Town on the Move

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In 1905, the Canadian Northern Railway started constructing a 19-mile line from Edmonton to Stony Plain. Unfortunately, it missed the original Stony Plain settlement. The Town Fathers decided to move the community closer to the railway and in the winter of 1905/06, using 20 teams of horses, they rolled the buildings over the frozen ground using horses and logs to the present location of Stony Plain.