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Alderson, Alberta : ウィキペディア英語版 | Alderson, Alberta Alderson is a locality in Alberta, Canada within Cypress County. Now a ghost town, it previously held village status until January 31, 1936, and was known as the Village of Carlstadt from 1911 to 1916. The name was changed during the First World War when many other settlements in Canada and Australia changed German place names.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Ghost Towns of Alberta: Alderson )〕 Alderson is located approximately northwest of Suffield along the Canadian Pacific Railway main line. The City of Brooks is approximately to the northwest and the City of Medicine Hat is approximately to the southeast. It has an elevation of . == History == "When settlers came to southeast Alberta during the great land rush of the early years of the 20th century, the village of Carlstadt was born. There was abundant hope of prosperity, and the new settlement, formerly a train whistle stop named Langevin, came to be known as the “Star of the Prairies.” But Carlstadt, later to be known as Alderson, was to become the centre of one of Canada’s worst agriculture disasters; victim of just about every imaginable calamity, including drought, fires, flies, grasshoppers and even marauding rabbits."〔
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