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- RED DEER'S BID TO BECOME ALBERTA'S CAPITAL
While the “autonomy” bills were being passed to give provincehood to Alberta, Red Deer, in the midst of a great development boom, decided that it should be the capital of the new province. - RED DEER'S PIONEER OIL BOOM
While most people view the discovery of oil at Leduc in 1947 as the start of Alberta's great oil and gas boom, in fact there was a much earlier "black gold" rush in Alberta " the Turner Valley oil strike of 1914. - RICH HISTORY IN REAL ESTATE
Robert (Bob) G. Rich had an early beginning in the Calgary real estate industry. - ROY WILSON: A REAL ESTATE VISIONARY
I'm older than dirt so it doesn't take much to keep me busy anymore, Roy Wilson remarks with a smile during our interview. - SECOND GENERATION REALTOR® KEEPS SUCCESS IN THE FAMILY
If ever there were to be a royal family of Calgary’s real estate industry, it would have to be the Cote clan. - SIGNS OF A COMING RECESSION WERE EVERYWHERE: 1970
The soaring 1960s had been a wonderful decade for Red Deer. The population of the city jumped from 18,000 to nearly 27,000. - STAN CARSCALLEN
Probably the strongest boom that Red Deer ever enjoyed occurred in the years prior to the First World War. One of the major figures in that boom was Stan Carscallen. - SUBDIVISIONS OF RED DEER
One hundred years ago, the new Town of Red Deer began to grow. New subdivisions started to be developed outside the original townsite. Some were very small areas and were given such names as Rosedale and River Park on the south bank of the River and Brookside on the west side of Waskasoo Creek. - SUSTAINABILITY AT HOME
"Sustainability at Home: A Toolkit" is a publication by Natural Step funded in part by the Alberta Real Estate Foundation, which is a guide for homeowners to reduce their environmental footprint, by conserving water and power, and reducing their use of chemicals. This article is a summary of the origins and content of the publication. - THE BUILDER OF THE FIRST FORT EDMONTON
William Tomison of the Hudson's Bay Company was a builder, trader and adventurer from the Orkney Islands, Scotland, who built the first Fort Edmonton.