page_title: Charles Ora Card
section_title: Canada
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Ora Card / Canada
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: picturesquecards00card (find matches) Title: Picturesque Cardston and environments&#160;: a story of colonization and progress in southern Alberta Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Subjects: Mormons Publisher: Cardston, N.W.T.&#160;: N.W. MacLeod Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ' Text Appearing After Image: o ^3 ii picturesqueCardston and Environments A STORY OFCOLONIZATION and PROGRESS; IN SOUTHERN ALBERTA. CARDSTON, N.W.T. N. W. MACLEOD1900 Entered According to Act of Parliament of Canada, in the yearNineteen Hundred, by N. W. Macleod, in the Office of theMinister of Agriculture. HAROLD B. LEE LIBRARY 8RIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY PROVO, UTAH INTRODUCTION. Southern Alberta has for many years been noted as one ofthe finest stock countries in the world. It is now conceded alsoto be a magnificent region for the establishment of homes. Allwho have located here have succeeded in temporal afiairs; theyhave tilled the soil, reaped harvests in accordance with thatwhich they have sown; have made themselves comfortablehomes, built villages and hamlets and become an importantfacfor in the development of the great North-West. The extensive irrigation system recently inaugurated by theCanadian North-West Irrigation Company in Southern Alberta—a system that extends from a point on the St. Marys river,picturesquecards00card Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Charles Ora Card was the founder of Cardston, Alberta, the first Mormon settlement in Canada. He has been referred to as "Canada's Brigham Young".
context_section_description: The settlers created a town with a grid system and began irrigation projects. Mormon immigrants were praised by a Canadian government inspector for their irrigation efforts, but polygamy was outlawed in Canada soon after the settlement was created. In 1888, a request from John Taylor, Francis Lyman, and Charles Card to practice polygamy was denied by Canadian Prime Minister John MacDonald. Regardless, the population of Mormon immigrants in Cardston and its surrounding areas continued to flourish. In 1889 Card returned to Utah to give an account of Cardston's progress to church leaders. President Wilford Woodruff instructed him to return to Canada and expand the settlement, with a goal to make Cardston "permanent and self-sustaining." He subsequently purchased the surrounding areas and established settlements at Mountain View, Kimball, Beazer, and Leavitt in Alberta. A railroad connected the colonies to the outside world, and encouraged more immigration; installation of telephones in the 1890s further developed Cardston. Upon its creation in 1895, Card became the first president of the Alberta Stake of the LDS Church. It was the first established outside of the United States. Irrigation projects were successful, and businesses and thousands of LDS settlers came to Cardston. Card continued to travel frequently between Alberta and Salt Lake City to give reports and receive direction from church leaders. The church directly participated in the Alberta Railway and Irrigation Company's efforts to irrigate the region. This "first large-scale corporate irrigation project" benefited from the involvement of the Mormon settlers under Card's direction. Card selected two sites for new settlements along the irrigation system: Magrath and Stirling. In 1902, he declared the Canadian colonies self-sufficient.
caption: Settlers of Cardston, Alberta, Canada (c. 1900)
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