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Stirling, Alberta
Village in Alberta, Canada
Stirling is a village in southern Alberta, Canada that is surrounded by the County of Warner No.
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The village is located on Highway 4, approximately 31 km (19 mi) southeast of Lethbridge and 72 km (45 mi) northwest of the Canada–US border.
The Village of Stirling is also referred to as Stirling Agricultural Village due to its designation as a National Historic Site of Canada.[7]
History
As the development of Railway took place throughout the 1880s in Southern Alberta, at the time Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) constructed a railroad from the city of Calgary to Fort Macleod.
The Alberta Railway and Coal Company (ARCC) built a narrow gauge railway from Lethbridge to Medicine Hat in order to supply coal to the CPR.[8]
In 1899, the ARCC built another narrow gauge railway from Lethbridge, Alberta to Great Falls, Montana through the Coutts-Sweetgrass border crossing, closely following t