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History: The Morley Trading Post

Reprinted from the August 1950 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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Thousands of travellers on the Canadian Pacific Railway going through Morley, forty-two miles west of Calgary, have noticed with passing glances a small frame building just East of the Station and outside the railway’s right-of-way fence. Few if any small Trading Posts in the West have a more interesting history than this insignificant small structure. […] Read more
The above steer tied his right front leg with a perfect knot of light willows and was dead when found. The two-year-old steer was owned by Albert Nemetz of Byemoor, Alta. Picture taken by H. H. Cooper, Byemoor, Alta.
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History: Home on the Kootenay Plains

Reprinted from the August 1950 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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Home on the Kootenay Plains By John Laurie, Calgary, Alta. ‘”My children are hungry; they cry in the night. My young men have empty stomachs and there is no meat in my camp. So I and mine go back to the Kootenay Plains. There we shall have meat and the children shall grow fat and […] Read more
The above collection was derived from the interior of British Columbia.
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History: Stories in stone

Reprinted from the August 1950 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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Stories in stone By Frank Fleming, Calgary, Alta. ‘A peaceful stillness hangs heavily over the land. Through the forested mountain slopes range the grizzly, the elk, moose and mountain goat. The white man has not yet arrived in the country and the interior of British Columbia is still the exclusive home of a primitive people, the […] Read more
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History: The May blizzard of 1903

Reprinted from the August 1950 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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The May blizzard of 1903 By Mary Terrill, Medicine Hat, Alta. ‘The range was lush in this short grass country of southern Alberta in the spring of 1903. It was the lushness of two immediately preceding years of ample snowfall, and an abundance of rain in the growing season, followed by an early spring in the […] Read more
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History: Homesteading in the Hand Hills

Reprinted from the August 1950 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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Homesteading in the Hand Hills By Harvey Hanson, Balzac, Alta. ‘In a previous article in the “Canadian Cattlemen” I told how a portion of the Palliser Triangle in Alberta at one time had people on nearly every quarter section and how you can now drive for miles and not see a soul. It is that […] Read more
History: Up-to-Date on Foot and Mouth Disease
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History: Up-to-Date on Foot and Mouth Disease

Reprinted from the August 1950 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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(Taken from the June, 1950, issue “The Agricultural Situation”, U.S. Department of Agriculture) ‘Foot-and-mouth disease has been menacing the livestock industry of the United States from below our southern border for the past 3 years. The plague appeared late in 1946 in an explosive outbreak that spread through central Mexico, covering an area of over 200,000 […] Read more
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History: The Internal Change in the Commercial Beef Industry of Canada

Reprinted from the July 1950 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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The Internal Change in the Commercial Beef Industry of Canada By Edward H. Burles, Calgary, Alta. ‘During the late 1800’s and possibly the first 10 years of the present century it was the general practice to sell by the head depending on the age and sex. Following this period there was a swing to price […] Read more
History: Ottawa Letter
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History: Ottawa Letter

Reprinted from the June 1950 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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Ottawa Letter By Senator F.W. Gershaw  The venture of grazing cattle on the prairies of southern Alberta started in 1880 by a few enterprising cattlemen bringing in herds from Montana. These cattle were turned loose to rustle a living the year round without any provision for their food or shelter, beyond what nature afforded. This […] Read more
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History: Calgarians of Yesteryear Recalled on the City’s 75th Anniversary

Reprinted from the July 1950 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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Calgarians of Yesteryear Recalled on the City’s 75th Anniversary By Leishman McNeil, Calgary, Alta. ‘Folklore, Folklore, what is Folklore? Webster says “the traditional beliefs, and customs of the common people.” To a country 75 years old, Western Canada is hardly entitled by age to contain much Folklore, yet Dr. Robert Gard of Cornell University has […] Read more

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