Sexsmith, Alberta, Canada
Posted by: wildwoodke
N 55° 20.960 W 118° 47.077
11U E 386841 N 6135115
The town office is located on Main Street (100th Street) in Sexsmith, Alberta.
Waymark Code: WME7ZW
Location: Alberta, Canada
Date Posted: 04/16/2012
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A small store front office is found on 100th Street that handles the office related business for the town of Sexsmith.
Across the street Millennium Park, the Visitor Information Centre and the town bandstand.
If you are thinking where did they get that name?? The town's history is described on their website:
"The name "Sexsmith" has intrigued all who heard it since Sexsmith came into being in 1916. Sexsmith was actually the second name chosen for our townsite. Originally named, "Bennville" after early 1911 settler J.B. "Benny" Foster, upon whose homestead the townsite was established. The name changed when it was discovered that there was already a town bearing that name. Our town became Sexsmith in honour of David Sexsmith, a trapper and trader who first came into the area in 1898 and set up a stopping place just north of the present town in 1912. Sexsmith reestablished his store and post-office at the present town-site in 1916, the same year the railroad reached here."
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