Red Deer and District Real Estate History
The author of this book, Wellington Dawe, is the late uncle of Head Archivist Michael Dawe of the Red Deer and District Archives. History of Red Deer, Alberta is an account of the economic and developmental history of Red Deer before the 1950s.
Chapter 1: Origins and Early Development
Chapter 2: Economic Development of Red Deer and its Tributary Area
By Wellington Dawe
Copyright © 1954 Kiwanis Club of Red Deer
82 pages - six sepia photos, four chapters, two appendices, and a report on farming in the Red Deer District.
6 x 9, out of print
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Today, Central Alberta is a prosperous region with strong oil, natural gas, and agricultural industries, and the economic capital of Central Alberta is Red Deer, Alberta’s third largest city. But Central Alberta began merely as a series of stops on the Calgary-Edmonton Trail.
These articles on Central Alberta’s real estate history document the growth of Red Deer, Wetaskiwin, Camrose, Ponoka, Lacombe and Stettler, from the boom times at the turn of the century, to the recession that spanned two world wars, and the post-war construction that modernized Central Alberta. At the heart of this story is Central Alberta’s real estate industry, which spawned the Central Alberta REALTORS® Association.