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Mormon Trail (Canada)
Canada's Mormon Trail has a variety of National Historic Sites, Provincial Historic Sites and many points of interest that display the unique cultural heritage the Mormons have had in the settling of Southern Alberta. The Mormon Trail begins with the Village Stirling and follows highway 52 and highway 3 to Cardston. Communities along the trail; (see also LDS Settlements in Canada) * Village of Stirling * Town of Raymond * Hamlet of Welling * Town of Magrath * Hamlet of Spring Coulee * Hamlet of Woolford * Town of Cardston * Hamlet of Leavitt * Village of Mountain View Historical Sites and points of interest; (see also List of attractions and landmarks in Stirling, Alberta) *Stirling Agricultural Village - National Historic Site *Galt Historic Railway Park, Stirling *Michelsen Farmstead, Stirling * William T. Ogden House *Raymond Museum *Raymond Golf club *Farm Safety Centre, Raymond *Galt Canal Nature Trail, Magrath - National Historic Site *Magrath Golf Club * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mormon Pioneers Coming Off Big Mountain Into Mountain Dell
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Stirling Agricultural Village
Stirling Agricultural Village was designated as a National Historic Site of Canada on June 22, 1989. The site was designated as a national historical site of Canada because it is the best surviving example of a Mormon agricultural village. The ''Michelsen Farmstead'' was the focus of the community, and is now a totally restored museum, listed as a Provincial Historic Site in 2001. The ''Galt Historic Railway Park'' is another popular museum located in this historic site. History Stirling was founded on May 5, 1899, by Theodore Brandley. The village was one of two communities that owed its existence to a partnership between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Charles A. Magrath of the North Western Coal and Navigation Company. Stirling was named after John A. Stirling, managing director of The Trusts, Executors and Securities Corporation of London, which owned shares in the Alberta Coal and Railway Company. After arriving at the Stirling siding, Theodore Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latter-day Saint Settlements In Canada
{{LDSpolygamy The following communities were founded by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Alberta: * 1887 — Cardston * 1888 — Aetna * 1890 — Mountain View * 1891 — Beazer * 1893 — Leavitt * 1897 — Kimball * 1898 — Caldwell, Magrath, Stirling, Taylorville * 1901 — Orton, Raymond * 1902 — Frankburg, Taber * 1908 — Glenwood * 1910 — Hillspring The following communities were founded by LDS Church members or missionaries: * Woolford * Jefferson * Del Bonita See also * Mormon colonies in Mexico * Mormon Corridor * Mormon Trail (Canada) * The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Canada Since its organization in New York in 1830, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) has had a presence in Canada. The church's first missionaries to preach outside of the United States preached in Upper Canada; the first stak ... External links Multicultural CanadaCanada, LDS Pioneer Settlements in Canada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to its west by Nevada. Utah also touches a corner of New Mexico in the southeast. Of the fifty U.S. states, Utah is the 13th-largest by area; with a population over three million, it is the 30th-most-populous and 11th-least-densely populated. Urban development is mostly concentrated in two areas: the Wasatch Front in the north-central part of the state, which is home to roughly two-thirds of the population and includes the capital city, Salt Lake City; and Washington County in the southwest, with more than 180,000 residents. Most of the western half of Utah lies in the Great Basin. Utah has been inhabited for thousands of years by various indigenous groups such as the ancient Puebloans, Navajo and Ute. The Spanish were the first Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pioneer Day (Utah)
Pioneer Day is an official holiday celebrated on July 24 in the American state of Utah, with some celebrations taking place in regions of surrounding states originally settled by Mormon pioneers. It commemorates the entry of Brigham Young and the first group of Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847, where the Latter-day Saints settled after being forced from Nauvoo, Illinois, and other locations in the eastern United States. Parades, fireworks, rodeos, and other festivities help commemorate the event. Similar to July 4, many local and all state-run government offices and many businesses are closed on Pioneer Day. In addition to being an official holiday in Utah, Pioneer Day is considered a special occasion by many members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). On Pioneer Day, some Latter-day Saints walk portions of the Mormon Trail or reenact entering the Salt Lake Valley by handcart. Latter-day Saints throughout the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mormonism
Mormonism is the religious tradition and theology of the Latter Day Saint movement of Restorationist Christianity started by Joseph Smith in Western New York in the 1820s and 1830s. As a label, Mormonism has been applied to various aspects of the Latter Day Saint movement, although there has been a recent push from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) to distance themselves from this label. A historian, Sydney E. Ahlstrom, wrote in 1982, "One cannot even be sure, whether ormonismis a sect, a mystery cult, a new religion, a church, a people, a nation, or an American subculture; indeed, at different times and places it is all of these." However, scholars and theologians within the Latter Day Saint movement, including Smith, have often used "Mormonism" to describe the unique teachings and doctrines of the movement. A prominent feature of Mormon theology is the Book of Mormon, which describes itself as a chronicle of early indigenous peoples of the Americas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mormon Trail
