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Place name
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Origin
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Name change
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Source
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Alexander Thiele Park
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Edmonton park named after Alexander Harold Thiele
(1920-1981), a German-born lawyer who contributed years of service to
Edmonton's German-Canadian Community.
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EHB
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Beiseker
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Village near Irricana named after Thomas Beiseker from
Gressenden, North Dakota. He bought land from the Calgary Colonization
Company and recruited homesteaders.
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K1
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Bingen
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Post office near Foremost. The post office opened in 1913
and was named after a town in Germany.
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Nemiskam (1916)
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K1
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Bismar(c)k
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A locality near Ponoka, named after Otto von Bismarck,
German statesman and chancellor
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HH
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Blumenau
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Post office near Stettler where Carl Stettler was the
first postmaster (1905-1906).
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HH
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Blumenort
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Locality in the area of La Crete. Named after a Mennonite
colony in Mexico. It was one of the settlements established during the early
1930s by Mennonite families from Saskatchewan, Mexico and South America
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Au
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Blumenthal
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a. Locality 15 miles east and 2 miles south of Pincher
Creek; the congregation consisted of Mennonite immigrants from Russia since
World War I. The church was dedicated in 1935; b. a school district west of
Leduc
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Bruderheim
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A village northeast of Edmonton. A group of members of the
Moravian Church had migrated from Poland to Volhynia, Russia. In 1893-94
Andreas Lilge was sent to Canada to find a suitable site for settlement. As
soon as he located it, more members of the Church came, including Lilge's
brothers. It was in honor of these brothers that the settlers decided to name
their new home "Bruderheim", home of the brothers. – Another
explanation of the name is “brethren in faith.” The post office opened in
1895
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HH
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Bruederfeld
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Moravian settlement in today’s south Edmonton (Millwoods
area); the congregation was organized in 1895.
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Carlstadt
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Locality northwest of Medicine Hat (1909). The original
name was Langevin.
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Alderson (1915)
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HH
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Chancellor
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Hamlet named in 1913 after Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg,
the then chancellor of Germany
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K1
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Düsseldorf
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A locality east of Barrhead. Originally named Paradise.
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Freedom (1919)
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HH
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Eidswold
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A post office (1911) east of Bashaw
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Donalda
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Friedrichsheim
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The Friedrichsheim school district southeast of Leduc was
incorporated in 1899. The first settler was John Frederick, and after the
first school was built the district was named Fredericksheim in his memory.
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Freudental
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The Baptists of the Carbon area came from Freudental in
Southern Russia in 1909 via the U.S.
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Fribourg
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Post office (1911-1932) named after the town of Fribourg,
hometown of the first postmaster, M. Carrel.
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H
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Friedenstal
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A locality near Fairview. A German Catholic colony (the
oldest Catholic parish north of the Peace River) was
founded here by Peter S. Gans and Lewis Flath in 1910. It was first known as
Westphalia, but was renamed St. Louis in 1911. When a post office was
established in 1913, the name Friedenstal was chosen, after Friedensthal,
Gans' original home town in Romania
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Au
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Friedensthal
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Locality north of Leduc (Nisku) settled by Lutherans and
Baptists
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Gaetz Valley
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Post office southeast of Red Deer
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Delburne (1912)
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HH
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Gleichen
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A town east of Calgary (ca. 1881). Named after the German
Count Albert Edward Wilfred Gleichen who was a financial backer of the C.P.R.
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HH
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Gnadenthal
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Locality west of Leduc settled by Lutherans around 1900
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Gratz
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Locality near Elk Point. Named after J. Vogel's, the first
postmaster's, birthplace in Germany
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HH, H
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Griesbach
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Hamlet near Gleichen. Named after Emil Griesbach, the
first postmaster.
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Carseland (1914)
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HH
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Gruenthal
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A school district northwest of Millet incorporated in
1899.
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Heimthal
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Locality in the Whitemud district near Edmonton settled by
Baptists (1892) and Moravians (1896)
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Heinsburg
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Post office southeast of
Elk Point. Opened in 1913 and named after John Heins, the first
postmaster.
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Au
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Heisler
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Village northeast of Stettler. A post office was opened in
1915. Named after Martin Heisler, the landowner from whom the town site was
purchased.
