N&Q4 - HistoryExplore
A Mensa group recently toured historical sections of Mission and Cliff-Bungalow on a lovely Sunday afternoon. We found some of the less obtrusive buildings as beautiful as those that have been extensively refurbished. For example, did you know Alberta Ballet is housed in an elegant CNR train station that was originally St. Mary’s parish hall? The first trains arrived in 1913 and the last in 1971.
Which takes us by strange detour to 1932, when a local farmer started to market milk from his Springbank dairy farm. In 1934, he moved the operation to the building pictured below, which became a modern processing plant. To foster sanitation, the farmer used only brick in the structure. Milk bottles appropriately decorated the exterior, and his was the first dairy in Alberta to use trucks for distribution. Eventually, 85 vehicles carried milk to locations in Calgary. In the 1960s, this dairy had the largest production of any in Alberta, and it was sold to Palm Dairies in 1965. Do you know what is presently at the site? (For the answer, see the puzzle section in this issue.)
