new economy for Alberta, leading to the development of real estate boom crashes. Many townspeople seek nearby so much so that Imperial the Museum farmers raise horses for the war vacation property. A dismantles an idle refinery at and Archives, which opened in effort, so much so that there is telephone line connects Whitehorse and reassembles it Julyy 1987. a shortage of draught horses for Edmonton to Cooking at Clover Bar; it opens in the farms. The war changes how Lake in 1909. summer of 1948. PrehistoricFrom1850s 1868 time1885 to time... Binder at work on the Bremner Farm c. 1916 farmers operate. Archaeologists have excavated 30 The fur-rich are frequentedq Métis from as far away as and Lac Ste. The Second Riel Uprising image: Glenbow Archives nc-6-2621 image: Strathcona County Museum & Archives iimage:mage: Strathcona County Museum & Archives pre-historic sites along the shorelines of byby as late as the 1850s. Anne meet at for a buffalo hunt. occupies most of the spring Hastings and Cooking Lakes. Three and summer months. Local There are several small coal mines established separate excavations at the Strathcona settlers seek shelter in Fort 1917 Bellanca Pacemaker on ffloatsloats at CCookingooking LakLakee 1966 along the North To raise money to cover the expenses of the war effort, the federal image: Denny May Collection Science Park uncovered much evidence 1875 Saskatchewan. On May 15, image:image: Provincial Archives of Alberta, P2733 The Bremner Church is of seasonal prehistoric occupatiooccupation. The North West Mounted Police build at leader Louis Riel is Saskatchewan River. The government introduces income tax as a temporaryt measure. expropriated by Department of . captured. On July 6, he is Great West Coal Company Highways for an overpass, and Clover Bar Church and School, c. 1910 will become the largest charged with high treason imimage:age: Provincial Archives ooff Alberta, BB39713971 the Bremner townsite and hanged November 16. and longest operating 1918 disappears. The railway grade at image: Strathcona County Museum & Archives mine in the municipality, 1929 1939 TelephoneTele crew, c. 1913 The First World War ends. Bremner is rebuilt and a The Second World War begins in Europe. image:imag Strathcona County Museum & Archives closing in 1952. The Wall Street stock four-lane highway is built image: Glenbow Archives nc-6-6638 market crashes, through the district. Highway 16 heralding the worst Herbert Franklin Ball, Deermound Alberta, Maple Leaf Petroleum service station, Bremner, 19381938 officially opens in 1970; it was Reg #436610 joined 51 Btn Jan 26, 1915, economic depression of image: Glenbow Archives pd-220-24 designated as the Yellowhead 1903 R. Ball Farm near Edmonton, Alberta wounded and died Nov 18, 1916, last day image: Provincial Archives of Alberta, A21624 image: Glenbow Archives s-222-25 the 20th century. Highway in 1977. iimage:mage: RRoyaloyal AlbAlbertaerta MMuseumuseum The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway receives a charter to build a 1911 image: Provincial Archives of Alberta, P661 of the Battle of the Somme. He was in the 1945 Ministik Lake is made a permanent 38th Btn, Machine Gun Brigade. Buried in transcontinental line from Winnipeg to Prince Rupert, British Columbia. Contay British Cemetery, France. The Second World War ends. bird sanctuary. image: Strathcona County Museum & Archives Alberta enters a decade of dramatic growth.

