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Editor's Note: On February 25, 1907, the Historical Society of Alberta was formed by an Act of the Alberta legislature. At that time, the province was only two years old and many of its services and amenities were just being established. A land rush by homesteaders was underway and urban real estate was beginning to rear its brazen head. At the beginning of 1907, Edmonton had no street cars, Calgary had no door-to-door mail service, Lethbridge as a city was just one year old, and Red Deer boasted a population of two thousand.
To provide some glimpses of Alberta in 1907, we have drawn upon the news and editorial articles that appeared in The Saturday News, a ...