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Mormon colonies in Canada
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Mormon_colonies_in_Canada
GPTKB entity
Statements (55)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:settlement
gptkbp:CardstonAlbertaTempleDedicatedIn
1923
gptkbp:CardstonAlbertaTempleSignificance
first LDS temple built outside the United States
gptkbp:CardstonFoundedBy
gptkb:Charles_Ora_Card
gptkbp:CardstonFoundedIn
1887
gptkbp:CardstonPopulation2021
3,585
gptkbp:culturalSignificance
gptkb:LDS_Church
gptkbp:establishedIn
1887
gptkbp:firstColonyFounded
gptkb:Cardston
gptkbp:foundedBy
Mormon pioneers
members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
gptkbp:heritageDesignation
Stirling Agricultural Village National Historic Site
gptkbp:historicalSignificance
helped develop southern Alberta
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Mormon colonies in Canada
gptkbp:language
English
gptkbp:locatedIn
gptkb:Alberta
gptkb:Canada
gptkbp:MagrathFoundedIn
1899
gptkbp:MagrathPopulation2021
2,374
gptkbp:mainEconomicActivity
livestock ranching
irrigation agriculture
sugar beet farming
gptkbp:notableBuilding
gptkb:Cardston_Alberta_Temple
gptkbp:notableEvent
arrival of Mormon pioneers in 1887
dedication of Cardston Alberta Temple in 1923
gptkbp:notableFor
gptkb:Leavitt
gptkb:Raymond
gptkb:Taylorville
gptkb:Cardston
gptkb:Glenwood
gptkb:Kimball
gptkb:Stirling
gptkb:Magrath
Welling
Hill Spring
Woolford
Beazer
Spring Coulee
gptkbp:notablePerson
gptkb:Charles_Ora_Card
gptkb:John_W._Taylor
gptkb:Thomas_E._Ricks
gptkb:Edward_J._Wood
gptkb:Jesse_Knight
gptkbp:population
predominantly Mormon in early years
gptkbp:purpose
refuge from anti-polygamy laws in the United States
gptkbp:RaymondFoundedIn
1901
gptkbp:RaymondPopulation2021
4,199
gptkbp:relatedTo
gptkb:Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints
gptkb:Mormon_colonies_in_Mexico
gptkb:Mormon_Trail
gptkbp:StirlingFoundedIn
1899
gptkbp:StirlingPopulation2021
1,164
gptkbp:StirlingSignificance
best-preserved example of Mormon agricultural village in Canada
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Mormon_colonies_in_Mexico
gptkbp:bfsLayer
7