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Early in 2004, Len Clark and Associates were engaged
by the City of St. Albert to develop a Master Plan to
provide a direction for the future development of St.
Albert Heritage Sites for the next twenty years. This Master Plan was approved by St. Albert City Council in 2005.
Following recommendations in the Master Plan the Arts and Heritage Foundation built a replica of the St. Albert train station, at the grain elevator site. The original station was built in 1909, on Mission Avenue,
north of the tracks and west of Meadowview Drive.
The train station was completed in late 2005 and designed as it would have appeared in the 1920s, after it was extended to increase the baggage handling area. The replica train station was designed by the architects O'Neill O'Neill
Procinsky and built by Johnston Builders of St. Albert. The train station acts as the visitor centre for the grain elevator park.
The Rotary Club of St. Albert donated $100,000 to the
cost of building the replica as part of the Rotary International
Centennial celebrations and the City of St. Albert has
contributed $160,000 from the Alberta Centennial Per
Capita Municipal Grant program. The Rotary Train Station and Visitor Centre was officially named and opened to the public in May 2006. |