New Norway church

 Highland Park Church & Cemetary is located just South & West of New Norway Alberta Canada.
In 1898 Pioneers in this area built
A Store, Post Office, Creamery & 
Boarding House all of which operated from 1900 to 1910.
A School was also built and was operating from 1901 to 1949.
The Church was built in 1905 and closed in 1964. It is still standing but is in a poor state of repair and has been boarded up.Babys grave for A distance u can see the the cross next to the rock . n 1892, travelling first on the newly constructed Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) line, the Ole M. Olstad family disembarked in Wetaskiwin and made their way to the Duhamel settlement, which had been established for some years. The family quickly filed homesteads a few miles south for themselves and several relatives and friends in the United States. In addition they purchased available CPR land for $3.00 per acre ($7.41/ha).
For a time the area was known as the "Olstead District". However, as other Norwegian families (along with those of other nationalities) settled in the area, the name changed to New Norway around 1895. By 1903 the fledgling community had a school, general store, and a blacksmith shop to its credit.
In the fall of 1909, in anticipation of the new Grand Trunk Pacific rail line being built nearby, the community was moved (by the use of skids and seven oxen) to its present location NW-11-45-21-W4 (see Dominion Land Survey). According to the Camrose Canadian, the townsite of New Norway was put on sale October 14, 1909, with 14 businesses filing intent to establish within the first month. Commercial lots sold from $100 to $250, and residential lots were priced from $50 to $150.
New Norway incorporated as a village on May 6, 1910,[2] and its first council was elected on May 9, 1910 with Norman M. Smith, James F. Willows and Evan O. Olstad serving.
Over a century later, the Village of New Norway was dissolved to hamlet status under the jurisdiction of Camrose County effective November 1, 2012. It was adventure  in the church  the pigeons  diving   st u talking back to u and.  Than trying to get in   was fun. Got stuck half way  thank  heavens for my boyfriend helping me.   Short legs for are always fun to climb over  lol. The adventure the memories  plan on going back for in the summer  ❤  


NEW NORWAY church  SO   PEACEFUL



                       Baby grave. In the distance

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