TRAVERS

NAME: Travers COUNTY: N/A ROADS: 4WD GRID: 2 CLIMATE: Mild summer,cold winter BEST TIME TO VISIT: Summer

COMMENTS: SW Corner of Alberta REMAINS: Many buildings.

In 1914, the Canadian and Pacific Railroad began to lay track to tap the interior of the triangle formed by the three major southern Alberta centers, Calgary, Lethbridge, and Medicine Hat. Along this branch line through the Dry Country are the remnants of the once prosperous town of Travers. The town was a busy place with a bank, a barbershop, two hardware stores, a butcher shop, three garages, a hotel, two livery stables, three restaurants, and a real estate firm. It had most everything needed to make it a permanent town. Then the town was hit by a series of droughts during the early 1920s. By 1927, many of its businesses had folded and by 1967 its population, once over 300, had vanished. Today, Travers is a ghost towner’s delight. H.B. Chenoweth

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