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Nightingale, Alberta
Nightingale is a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada within Wheatland County. It is located 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) west of Highway 21, approximately 53 kilometres (33 mi) east of Calgary.
Nightingale is named after Florence Nightingale.
Nightingale, like most of Wheatland County, is generally flat, with some rugged topography on its eastern border towards Drumheller. Several wetlands and marshes fall within the Nightingale area. The hamlet marks the approximate halfway point of Serviceberry Creek.
Writing in 1979, a local history by the Nightingale Community Association described the hamlet's soil as loamy and alluvial. In 2016, Wheatland County described the soil around Nightingale's settlements as presenting "severe to... very severe" limitations for agriculture in 2016.
In 1904, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) purchased three million acres of land in Treaty 7 territory between Medicine Hat and Calgary. To make the dry plains suitable for agriculture, the CPR implemented an irrigation system to divert water from the Bow River to a man-made reservoir, later named Chestermere Lake.
Hoping to encourage permanent settlement in southern Alberta, the CPR began selling the irrigated land. Lots were offered with a house, barn and well already erected. Furthermore, the lots were grouped together in ready-made farming colonies. Most early purchasers were American speculators who intended to resell the lots for profit.
The CPR, believing that British families would be likelier to establish permanent farms, began advertising to this demographic. This followed an aggressive advertising campaign overseen by then-Minister of the Interior, Clifford Sifton, to encourage Europeans to move to Western Canada. Aiming to portray the region as an attractive place to live, the Ministry targeted Europe's agricultural working class through exhibitions, promotional materials, and editorials in foreign newspapers.
Nightingale, as one of the areas promoted to British families, received the first group of settlers from Britain March 25, 1910. The inaugural party comprised twenty-four families. Initially, the area was known informally as the 'English colony,' though most arrivals were Scottish, Welsh, or from Ireland.
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Nightingale, Alberta
Nightingale is a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada within Wheatland County. It is located 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) west of Highway 21, approximately 53 kilometres (33 mi) east of Calgary.
Nightingale is named after Florence Nightingale.
Nightingale, like most of Wheatland County, is generally flat, with some rugged topography on its eastern border towards Drumheller. Several wetlands and marshes fall within the Nightingale area. The hamlet marks the approximate halfway point of Serviceberry Creek.
Writing in 1979, a local history by the Nightingale Community Association described the hamlet's soil as loamy and alluvial. In 2016, Wheatland County described the soil around Nightingale's settlements as presenting "severe to... very severe" limitations for agriculture in 2016.
In 1904, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) purchased three million acres of land in Treaty 7 territory between Medicine Hat and Calgary. To make the dry plains suitable for agriculture, the CPR implemented an irrigation system to divert water from the Bow River to a man-made reservoir, later named Chestermere Lake.
Hoping to encourage permanent settlement in southern Alberta, the CPR began selling the irrigated land. Lots were offered with a house, barn and well already erected. Furthermore, the lots were grouped together in ready-made farming colonies. Most early purchasers were American speculators who intended to resell the lots for profit.
The CPR, believing that British families would be likelier to establish permanent farms, began advertising to this demographic. This followed an aggressive advertising campaign overseen by then-Minister of the Interior, Clifford Sifton, to encourage Europeans to move to Western Canada. Aiming to portray the region as an attractive place to live, the Ministry targeted Europe's agricultural working class through exhibitions, promotional materials, and editorials in foreign newspapers.
Nightingale, as one of the areas promoted to British families, received the first group of settlers from Britain March 25, 1910. The inaugural party comprised twenty-four families. Initially, the area was known informally as the 'English colony,' though most arrivals were Scottish, Welsh, or from Ireland.