D Is For Dimsdale
On September 23, 1924, an announcement appeared in the Grande Prairie Herald, that a new town had been created on the western extension of the
On September 23, 1924, an announcement appeared in the Grande Prairie Herald, that a new town had been created on the western extension of the
The district of Cornwall, south of Ridgevalley, was named for nearby Cornwall Creek, which in turn was named after “Peace River Jim” Cornwall, MLA for
On April 25, 1935 the Northern Tribune carried an article which began, “On Tuesday evening of last week Bridgeview players presented the drama, ‘Dust of
This blog is an attempt to continue Kathryn’s “Country Roads” series, and I will start with “A” for “Appleton”. This farming community grew up around
The wandering newspaper editor J.B. Yule visited the Hythe area in 1943. He noted some impressive buildings on the Patterson Bros. Stock Farm, and a
According to the writer of this article, a modern hotel is the dream of every town, and for many years Beaverlodge had longed for this
This month, Country Roads heads north to Rycroft for a sad story about a lion which escaped from a circus. While the lion did seem
Still with the Country Roads theme, this story took place at a dam near the hospital in Rycroft. While saying that an Ogopogo had been
Just as the article says, this story is stranger than fiction. A woman from Horse Lake had a dream about where to find the bodies
This month’s Country Roads heads to Grovedale for an account of the first homesteaders south of the Wapiti River. William Gabler had spent part of