The temperature poked around the 20 degree mark on May 2, 1914- the day municipal inspector A.D. Fidler came to town. Prior to his arrival, the stars seemed to be aligning for the little settlement on the banks of the Bow. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with [...]
A map of the community of Bow City as it existed in May 1914. Click on image to view larger map. ———– Above is a map of Bow City in May 1914 that I have pieced together from documents included within the archives of Alberta’s Department of Municipal Affairs. Some points of clarification about the map: [...]
As residents of the Bow City district were agitating for the construction of any kind of bridge across the Bow in early 1914, the boosters of the village continued their promotional efforts, in-spite of the community’s obvious deficiencies. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about [...]
Cairn commemorating the descendants of the Herrick family farming on the same land for 100 years in Vulcan County, south of “downtown” Bow City. ———- Going into the fall of 1913, the Board of Trade continued their efforts to make Bow City an incorporated municipality. In preparation for becoming a village, the Board initiated the [...]
With the arrival of Herbert Chandler Pierce, the townsite at Bow City really began to take off. H.C. Pierce-a farmer, real estate agent, Liberal M.P.P. (Member of Provincial Parliament) for Wadena, SK., and secretary-treasurer of the H.C. Pierce Land Co. Pierce-breezed into Bow City in early 1913 after acquiring the west half of 10-17-17 W4 from [...]
Abandoned structure next to steel grain bin in “downtown” Bow City (September 2009). With a mine at Bow City in full operation since 1909, the Prairie Coal Company Ltd. began to realize some success in promoting its properties to investors in North America and the United Kingdom. In 1910, nearby homesteader Daniel Scroggie opened a [...]
April 28, 2010 – 10:44 am
Caption included with photo: “This block of coal, being from top to bottom of the seam, was banded with wood at the mine, hauled 25 miles to Brooks C.P.R. station over prairie trail taken to Regina over freight train unloaded on to a wagon, hauled to the exhibition grounds and placed on stand, bands removed [...]
April 13, 2010 – 11:29 am
Survey of the Bow City townsite, circa. 1910-11 with additional concept plan for W1/2 10-17-17 W4 by Canadian Pittsburg (sic) Realty Company. Provincial Archives of Alberta Once a mine had been opened along the south bank of the Bow River, Bow City Collieries Ltd. began to focus their attention on promotion of the townsite it [...]
Save for the odd foundation or slag heap amidst the short native grasses, as you head west on Hwy. 539 past the Bow City Bridge, little evidence remains to be seen of the village that many predicted would give Calgary a run for the title of biggest city on the Bow. However, in the years [...]
March 19, 2010 – 12:58 pm
Located about thirty-five miles southwest of Brooks and twenty-five due south of Bassano, Kinnondale was, for a short time, the hub of what is now eastern Vulcan County. Kinnondale was named after John Crawford McKinnon of Bruce, Ontario, one of the region’s first settlers. After homesteading in 1908, McKinnon opened the first store in the [...]
