The Town of PROVOST Business & Community Profile A Thriving CommuniTy, geAred for growTh. A compendium of business and residential resources, key contacts, community profiles, special features and the attractions that make the Town of Provost an ideal home and place to do business. Provost Economic Development 4904 - 51 Avenue, Box 449 Provost, AB T0B 3S0 P: 780-753-2261 F: 780-753-6889 email: [email protected] www.dreamscreatethefuture.ca Project Co-Ordinator Gary Duffett , Provost Economic Development Contents welcome! A Proud & growing : Photos message from the A message from Town of Provost 6 mayor 7 economic development The Town of Provost regional Publisher Provost: A history history TNC Publishing Group 8 10 The Town of Business Provost: excellent resources Marketing Director 12 growth Potential Erwin Jack 14 The Town of Key Contacts Provost Coat of Graphic Designer 15 Arms 16 Anne Allen Provost Airport Town map Marketing 18 28 Juliet Stroud pages loCal Business Administration 19-27 ProFiles Nancy Salatino Thriving and A Legacy of nhL geared for Stars 29 growth 30 The Provost The greenhead Livestock route 32 exchange 33 The Provost Business & Community Profile is published by TNC Publishing Group in conjunction Places of interest Trail rides with and for The Provost Economic Development Committee. 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I am very proud of our Wings and we cannot forget Curtis community and very proud of the fact that Glencross and Lance Bouma who play for we offer a large number of recreational the Calgary Flames. organizations and service clubs with access to many amenities such as a new Although we are continuing to grow with multipurpose sports centre that houses an new businesses starting up we cannot excellent ice arena along with an indoor forget those who have been here for a very running track and exercise facility. Located long time and can be found on Main Street. just outside this facility is an outdoor Home Hardware recently celebrated over a swimming pool, campsite with RV sites, hundred years of service. Across the street large ball diamonds, a skateboard park and to the north, Provost Insurance still a beautiful 12 hole golf course. Our operates out of a building that was built in educational needs are met by the Provost the early 1900s. Located a little further Public School and St. Thomas Aquinas north is The Provost News , who started separate school both offering grades K-12. their first newspaper, The Provost Star in 1910. We also have our very own Our community is home to a number of professional photography business, Dirks oilfield service companies, many of them Photography, who constantly produce prize owned and operated by local residents. We winning photography. Our community was are also supported by mixed farming and awarded the “Communities in Bloom” cattle operations and are very proud of our awards in 2008 and 2012. many multi-generation farms. Our Town office is located at 4904-51 Ave. We recently had two new hotels built as We are open Monday to Friday from 8:30 well as our local hotel and motels who have a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Our friendly staff would completed some very nice upgrades which be more than happy to assist you with all of are a welcomed site to our busy your needs. I hope that this publication and community. We have fewer number of our website provide you with most of your industrial lots for sale since this past year answers about our community, but if you as well as fewer residential lots that are have any additional questions, please do not located in a newly formed subdivision hesitate to contact myself or any member located just east of our golf course. of Council, our Administrator or Economic Development office at 780-753-2261. Our community can boast over the fact that we have produced four NHL hockey players. Kenneth Knox John Chad, born in Provost in 1919 who Mayor Proud And growing A Message from Provost Economic Development On behalf of the Town of Provost Economic diamonds, an RV park and fairgrounds that Development, I would like to thank are extremely busy during the summer everyone who participated in the promotion months, and especially during the famous of this new magazine. This publication is a Kinsmen Smash and Splash, which is held community effort, which is supported by in June of each year. the Town of Provost Mayor and Council. The oil activity and agricultural aspect We are very proud of our community and within the MD of Provost keeps our proud to say that we have experienced a community growing. The beef industry 20% growth since 1980 to a population brings many people to our town during the over 2000 in 2014. Provost is very proud many livestock auctions. Thousands of to have third generation local businesses, head of cattle pass through our community, and proud of those who have chosen but some remain and are processed locally Provost as their home and the start of a at Bouma Meats & Provost Packers who are new beginning. Businesses continue to pop well known for their excellent cuts and up every year. A very recent addition is a choices of meat. brand new 16,000 square foot shop built for the many trucks operated by Hellian We are located right on Highway 13 that Oilfield Services. New homes continue to be runs east and west. We are only 19 kms built in the new subdivision located on the west of the border town of Macklin, southeast of town. We have a great Saskatchewan. Every day you can see hospital, complete with an emergency many large oil trucks hauling oil west to the ward, nursing home and acute care facility. Gibsons terminal facility located at Hardisty. If you are a senior looking for a retirement We can also boast about being close to one home, we have a state of the art facility of the largest Canadian Army training known as Hillcrest Lodge which is located centres, northwest of us at CFB across the street from the hospital and Wainwright. within walking distance from our Medical Centre. If you would like any information about the Town of Provost please call or visit our We have a brand new 12 million dollar website at www.townofprovost.ca . recreation facility complete with an arena, running track, exercise facility and outdoor Gary Duffett swimming pool, surrounded by baseball Provost Economic Development Provost, 1915, looking North. hiSTory The Town of Provost was first called “Lakeview” because of the close proximity of Fleeing Horse Lake. It was the closest railroad point to the northeast, so it became the starting point overland for many of its settlers. In 1907, CPR Land Department named the village “Provost”. The origin of the name In 1909 the Town of Provost was appears to be somewhat confused. The established by the Canadian Pacific Railroad name was given to the village by the C.P.R. (CPR). and it comes from a Scottish word meaning “magistrate” but whether that is how it had In 1910 Provost was incorporated as a its beginning or whether or not it was Village with Mr. N.A. Kilburn as the first named after an official of the C.P.R is not Reeve. Along with his fellow councillors, clear. Mr. John Campbell, Fred Larson and Jacob Brue, they set the precedent for keeping the P.O. Foss and J. Brue started one of the town “Neat & Tidy.” first businesses in 1907. In 1952 the Village of Provost became a On November 18, 1908 the Provost School Town with Mr. Dave Johnstone as Mayor. Division was organized. Mr. Johnstone was known for being the owner of Johnstone Lumber. Provost, 1946, looking North. Provost, 1948, looking East. The first town policeman was Sam Dewar, Mr. Henry Fabros Paulgaard of Norway followed by Howard Burn and Mr. Tom settled in Provost and acquired one of the Morell, who was responsible for working first homesteads, paid $10.00, broke and cultivating the lovely boulevards of ground for 30 acres, and was required to trees, as this was his hobby. live in the same place for six months of each year for three years. ProvoST: Provost, 1955, looking NE. A regionAL hiSTory The Archaeological record indicates there has been human habitation in The Provost Region for hundreds, possibly thousands of years. Artifacts discovered at the Bodo Archaeological Site indicate area residents engaged in trade with other groups both before and after contact with Europeans. When Treaty 6 was signed, First Nations who had occupied lands in what is now Alberta and Saskatchewan officially relinquished their title to the land and surrendered those rights to the interests of the British Crown and the expanding Dominion of Canada. In 1879, at Sounding made the overland trip with their wives Lake, Chief Thunderchild of the Cree people from Louisville, near Wetaskiwin, bringing instructed his representatives to sign an along settlers’ effects, and haying adhesion to the treaty.