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Au
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Hoffnungsau
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Locality in the region of present-day Spruce Grove and
part of Stony Plain. Settled by Lutherans in 1891 who moved here from Dunmore
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Hussar
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Village southeast of Standard settled by a group of German
noblemen and reservists in 1913; sold by the German-Canadian Farming Company
which had bought lands from the CPR to establish colonization farms in the
area.
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K1
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Josephburg
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A hamlet near Fort Saskatchewan, named for a town in
Galicia. The first settlers came from two villages there, Brigidau and
Josefsberg. From 1888 to 1890 many families left for Canada and took up
homesteads near Medicine Hat, naming their settlement Josephsberg. After some
crop failures, some families moved to the area east of Edmonton. The town was
spelled "Josephburg" from 1893 on
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HH
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Josephsberg
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Locality near Dunmore. Galician settlers arrived here in
1889. After a prolonged drought they moved to Josephburg east of Edmonton.
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Krakow
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Post Office south of Smoky Lake (1904-1943). The area was
settled by immigrants from Cracow, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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H
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Linden
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Village southwest of Three Hills. Named after Linden
school, established in 1904 northeast of the present site of the village. The
origin of the name is uncertain, but it is possible that the village was
named after a tree well-known in Europe by the Holdemanites, a Mennonite sect
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Lutherhort
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Locality near Ellerslie settled by Lutherans from Russia
and Poland in 1895-96
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Nordegg
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Town west of Red Deer. Named after Martin Nordegg, a
native of Silesia who, after arriving in Canada in 1906, established a
railway, a coal mine, and the town site that bears his name. The name of the
railway station was changed from Nordegg to Brazeau in 1920 because it was a
German name, but the name of the post office was never changed
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HH
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Nordegg Crescent
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Calgary’s Nordegg Crescent is named after German coal mine
owner Martin Nordegg
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Hu
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Odessa
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School district near Beiseker. The district was named
after the area of Odessa, Ukraine, from where the German settlers had arrived
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Rehwinkel Close
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An Edmonton street named after Alfred M. Rehwinkel
(1887-1979), the founder of Concordia College in Edmonton. He was born in
Wisconsin of German extraction.
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EHB
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Rosenheim
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A locality near Provost; the post office established in
1909 was named after a town in Bavaria from where the early settlers came. St. Norbert’s Church was erected in 1922.
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HH
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Rosenroll
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Post office and village near Bittern Lake, named after de
Rosenroll, a businessman and member of the Alberta Legislature
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Bittern Lake (1910)
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H
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Rosenthal
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a. Locality near Lethbridge from where settlers moved to
Rosenthal near Stony Plain (1889); b. locality southwest of present-day Stony
Plain settled by Lutherans; c. locality 10 miles east of Leduc (Rolly View)
settled by Lutherans
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Schuler
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Hamlet northeast of Medicine Hat. Named after the first
postmaster in the area, Norman Banks Schuler, who probably came from Russia
in 1910
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K1
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Selz
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Selz school near Bow Island was established in 1912. It
was so named after a district in Russia.
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Stauffer
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Locality southeast of Rocky Mountain House. Named after
Joseph Emmet Stauffer, a Liberal member of the Alberta Legislature from
Didsbury. A post office was opened in 1907.
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Au
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Stettin
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A locality near Sandy Lake in northern Alberta. Named
after a town formerly in Germany which was the home town of the first
postmaster, H. Libke (1913)
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HH
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Stettler
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A town east of Red Deer. Named after Carl Stettler, a
native of Berne, Switzerland. His homestead became the center of a
German-Swiss colony.
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HH
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Stolberg
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A locality west of Rocky Mountain House. Probably named
after Stollberg in Saxony
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HH
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Suder Greens
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An Edmonton neighborhood named after Ontario-born Joseph
Suder (1869-1922) and his German-born wife Kate (b. 1870). When they came to
Edmonton they homesteaded in the Winterburn area.
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EHB
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Sunnyslope
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Post office southwest of Three Hills. Established in 1903
by Peter Giesbrecht, the first postmaster.
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H
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Swastika
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Swastika was established in 1911 as a CPR station. Also a
new subdivision in Medicine Hat (1912). "The ‘lucky’ spot of the town
that was born lucky."
