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Mundare is a fairly typical prairie community in that its’ founding was stimulated by the coming of the railway. A settlement of English farmers had been started in the early 1890s on the northeast shore of Beaverhill Lake (some eight miles from the future village), where one of the Scottish homesteaders, J. D. McAllister, opened a blacksmith shop, post office and general store on the pioneer trail from Edmonton. However, as the nineteenth century drew to close the “Beaver Lake” district, as it was then commonly known, rapidly filled with an influx of farmers from Eastern Europe, most of them from Ukrainian lands within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. When a siding was created in 1905 at the future site of Mundare on the new Canadian Northern Railway line between Edmonton and Winnipeg, it soon became a focal point for a village that is thought to have acquired its name from an early stationmaster, W. Mundare. The first merchant to seize on the opportunity was J. D. McAllister, who constructed a general store at the site, followed by a livery barn, lumberyard, and implement shop – while continuing to farm with the help of hired hands! Another pioneer merchant was J. S. McCallum, who by 1906 was operating a store, subsequently expanding into cattle buying, real estate, insurance, and a farm implements dealership.
See website for continued town description!
LINK: https://www.mundare.ca/community/history-of-mundare
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