Hotels in Pincher Creek, Pincher City and Lundbreck have retained a higher historical profile than those located in the C.P.R.’s eighth siding. This article hopes to re-capture some of the former glory associated with Cowley’s hotel heritage.

Most early settlers were truly pleased to have frontier commercial outlets such as the Union Bank of Canada's branch in Cowley.

James Schofield is best remembered for his many business contributions in Pincher Creek itself, but he was also active in Cowley's merchant scene.

This article on the sale of the Lundbreck Trading Company appeared in the Thursday, March 22nd, 1973 issue of our weekly newspaper, The Pincher Creek Echo.

The eye-catching Windsor Hotel was a much-patronized Lundbreck landmark for well over half a century.

Prairie Canadian towns and settlements abound with frontier tales of their early businesses. Laidlaw’s Grocery Store, located north of the railway tracks in the midst of Pincher City, now known as Pincher Station, was one such example.

For close to a quarter of a century, the Alexandra Hotel in Pincher City was a local landmark representing economic connections with the settlement’s ranching and railway industries, as with the social and political chronologies from both Pincher City and Creek. Little has been previously published on this busy place of commerce.

One of the intriguing yet little known aspects of Lundbreck’s political heritage was its attempts to incorporate as a Village.

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In this article, we take a look back at the contributions of a few of the pioneers from the Lundbreck area.

Also slated during the pioneer era as the Eighth Siding, the settlement of Cowley featured a collage of thriving businesses.

This article provides a look at a few of those pioneer businesses that operated during Beaver Mines’ early history.