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2 unusual facts about Drumheller-Stettler


Drumheller-Stettler

By-elections for both electoral districts were called held on June 12, 2007.

The current representative in the district is Wildrose Party member Rick Strankman, who was first elected in a provincial election on April 23, 2012.


Baseball in Canada

In 1957, former Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Glen Gorbous, a native of Drumheller, Alberta set the current world record for longest throw of a baseball at 445 feet, 10 inches (135.89m) in Omaha, Nebraska.

Carl Stettler

After traveling and working across the U.S., he arrived in Alberta in 1903 and homesteaded two and a half miles east of the present town of Stettler.

CJDV

CKDQ, a radio station (910 AM) licensed to Drumheller, Alberta, Canada, which held the call sign CJDV from 1958 to 1981

David Schumacher

David is the son of Stanley and Virginia Schumacher and was Born in Ottawa, Ontario Canada and later moved to Drumheller, Alberta where he completed high school after attending St. John's-Ravenscourt School in Winnipeg, Manitoba for his eighth grade.

Drumheller

Drumheller has been the filming location for more than 50 commercials, television and cinematic productions including Running Brave, MythQuest, Unforgiven, ABC's miniseries Dreamkeeper and TNT's miniseries Into the West.

Gail Sidonie Sobat

Born in Calgary, Alberta, Sobat spent her early years in Southern Alberta, living in Drumheller, then Shouldice, and on the Blackfoot Indian Reservation, now Siksika Nation, near the hamlet of Gleichen.

John de Ruiter

John de Ruiter was born on November 11, 1959, one of two boys and two girls raised by Dutch immigrant parents in the town of Stettler in Alberta, Canada.

Murray MacPherson

MacPherson's coaching career including the Winnipeg Monarchs, Winnipeg Clubs, Portage Terriers, Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds, Jersey Aces/Hampton Aces, Richmond Rifles, New Westminster Bruins, Drumheller Miners, Burnaby Bluehawks and the Langley Eagles.

Robert Raymond Cook

Robert Cook, Raymond Cook's son by his first wife, had been arrested in Stettler a day earlier, and charged with obtaining goods under false pretenses after he had traded the family's 1958 Chevrolet station wagon for a '59 Impala convertible.

Stettler

Stettler County No. 6, Alberta, a municipal district in central Alberta around the town

Susan Sloan

Susan Estelle Sloan Smith (born April 5, 1958, in Stettler, Alberta) is a former international freestyle swimmer from Canada who won a bronze medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Tyler Drumheller

According to Drumheller, the CIA, with the help of a friendly intelligence service, recruited Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri in Europe during the late summer of 2002.


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