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10 Great Falls Tribune Tuesday, September 18, 1951 American Is Successful In Founding Alberta Town 410 Central ticed two hamlets about 10 miles EDMONTON One of Alberta's newest frontier towns Is Manning. 400 miles northwest of here. It was apart on either side of the farm-filled Notikewin valley and it struck him that both were too far from the founded by an, American and named river bisecting for Alberta's premier, E. C. Manning.

Manning is on the Mackenzie high To Craig a horseshoe bend in the river seemed a much better town' way, only road linking Alberta with site. At war's end he headed north the northwest territories. Since 34 year-old Patrick Larry Craig, orig from the United States with an $8,000 stake. He bought out an English homesteader's 160 acres for inally from Illinois, started the town $3,000 and then spread the word among farmers in the area that he planned to build a hotel there, They held a local option poll and after the end of World war 2, Manning has been growing steadily. Today is boasts a population of more than 600 and recently a government survey team was working in the area lining up homesteads for 250 more families who next summer will join Pat Craig on the frontier.

Pat first spotted the site in 1943 when he was traveling north on a tractor train. At that time he was VQted overwhelmingly for a beer license for Craig's hotel. Other businessmen bought lots and set up a bank, drug store, bakery, postoffice. a barber shop and a pool halL Today Craig's enlarged Aurora hotel is valued at $150,000 and reaps a civilian mechanic on Canada-U. a net profit of $36,000 a year.

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