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- BUILDING PERMITS TOP $100 MILLION FOR FIRST TIME DRAMATICALLY: 1978
The amount of new construction in Red Deer in 1978 was truly staggering. For the first time in history, the value of building permits issued by the City of Red Deer broke the $100 million mark. - JOBS LOST, PAY CUT AS DEPRESSION HIT BOTTOM: 1922
People often think of the Great De¬pression of the 1930s as the worst economic times ever experienced. However, at least for Central Al¬berta, one can argue that times were much worse in the depression that followed the end of the First World War. - JOFFRE OIL FIND SPURS ECONOMIC BOOM: 1953
On July 2, 1953, John Morton, of the Brookfield district near Joffre, signed a lease with Canadian Superior for a wild¬cat oil well northeast of Red Deer. - NAMES OF RED DEER
When the hamlet of Red Deer was first developed in November 1890, all the streets and avenues were given names by the Calgary and Edmonton Railway Company and their agents, Osler, Hammond and Nanton of Winnipeg who developed and marketed the townsite. - RAIL YARD RELOCATION OPENS LAND FOR DEVELOPMENT: 1991
In November 1990, almost 100 years to the day after the railroad first reached Red Deer, the Canadian Pacific Railway began moving its tracks to a new location on the west side of the city. - REAL-ESTATE COLLAPSE LEFT RED DEER NEAR BANKRUPT: 1921
In November 1921, the Calgary-Edmonton Townsite Co. offered to turn over all of their property in Red Deer to the city in order to clear up the tens of thousands of dollars of taxes owing on the company's holdings. - RED DEER BECAME ALBERTA'S SEVENTH CITY: 1913
During the early part of the last century, Red Deer enjoyed one of the greatest booms in its history. The population of the community increased ten¬fold from a mere 323 in 1901, when Red Deer was incorpo¬rated as a town, to nearly 3,000 a dozen years later in 1913. - RED DEER BECOMES A DIVISIONAL POINT FOR CPR: 1907
Sometimes major news stories do not get a lot of attention, at least not at first. - RED DEER BECOMES ALBERTA'S FOURTH-LARGEST CITY: 1966
On Feb. 1, 1966, Red Deer was officially declared the fourth-largest city in Alberta. The 1966 civic census put Red Deer's population at 25,752, while Medicine Hat was officially recorded as having a population of 25,376. - RED DEER GREW QUICKLY DURING EARLY BOOM: 1912
Red Deer has enjoyed a number of remarkable boom years over the past century. Still, it is hard to equal the won¬derful growth and heady sense of op¬timism that the community enjoyed in 1912.