Early Communities of Strathcona County Lamont County Gold on a Bar in the North Homestead in What Is Now the North-West Territories
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1903-04 1914 1928 1947 1986 The First World War breaks out. The City of Edmonton builds a seaplane base Imperial Oil’sOil s Leduc No.No. 1 well blowsb in February 13. Cooking Lake is The Strathcona County Heritage As a consequence, investment at South Cooking Lake. Later, in 1980, the becoming Edmonton’s Subsequent discoveries usher Foundation is established, money dries up and Alberta’s Alberta governmentgg 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 Strathcona County 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 Beaver Hills are frequentedq Métis from as far away as Lac La Biche 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 Cree as late as the 1850s. Anne meet at Beaverhill Lake 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 floatsfloats at CookingCooking LakeLake 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, iimage:mage: Provincial Archives of Alberta, P2733 The Bremner Church is of seasonal prehistoric occupation.occupatio 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 Fort Saskatchewan. 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. Range Road 210 Range Road 205 Range Road 204 Range Road 211 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 1890 1900 1910 Pre-historic 1670 1850 1860 1870 1880 Range Road 212 Range Road 213 Rang Range Road 215 Range Road 214 e Road 220 Township Road 565 38 Township Road 564 Sturgeon County 1960s 1860s 1891 1905 830 Sherwood Park Freeway was built in the 1960s by the Province of Alberta Thomas Clover, a California The first immigrants from the Austro- The Province of Alberta is bbetweenetween the rapidly growinggrowing hamlet 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 Lamont County gold on a bar in the North homestead in what is now the North-West Territories. Saskatchewan River east of Josephburg 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 Bruderheim 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 Canada (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. CaCarscadden 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 iinn 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 Fort Edmonton, 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-nd-3-3528b3-3528b 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 Hastings Lake 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 Calgary 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 Elk 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 North Saskatchewan River 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 Antler Lake 1871.