Alberta
Brick downtown named for Father Lacombe
Lacombe takes its name from Oblate missionary Albert Lacombe, remembered for mediating between Cree and Blackfoot communities and helping the Canadian Pacific Railway negotiate passage through Blackfoot territory. Retired Mountie Ed Barnett opened a stopping house on the Calgary and Edmonton Trail in the early 1880s; locals first called the spot Barnett's Siding.
The railway reached the area in 1891, village status followed in 1896, and CPR president William Van Horne pushed the Father Lacombe name into official use. A federal experimental farm opened in 1907, and the downtown still shows off one of Alberta's better-preserved stretches of early commercial brick.
Drawn from Wikipedia, Michener House Museum and Archives.
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Livability
The Globe and Mail
2023 data partnership with Environics Analytics ranking 439 Canadian communities on ten livability categories.
Single edition · 2023
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Livability
MoneySense
Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
5 editions · 2013–2018
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Lacombe is a city in central Alberta, Canada.
It is located approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) north of Red Deer, the nearest major city, and 125 kilometres (78 mi) south of Edmonton, the nearest metropolitan area.
The city is set in the rolling parkland of central Alberta, between the Rocky Mountains foothills to the west and the flatter Alberta prairie to the east.
Lacombe's downtown core is noted for one of Alberta's better-preserved concentrations of early 20th-century commercial brick buildings.
The birthplace of former Governor General Roland Michener is preserved as a museum in Lacombe.