The Mormon Trail is the long route from Illinois to Utah that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traveled for 3 months. Today, the Mormon Trail is a part of the United States National Trails System, known as the Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail. The Mormon Trail extends from Nauvoo, Illinois, which was the principal settlement of the Latter Day Saints from 1839 to 1846, to Salt Lake City, Utah, which was settled by Brigham Young and his followers beginning in 1847. From Council Bluffs, Iowa to Fort Bridger in Wyoming, the trail follows much the same route as the Oregon Trail and the California Trail; these trails are collectively known as the Emigrant Trail. The Mormon pioneer run began in 1846, when Young and his followers were driven from Nauvoo. After leaving, they aimed to establish a new home for the church in the Great Basin and crossed Iowa. Along their way, some were assigned to establish settlements and to plant and harvest crops for lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail was a east–west, large-wheeled wagon route and Westward Expansion Trails, emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon. The eastern part of the Oregon Trail spanned part of what is now the state of Kansas and nearly all of what are now the states of Nebraska and Wyoming. The western half of the trail spanned most of the current states of Idaho and Oregon. The Oregon Trail was laid by fur traders and trappers from about 1811 to 1840 and was only passable on foot or on horseback. By 1836, when the first migrant wagon train was organized in Independence, Missouri, a wagon trail had been cleared to Fort Hall, Idaho. Wagon trails were cleared increasingly farther west and eventually reached all the way to the Willamette Valley in Oregon, at which point what came to be called the Oregon Trail was complete, even as almost annual improvements were made in the form of bridges, cutoffs, ferries, and roads, which made the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Stampede
The Raymond Stampede is an annual rodeo that is held in the town of Raymond, Alberta, Canada every 1 July. Famous for being Alberta's oldest rodeo, the Raymond Stampede is also known for being Canada's oldest professional rodeo, having started a full decade before the Calgary Stampede. Early history The Raymond Stampede was first held on a vacant lot in 1902, as part of the town's first Canada Day celebration. Under the direction of rancher Raymond Knight, cowboys from the surrounding ranches were invited to participate in this first rodeo, which consisted of saddle bronc riding and steer roping. A chute was built for the steer roping, but the bucking horses were all "blindfolded and snubbed" and then ridden until the horse stopped bucking. Ray Knight was the stock contractor, providing bucking horses and roping steers from off his ranch, some miles south of town on the Milk River Ridge. Hundreds of spectators witnessed the first Raymond Stampede. DeLoss Lund, a cowboy from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remington Carriage Museum
The Remington Carriage Museum is located in Cardston, Alberta, Canada. Opened in 1993, and the largest of its kind in the world, the Remington Carriage Museum displays more than 240 carriages. Rated "The Best Indoor Attraction in Canada" four times by Attractions Canada, the . museum has a working stable, carriage rides, video displays, wedding rooms, an 80-seat theatre, Victorian gift shop and restaurant. Carriage history The main exhibit gallery at the museum is arranged in a series of vignettes. Each tells a story of late 19th and early 20th century North American society and the horse-drawn vehicles that were used. In each area, the coaches carts and sleighs displayed are accompanied by panels providing information with hundreds of archival photographs. In the Carriage Preservation Workshop, the public is invited to watch expert technicians carry out the art of blacksmithing, wheelwrighting, woodworking, metalworking and finishing. An elegant outdoor equestrian eventing pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cardston Alberta Temple
The Cardston Alberta Temple (formerly the Alberta Temple) is the eighth constructed and sixth of the still-operating temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Located in Cardston, Alberta, it is the church's oldest temple outside the United States. It is one of eight temples that does not have an angel Moroni statue, and one of six without spires, similar to Solomon's Temple. It is also one of only two temples the church built in the shape of a cross, the other being the Laie Hawaii Temple. History The temple was announced on June 27, 1913, and was built on Temple Hill, an eight-acre plot given to the church by Charles Ora Card. The site expanded to more than in the mid-1950s. The granite used in building the temple was hand-hewn from quarries in Nelson, British Columbia. Originally dedicated on August 26, 1923, by church president Heber J. Grant, an addition was rededicated on July 2, 1962 by Hugh B. Brown. The first temple president was Edward J. Woo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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