Tuesday January 19th 2021 In 2020 the Chestermere Historical Foundation entered into a partnership with the Western Irrigation District to produce signs around Chestermere of significant historic events and places with an emphasis on the history of farming and irrigation in this area. CHF was charged with creating a tentative …
It was a long hard road but it had to happen and it finally did! Chestermere became its own municipality March 22nd 1977! Hear that story from Chestermere’s first Mayor, Bill Porter accompanied by his wife Arlene in a recorded 2019 interview. This takes place Tuesday November …
Join CHF Members for their next meeting Tuesday October 20th 1pm at Camp Chestermere and to follow, at 2pm, ‘Chestermere Stampedes–and More’ (The Chestermere Community Cooperative Association) with presenter CHF member and long time community resident Eileen McElroy. Everyone welcome! Family friendly. (COVID guidelines in place please wear a mask.) …
Check out a new story about a cabin on the lake, this time a local farm family ( The Lesters) who took advantage of the nearby watering hole. Click here. (last one on story index). The next regular meeting of Chestermere Historical Foundation will be Tuesday August 18th at the …
A Scottish born ditchrider next, Edward Ross, who arrived in Canada 1909 bringing wife Elizabeth ( Betty) and daughter Edna over in 1910. Living in Winnipeg, then Wardlow, they eventually settled into the Winona District ditchrider home, near Baintree, close to Rockyford. They lived there until 1939. That year, Ed …
James Henry May was born in Butte, Montana, one of five children, the only one born in the USA to the May family. Mr May, his wife Beatrice and their family moved to Chestermere in the spring of 1938. The little Chestermere ditchrider house was swelled with happy guests when …
Join CHF Members for their regular meeting 10am on Tuesday June 16th. On the agenda, discussion of the Policy on Aquisitions, AND workers for the upcoming Casino July 29/30th. And at 11am stay for a 45 minute program ” What Kay Saved” with a sampling of the wonderful scrapbooks left …
Unlike his predecessors in this job, John Smith McKay was born in Canada. After marrying Alice Walls, the family moved from Chatham NB, to Calgary where six sons were born ( one died as an infant). After a stint of farming near Strathmore, John took on the job of ditchrider …
One of eight children, Frederick George Woods was like many who left England to seek a better life. Born in Midsomer Norton, Somerset, he set forth from Liverpool in 1906 and never looked back. Eventually arriving in the Calgary area he signed on as a CPR ditchrider …
The third in a series of stories about the men who managed the water at Chestermere Lake, Reservoir #1 of the CPR Western Irrigation Section. The second of our fellows Joseph McKay Bannerman was also born in Scotland and like many young men came to Canada to find work and …
