“If you know the past of the place where you live, you care about it more. You recognize, it isn’t just mine, it isn’t just for now, there were others here before me who cared for the place, who improved it ... and it puts in mind that there’s a future too." Harry Sanders, Historian
“It’s very difficult for a society to grapple with deep questions of its own identity without having a sense of its own past.” – Ben Fullalove ACAD How did the City of Chestermere come to be? If you are new to Chestermere you probably never thought about how this city …
Becoming a Member Chestermere has a Fascinating Historical Story We have many new residents to the City of Chestermere and very few know how it came to be. What an interesting story we have: the opening of the West, the Canadian Pacific Railway, the creation of the Western Irrigation District, …
