Monday, December 14, 2015

Whitla, Alberta

wintry road of Whitla
Dec 14 – A ghost town.  Homesteading began in 1908.   By 1910 there were: a general store, a lumberyard, a hardware store, a farm machinery firm, a Union Bank, several cafes, and three auto repair shops.  The agricultural decline, and thus the decline of the town, began in the 1920s. 

info:  Wikipedia.com

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