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Township Road 564 1960s 1860s 1891 1905 830 Freeway was built in the 1960s by the of Alberta Thomas Clover, a California The first immigrants from the Austro- The Province of Alberta is bbetweenetween the rapidly growinggrowing of Sherwood Park and the CityCit of Edmonton. ’49er gold prospector, finds Hungarian Empire (Galacia) arrive to carved out of the Early communities of Strathcona County gold on a bar in the North homestead in what is now the North-West Territories. Saskatchewan River east of and Ross Creek districts. This map highlights some of the names of our early districts. Township Road 562 Edmonton. By the mid-1880s, the surrounding area is known 1909 Eight of these early districts developed into rural hamlets as Clover Bar. that are well established today. Radom The Grand Trunk Pacific lays rails through the district. Bolton Stations are built at Deville, Cooking Lake, Uncas, Others are small locales known mostly to long-time Township Road 560 1867 Ardrossan, Bremner and Clover Bar. residents — remembered as the name of an old Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the school, post office, store or railway stop. 45 United Province of (now much image: Krebs Family Collection Scotford Fromof Ontario and Quebec) join to form the time to time The Beaver Hills (amisk-wa-chi in Cree), also known image: Strathcona County Museum & Archives Dominion of Canada. as the Cooking Lake Moraine, was created by 15 Township Road 554 Known as the "dairy shed of Edmonton,” there are many small dairy farmers in glacial retreat 12,000 years ago. This treed, Philips Farm, Clover Bar area, c. 1891-1904 Castle Deep Creek the Municipal District of Strathcona. Names include Stannard, Bailey, Marler, 1869-70 image:age: Provincial Archives of Alberta, B26B2622 upland area of hummocky "knob and kettle" Gramotovich, Hipkin, Gray, Adams, Kephert, Hosford, Ottewell, McGhan, The Dominion of Canada purchases Rupert’s Land, the territory terrain consists of wetlands, lakes and a Wunderly, Kinch, Corcoran, Ball and McCalla. The size of local dairy farms Township Road 552 given to the Hudson’s Bay Company in its 1670 charter, for dry mixed-wood Boreal forest. doubles between 1939 and the 1960s and the number of cows increases £300,000 and one-twentieth of land in the “fertile belt”. 1881 15 correspondingly. By the 1980s, the ever-increasing size of dairy farms is R.P.R.P. Ottewell,Otte Thomas Jackson, prohibitive,pygg and many farmers switch to grain farming. W.D. CarscaddenCa and Edward Fort Saskatchewan LLangrellangrell are among the first to Building of Clover Bar bridge, 1908 image: Provincial Archives of AlbertaAlberta,, A95A958888 Correction Line aarriverrive inin the Clover Bar area to ttakeake upup homesteads. Township Road 550 Josephburg TownshiTownships 52, 53, 54 in range 23, Pleasant View Mansfield townshipstownshi 54 and 56 in range 21, townshiptownshi 56 in range 20, and 15 Township Road 544 ttownshipsownshi 51, 55 in range 22 are 830 , 1871 surveyed.surveyed image: Glenbow Archives na-1408-1 Parkside Yorkville 1870 Township Road 542 A ssmallpoxm epidemic Mr andand MrsMrs R. P. OttewellOttewell c.c. 19271927 ddevastateseva local native and Griesbach Partridge Hill Good Hope DairyDairy cattle inside barn, A. and H. Martin, five miles south-east of Edmonton on the WyeWye Road, 19331933 iimage:mage: GGlenbowlenbow Archives nd-3-3528bnd-3-3528b Grand Trunk Pacific engine crossing James Daly’s bridge 21 image: Glenbow Archives nd-3-6503a MétMétis populations. A image: Strathcona County Museum & Archives ggraveyardrav near While most farmers raise Shorthorn multi-multi-purposepurpose cattle, Township Road 540 coulcould be one of two 1892 some dairy breeds are being introduced. introduced Eventually, Eventually the ggraveyardsrav consecrated by Holstein breed will dominate. City of Edmonton 1950s OOblatebla priest, Father Vital Six townships of Beaver Hills are set aside by the federal Agricola Trappers Lake Power electrifies Fourmond,Four that fall. government for a timber reserve. Strathcona County. Demographic