Time for the Past is a new series from Carole Hudson, a family historian and President of the Beaumont & District Heritage Society, sharing interesting stories from Beaumont’s history. Article content

Have you ever wondered what Beaumont looked like before all the houses and businesses we have now? I did. At a council meeting in December 2005, I gave them a copy of a provincially approved project celebrating Alberta’s centennial. It was a compilation of the 1901, 1906 and 1911 census research I had done for the Beaumont area. The PDF version of this collection is on the Beaumont Heritage Society Website. Article content

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By extracting the information preserved in these old documents, I learned so much. I found out where the early settlers came from,

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