Janet, Alberta

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Janet is a designated place (an unincorporated hamlet) in southern Alberta, in the Municipal District of Rocky View.

Janet is located 2 miles east of the City of Calgary's eastern limit at 84th Street and is 2 miles south of Highway 1A (approximately 20 kilometers or 12.4 miles east of the Calgary's city center). Janet is primarily an indsutrial area and is home to some of the most important and successful transportation and logistics companies in Western Canada.

When the community was first named, Janet was a siding and flag station built by the Canadian National Railway when the railroad went through. A station was erected in 1912, and it is believed that the Harry Whittaker family was one of the first settlers here. Whittaker built a house about 0.2 km from the crossing. The Columbia Grain Co. built an elevator here in 1928 and rented it to Parrish & Heimbecker. It carried the Columbia name for many years thereafter. The precise name of Janet is unknown.

Janet is one of several rural communities that is expected to be annexed by the City of Calgary as it expands its boundaries to the east. However as of the summer of 2006, current annexation plans show the city's proposed new boundaries stop just to the north of Janet, although the hamlet is still within a proposed joint planning area.[1]

[edit] References

Karamitsanis, Aphrodite (1992). Place Names of Alberta – Volume II, Southern Alberta, University of Calgary Press, Calgary, Alberta.

Read, Tracey (1983). Acres and Empires – A History of the Municipal District of Rocky View, Calgary, Alberta.

[edit] External links

• Municipal District of Rocky View's official website
• Rocky View Community Profile on Alberta First
• Calgary-Edmonton Corridor in Alberta