St. Margaret’s Church Akenside Ypres Valley shifts see farmers move to the image: Strathcona County Maurice Smeltzer takes a homestead where the Westboro closest town for schooling and Township Road 534 subdivision of Sherwood Park is now. He will build a large brick Statute Labor and Fire better shopping. Small hamlets househouse in 11920.920. District No. 2 Island begin to disappear. Railways begin 1872 Parry Sound colonists declared April 14, 1893 National Park their long withdrawal from Joseph and Francois Lamoureux establish themselves opposite of numbering 298 arrive in the Brookville of Canada unprofitable lines. Grain present-day Fort Saskatchewan. In 1875, their toll ferry across the Partridge Hill district. companies are forced to close charges $.08 for foot passengers, $.20 for Ardrossan 16 Bremner elevators along those lines. horse or mule and rider, and $.50 for a vehicle drawn by more than Clover Bar image: Strathcona County two animals, plus a driver. Baker Allan R. Gillies’ farm, Clover Bar, 1913 image: Glenbow Archives na-1328-64702 image: Strathcona County Museum & Archives 216 Township Road 530 Baseline Road Sherwood Park 824 Bennett Lake 1894 Proud of our namesake—Lord Strathcona Boag Lake Moravian immigrants from the Donald Alexander Smith began his prominent Campbelltown Wye Road Uncas Austro-Hungarian Empire business and political career with the Hudson’s 630 Cooking Lake-Blackfoot Township Road 524 settle in the Bruderheim and Bay Company as an apprentice clerk in 1838 Deer Mound Provincial Recreation Area Colchester areas. and worked his way to chief commissioner by Salisbury Garden/Glen Garden 1871. He was a financial backer of the Canadian Wye image: Strathcona County Museum & Archives Antler Lake image: Glenbow Archives na-303-54 Pacific Railway and, during the Boer War, also Sanford Lake Campbelltown is established as a new satellite community to house employees of 1895 personally maintained Strathcona’s Horse, a 628 (Big Island) Township Road 522 the petrochemical industries. In 1956, the name is changed to Sherwood Park. Cooking Lake Forest Reserve is created regiment of mounted riflemen largely from the Burke Lake Wanisan Lake 1872 followinggg devastating forest fires. West. He was knighted in 1886, and elevated to (Twin Island) The Dominion Lands Act is passed by Ottawa. It establishes Half Moon Lake Local farmers form a local the peerage in 1897, taking the name Lord Colchester regulations regarding the disposal of Dominion lands. Land can be Cree Reserve of the Territorial Grain Strathcona and Mount Royal. Half disposed of through Métis scrip, Hudson’s Bay Company lands, school 629 Fultonvale Moon Lake Growers, a forerunner of the Deville Township Road 520 lands, homesteads, pre-emptions, railway land grants and sales to We are proud of our name, as it honours our United Farmers of Alberta. namesake, Lord Strathcona. 14 Douglas colonization companies, among other methods. Bretona 630 Strathcona was a hotbed of Wye Road The federal government undertakes the survey of the North-West debate as they hammered image:image: Glenbow Archives na-579-13 LordLord StrathconaStrathcona 21 Territories, adapting a modified version of the American landholding out the ground rules for the image: Glenbow Archives nb-40-2, cropped The Papaschase Cree sign Treaty 6 on August 21, system. formation of the UFA. South Cooking Lake Cooking Lake Township Road 514 1877. They are given a reserve of 25,600 acres, Hastings Lake Names like Daly, Jackman, or 40 square miles. The area was once within Ottewell, Wilkinson, along Strathcona’s municipal boundaries and is now McFadden Lake with Sheppard and Ball . Hastings Lake appear often in accounts of Wimbledon these discussions. Franklin 14 Township Road 512 1670 In 1885, the federal government offers scrip to The Hudson’s Bay Company is granted a Royal Métis, including band members with treaty Ministik image: Glenbow Archives na-2784-18 status under Treaty 6. By 1888 all 194 Charter by King Charles II of England to tap a wealth image: Strathcona County Museum & Archives of furs in the Hudson Bay watershed. In 1783, the Papaschase band members take Métis scrip, making Papaschase the first reserve to rival North West Company is formed and by 1793 Ministik Lake Township Road 510 Baseball is the main image: Glenbow Archives na-2839-4