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Gayford (during WW II)
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K1
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Vienna Drive
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Calgary's Vienna Drive is likely named after the capital
of Austria
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Hu
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Vilna
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Town ca. 36 km east of Smoky Lake. Settled by immigrants
from Vilna, Galicia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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H
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Volmer
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Locality ca. 25 km northwest of St. Albert. Named after a
resident from whom the Canadian Northern
Railway purchased some land for a railway siding. In 1904, Joseph and
Franzeska Vollmer [sic] came from a small village in Germany, Brenken to join
other members of their community who had emigrated to St. Albert earlier.
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H
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Wagner
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Station southeast of Lesser Slave Lake. Named after the
German engineer in 1914 who constructed this section of the
Edmonton-Dunvegan-British Columbia railway line
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Ma
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Waldheim
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Locality and school district near Usona; a Lutheran church
was erected in 1908
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Wiesenthal
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School district near Leduc by German Baptists (1897) and
Pentecostals (1919)
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Wiesville
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Post office west of Lacombe. Named after W. Wiese, the
first postmaster
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Aspen Beach (1916)
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HH, H
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Wittenburg
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A post office operated from 1907-1917
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Leedale (1917)
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HH
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Topographical name
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Location
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Source
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Christian Peak
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NW of Banff. The name for this 3,390 m peak on Mount Lyell
is named after Christian Kaufmann. The peaks of Mt. Lyell were named for the
five prominent mountaineering guides originally brought out by the CPR from
Switzerland, who later became residents of Canada. The five were Edward, Ernest
and Walter Feuz, Rudolph Aemmer and Christian Kaufmann.
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K2
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Gaetz Creek and Lakes
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Northeast of Red Deer. The creek and lakes were named
after the Rev. Leonard Gaetz
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HH
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George Creek
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George Creek flows into Blackstone Creek NW of Nordegg.
Commemorates George Bernstein (1857-1924), a German book and newspaper
publisher. He was president of the German Development Company on Blackstone
River.
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K2
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Kaufmann Peaks
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Northwest of Banff. Named after Christian Kaufmann who was
a guide for a climber, Sir J. Outram. Outram thought the peaks should be
named after Kaufmann.
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K2
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Keppler Creek
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Creek northwest of Manning. Named after Henry Keppler
(1898-1950) who lived and trapped in the area from 1913 to 1938.
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Au
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Kohler Coulee
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This coulee near Claresholm was named after Hans Kohler
who came to the area in 1903 where he ranched until 1912 when he returned to
his native Switzerland to marry. The Kohler Couleee School District was also
named after him; it was established in 1909.
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K2
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Lake Geneva
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Post office (1910 to 1937) located northwest of Vermilion.
Named after the lake in Switzerland.
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H
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Lucerne Peak
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Southeast of Pincher Creek. Overlooks the Lucerne Railway
Station which was named after Lucerne Lake and Canton in Switzerland.
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K2
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Mount Habel
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Mountain northwest of Banff. Commemorates German-born
explorer Jean Habel (ca. 1840-1902) who in 1897 made the first visit to the
region along the north fork of the Wapta River; he was also the first to
cross the Yoho Pass.
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K2
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Mount Perren
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Northwest of Banff. Walter Perren came to Canada from
Switzerland in 1950. He was a climbing guide and developed search and rescue
training techniques still used by the
wardens.
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K2
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Mount Sarbach
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Northwest of Banff. Named after Peter Sarbach, the first
Swiss guide in Canada. He made the first ascent of this mountain in 1897.
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K2
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Mount Weiss
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Southeast of Jasper. J. A. (Joe) Weiss came to Canada from
Switzerland in 1921. He spent some 45 years in Jasper exploring, acting as a
guide, and photographing. He made several first ascents of the mountains in
the area.
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K2
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Nasswald Peak
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This 2,995 m peak of Mount Assiniboine was named in 1913
after Nasswald, Austria. This was the birthplace of Conrad Kain, a member of
the survey party which climbed the peak that year.
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K2
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Nordegg River
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Flows into the Brazeau River. Named after Martin Nordegg.
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H
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Palu Mountain
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Northwest of Jasper. This 2,929 m mountain was named in
1923 after a mountain in Switzerland which is similar in shape.
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K2
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Pangman Peak
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Northwest of Banff. After Peter Pangman (1774?-1819) who
was an early fur trader of German descent from New England. In 1790 Pangman
carved his name on a pine tree, 5 km upstream of what was then Rocky Mountain
House.
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K2
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Rudolph Peak
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Northwest of Banff. This peak of Mount Lyell was named
after Rudolph Aemmer, one of the CPR Swiss guides
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