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Sheerness defining one town's rural


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Testimonials 100 | 2013 REPORT ON SOUTHEAST ALBERTA By TIM KALINOWSKI D


riving along the bald prairie past dormant pastures and harvested fields beneath a thin layer of winter


snow, the miles slip by as the sense of loneliness and isolation grows the further along Highway 36 north of Brooks you go. Out in the Special Areas where the communities and farm houses are few and far between, you could easily come to think that you have arrived in the middle of nowhere: That is, until you see an industrial vision rising up from the


broad plain surrounded by vast reservoirs of water; and in the near distance a prosperous little town.


Hanna enjoys a standard of life that is the envy of many smaller communities in southern Alberta. Hanna was built to be a divisional point of the Great Northern Railway in 1912. The town is named after D.B. Hanna, who was Great Northern Railway’s president at the time. So Hanna was originally founded as a company town, and in some ways with the establishment of the ATCO Sheerness Generating Station in 1986 the community has returned to its roots. Certainly there is a wealth of agriculture and a thriving oil and gas sector in the area, but what really drives the economy


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