Siteviews Issue 004
 
Feature Project: The City of Red Deer

Owner: City of Red Deer

The City of Red Deer was named the Cultural Capital of Canada
for 2003-2004 by Heritage Canada
 
Reverend Dr. Leonard Gaetz

The City of Red Deer was named after the river that ran through it. The Red Deer River was important to the First Peoples of Central Alberta.

The Red Deer region is a multi-cultural community - proud of its diverse heritage and cultural lifestyles. Named Cultural Capital of Canada by Canadian Heritage in 2003, Red Deer is home to a variety of entertainment and cultural venues, and Central Alberta's largest shopping destinations.

The region is positioned between Alberta's two largest cities, Calgary and Edmonton. Red Deer is located in the Parkland, a region of rolling hills focused on oil, grain and cattle production.
   
 
 
 
Reverend Dr. Leonard Gaetz
As a founding father of the City, Reverend Dr. Leonard Gaetz is memorialized in the name of Red Deer's major thoroughfare: Gaetz Avenue. Here his statue sits on a Maglin MLB300BM Bench.

Reverend Dr. Leonard Gaetz (1841-1907) was a native of Nova Scotia. He moved his family to the Red Deer Valley on the west half of the river due to poor health. Gaetz acted as the local land agent for the Saskatchewan Colonization Company and purchased parts of three other sections from his employers. By 1890, the Gaetz family owned vast holdings along the south bank of the Red Deer River around the mouth of the Waskasoo Creek. He gave a half-share to the Calgary and Edmonton Railway in some 1240 acres of his own land to develop as a town site. The railway agreed; and in 1891 the first train from Calgary to Edmonton passed through Red Deer.
 
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