Lions Anniversary Sundial - Claresholm, AB
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N 50° 01.662 W 113° 34.951
12U E 315035 N 5544906
Before entering the Claresholm & District Museum & Visitor Information Centre one may check the accuracy of their watch or other timekeeping device against this sundial.
Waymark Code: WMPF0K
Location: Alberta, Canada
Date Posted: 08/20/2015
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member NW_history_buff
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Mounted on the top of a cubical brick plinth, this is a very nice, artistic bronze sundial with a stylized bronze gnomon. The face tells the viewer not only that they are viewing Mountain Standard Time, but that the sundial was a gift to the citizens of Claresholm by the Claresholm Lions Club, given to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Province of Alberta. This would mean that the sundial was presented in 1980. To be chronologically correct it would have to have been unveiled on September 1st of that year.

Sundial and plinth are directly in front of the old CPR railway station, now home to the Museum and Visitor Centre.
Subject: State/Province

Commemoration: 75th Anniversary

Date of Founding: September 1, 1905

Date of Commemoration: 1980

Address:
Claresholm & District Museum & Visitor Information Centre 5126 – 1st Street West Claresholm, AB T0L 0T0

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Detail Photograph:

Yes


Web site if available: Not listed
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