The annual arrival of the New Year has had a strong tradition within our community’s frontier history, not only as one of recollection of the outgoing year but also of renewed optimism for the future.

The festive season brings an opportunity to reflect back upon some of those traditional Christmas activities hosted by our town and rural schools in the late 1920s.

Holiday communications were a welcome treat to isolated pioneers.

Rural Schools celebrated varying Christmas traditions

People of the Doukhobor Faith are a religious minority in Western Canada and have significant historic routes in southwestern Alberta.

Cowley’s St. Aidan’s Church, remains active in its community, enjoying a religious heritage of more than a century of service.

St. Chad’s Church of England served the Lundbreck area for an impressive sixty-four years from, 1909 to 1973.

Since its inception Foothills United Church has had a significant influence on the Cowley community and surrounding area, providing friendship, solace and spiritual learning.

During Pincher Creek’s pioneer history, the annual arrival of the New Year was welcomed by the locals with an enthusiastic social gathering.

The physical origins of the Roman Catholic faith in the Pincher Creek area can be traced back to the Father Lacombe Hermitage