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The future of Wainwright may be told in few but certain words—“Wainwright will be the best town between Edmonton and Saskatoon, in a few years no one will recognize the Wainright of today.” So spoke President Hays of the Grand Trunk Pacific when he was in Wainwright last.
There are towns in the west that have grown up in a night, there are also towns in the west that have had steady and reasonable advancement, while their growth have not been so rapid. Wainwright belongs in both or either of these classes.
Less than twenty-seven months ago, the present site of the town was uninhabited save for two or three valiant homesteaders, who were here before the railroad was built. Today, our town can boast of a population of more than a thousand true and loyal citizens. Since the first tote team drove into Wainwright, the growth has been nothing less than marvelous. Settlers of a superior and wealthy calss have swarmed into the district; newcomers of energy and ambition have located in the town.
After the coming of the railroad, the district advanced by leaps and bounds, each and every inhabitant worked in harmony and moulded the first beginning of future prosperity. From the start there was no doubt in the minds of the newcomer, he used his eyesight and proper judgement and the result ws that here in the unknown land of the past, a country of future hope and reward was unearthed. The settler saw the heavy, rich soil of the surrounding district, the superior seasons of the year and nothing more was needed—here wsa his future home and place of successful livelihood.
And now after the first ice has been broken by the pioneers, the advantages are being seen throughout the length and breadth of the great Dominion, the call of the ocuntry is being heard in every corner of the land, with the result that settlers are rushing to our district, eager to enjoy the advantages that before they knew nothing of. The campaign of advertising to be started by the real estate companies of the west are surely indicative of foreign views of our town and country. Soon, the value of property will increase, farm lands will increase in price, and the gush of prosperity will shine throughout our town and district. More than ever Wainwright will be the distributing point for sections of rich grain-growing country. Town property will double in value and former speculation will prove valuable investment.
Wainwright will be the golden spot of Northern Alberta and what with the magnificent grian-growing, mixed farming and ranching district, the home of the largest herd of buffalo in the world and the present wealth of the town and district, it will well be worthy of the name that so many have called it, “A Land of New Found Hope.”