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Saskatchewan. The Hudson’s Bay Company e Road 204 hunt, 1926 is keen rivalry among establishes Edmonton House next door. After a image: Glenbow Archives nc-6-1179e the community baseball period of intense rivalry, the two companies merge in Beaver teams of Bremner, 1821 under the name Hudson’s Bay Company. Strathcona County’s changing boundaries County Salisbury, Ardrossan and Clover Bar. 1893 1918 1943 1962 1995 Recorded in the North-West Territories Gazette: Local Improvement District No. 5177 isis re-namedre-named Municipal District of Cloverver BarBar The Municipal Districttrict of Strathcona The County of Strathcona Municipal District of Clover Bar No.. 517. No. 517 merges with thee No. 83 and the Cloveroverr BarBar SchoolSchool No. 20 reverts to a On April 14, 1893, the area of Clover Bar—Township 53, Range 1950s - 1980s image:image: StrathconaStrathcona CountyCounty Museum & Archives Municipal District of Strathconaathcona Division are joinedd totogethergether under The boundaries of the Municipal District of Municipal District, and 22, West 4th Meridian—was declared by the North-West Territorial Local Improvement District No. 5188 is re-named Built in 1929-30, Lakeview Pavilion No. 518. The County Act; thee municipalitymunicipality is Strathcona No. 83 remained static from 1943 to later in the year its name Legislature as Statute Labor and Fire District Number Two. Municipal District of Strathcona No.o. 518.518. at SSouthou Cooking Lake was known given a new name,, thethe CountyCounty ofof 1953. In 1955, residents southeast of Cooking is officially changed to This measure was taken to address issues settlers were having In 1945, Municipal Districtrict ofof to hhaveav the best dance floor in Strathcona No. 20.0. Lake successfully petitioned the government to Strathcona County. with fires and wandering livestock, and the need for trails. This Strathcona No. 518 becomesomes the AlbertAlbertaa in the mid-20th century. official declaration was a first step in the development of Municipal District of Strathconaathcona join the Municipal District of Strathcona. In 1996, Strathcona County’s legal status Strathcona County as a rural self-governing body. No. 83. Over the years Strathcona County (the Municipal changes from a Municipal District of Strathcona No. 83 and County of District to a Specialized Statute Labor and Strathcona No. 20) has undergone numerous Municipality. Fire District No. 2 19171917 annexations by both Edmonton and Fort Councillors, MD Strathcona, c. 1920 19501950 Saskatchewan, many involving significant image: Strathcona County Museum & Archives CurrentCurrent Strathcona County boundaries Early trail, possibly near South Cooking Lake MMunicipalunicipal DDistrictistrict tracts of land. Between 1960 and 1989 image: Strathcona County Museum & Archives 1964 ElkElk IslandIsland Elk Island of Strathcona No. 83 Elk IslandIsland no less than 16 annexations changed 19801980 County of NNationalational PParkark NNationalational PParkark LLocalocal Improvement District No. 517 NationalNational PParkark ofof CaCanadanada the shape of the east and north County of ofof Canada CCurrenturrent StrathconaStrathcona CCountyounty boundaries ofof Canada StrathconaStrathcona No.No. 20 boundaries of the municipality. Strathcona No. 20 Lakeview Pavilion image: Strathcona County CookingCooking Lake-BlackfootLake-B CookinCookingg LakeLake-Blackfoot-B CookingCooking Lake-BlackfootLake-B Current Strathcona County boundaries oovincialvincialv RecreaRecreation Area Current Strathcona County boundaries vincialv RecrRecreationea Area vincialvincial RecreationRecrea Area

1877 - 1888 Local Improvementement District No. 518 Papaschase Cree Reserve Papaschase Cree Reserve image: Alberta Legislature Library Current Strathcona County boundaries

Sutherland Family Farm, c. 1907 image: Strathcona County Museum & Archives