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History: Pathfinding Beyond the Peace – Part 1

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History: Fort Normandeau – A Link with Red Deer’s Pioneer Days

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Fort St. John, a century-and-a-half old trading post.
History, Our History

History: Pathfinding Beyond the Peace – Part 1

Reprinted from the November 1951 issue of Canadian Cattlemen


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Pathfinding Beyond the Peace By Philip H. Godsell, F.R.G.S. ‘In 1912 the author hunted moose with Beaver Indians north of Fort St. John. In 1925 he was sent to the same country again by the Hudson’s Bay Company to open an overland road and establish trading posts to drive out the “free traders”. Here he […] Read more
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History: Some Considerations in the Selection of Feeder Cattle

Reprinted from the November 1951 issue of Canadian Cattlemen


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Some Considerations in the Selection of Feeder Cattle By J. W. Grant MacEwan, Winnipeg, Manitoba ‘After one has made the decision to purchase feeders for winter fattening and has assessed his feed supplies, the next logical consideration will have to do with the particular class of cattle to be selected. The operator may ask himself […] Read more
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History: The Big Steers of Yesteryears

Reprinted from the October 1951 issue of Canadian Cattlemen


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Abridged from the October 1951 issue of Canadian Cattlemen


By Grant MacEwan, former dean of agriculture at the Universities of Manitoba and Saskatchewan and (in 1951) associate editor of Canadian Cattlemen.  Like petticoats, busties, blunderbusses and burnside whiskers, big steers had their day and their story is worth noting. Great size has always had dramatic appeal about it. Fortunately there is a record of […] Read more
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History: Old Hermitage Farm

Reprinted from the June 1951 edition of Canadian Cattlemen

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Old Hermitage Farm By W. Murphy ‘A housing shortage at Fort Edmonton in 1875, as serious as that experienced in mushrooming modern Edmonton, was the genesis of “Old Hermitage Farm.” Fort Edmonton of 1875 was a bustling, crowded trading post, one of the most important of the Hudson’s Bay Company settlements in the Territories. It […] Read more
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History: Hartnett Appointed GM of Calgary Stampede

Reprinted from the October 1951 edition of Canadian Cattlemen

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‘Commencing November 1st the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede Co. Ltd., will have a new general Manager. Maurice E. Hartnett, a young man, age 46, with an agricultural background and training and experience in administrative work, will assume his new duties on that date. He will succeed J. Chas. Yule who for eleven years filled that […] Read more
Old Fort Normandeau near Red Deer, Alta.
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History: Fort Normandeau – A Link with Red Deer’s Pioneer Days

Reprinted from the October 1951 edition of Canadian Cattlemen

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Fort Normandeau – A Link with Red Deer’s Pioneer Days By Annie L. Gaetz, Red Deer, Alta. ‘There was consternation among the little handful of settlers at the Red Deer Crossing, when, about sundown on April 7th a horseman came dashing across the river from the north to tell them that the Indians had broken […] Read more
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History: Royalty Entertained at Calgary by “Royal Winter Stampede”

Reprinted from the November 1951 edition of Canadian Cattlemen

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Royalty Entertained at Calgary by “Royal Winter Stampede” By Lorne Stout, Calgary, Alta. ‘Southern Alberta carved itself a special niche in the Canadian tour of Princess Elizabeth and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh with the first, and what may be the world’s only Royal Winter Stampede. It was a 90 minute edition of the […] Read more
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History: Bunkhouse Philosophy – The St. Mary’s Dam

Reprinted from the September 1951 edition of Canadian Cattlemen

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By W.R. Cochrane, Cowley, Alta., from the September 1951 edition of Canadian Cattlemen

By W.R. Cochrane, Cowley, Alta. When the Honorable James G. Gardiner officially opened the St. Mary’s Dam project by opening the valve that started the water flowing through the huge tunnel to ultimately provide irrigation facilities for a huge block of dry land, we reckon a lot of folks did not quite grasp the effect […] Read more
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History: From the Nation’s Capital

Reprinted from the September 1951
 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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From the Nation’s Capital By M. L. Schwartz B.A., L.L.B. (special correspondent) ‘Canadian cattlemen will be interested to learn that loud whispers heard backstage in this nation’s capital indicate quite clearly now that the opposition to price controls which have directly or indirectly held down cattle prices in United States is growing so strong that […] Read more
The new bridge replaces the ferry.
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History: Buffalo Bridge

Reprinted from the October 1951
 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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Buffalo Bridge By Freda Smith Mudiman, Swift Current, Sask.  ‘Streams flowing eastward from the Rocky Mountains from the North and South Branches of the great Saskatchewan River as it swiftly slips down to the sea. Thought the years many bridges have spanned these streams since the day when the first was built across the Sturgeon, […] Read more

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