Kathyrn, Alberta

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

Kathyrn is located approximately 38 kilometers or 23.6 miles northeast of the City of Calgary, on Highway 566. The Canadian National Railway line runs northeast through Kathyrn to Three Hills and Drumheller.

Neil McKay, a local farmer and large landowner, named this hamlet after his daughter. He had offered some of his land to the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company in 1911 for a townsite, on the provision that he be permitted to give it a name. When the station was finally built in 1913, the painter who was in charge of the sign misspelled Kathryn and the settlement became known as Kathyrn. The post office opened January 1, 1919.

[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