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I just realized how similar the 'handwritten' fonts of both companies are to each other, esp. when rendered in white letters on red background.
Ottawa, Ontario.
google maps just added a bunch of the world. here's where I lived in China.
Other commented pics of zz are at www.fuseki.net/china/zhuzhou.html
Michael Jones, Chief Technologist for Google Earth, Google Maps & Google Local Search addresses the crowd at Search Marketing Expo in Denver, 2007.
This is an original 1910 town map taken from a poster from the Stirling history book; Stirling It's Story & People and a screen shot from Google maps. I merged the two together. This is what could have been.
Originally "New Stirling" the community was renamed Maybutt after William Fisher's wife. He was the original builder of the Prairie Queen Hotel and real estate agent that owned and planed out Maybutt.
The poster states "watch us grow to 5,000 by 1913", well Maybutt grew to 250 at it's peak in the 1910s but never grew over the 300 it needed to sustain Village status. The town was known as the "Junction Town" because it was located between the Canadian Pacific Railway from Lethbridge - Great Falls and the Saint Mary's line west to Cardston and the Stirling - Weyburn line to the east.
Canadian National Railway even had intentions to place a line through from Fort Macleod to Helena, Montana. Plans never got past the planing stage. This would have been big for a little prairie town. A town was lucky enough to have two let alone three lines running through it.
The old Prairie Queen Hotel stood on the corner of First Avenue & Front Street. It's lavish bar room which was never used as one served as a school room while plans were being drawn up for a school to be built. Plans never went through as the population of Stirling and Maybutt started to dwindling. Kids from Maybutt were bused to Stirling.
The old United church, now converted into a private residence in McNally was moved away after it's closure. Many other buildings were moved and used elsewhere as well.
The Maybutt Post Office closed it's doors in 1953 leaving just the elevators in operation. By 1973 the old 1910 Taylor Milling elevator was demolished. In 1999 the Alberta Wheat Pool followed it. The 1922 Ellison then Parish & Heimbecker was sold to a farmer in 1975 and was privately used until it was bought by Rocky Mountain Grain Products. It has since been heavily modified with tin siding and the removal of the cupola.
There still are signs of Maybutt's existence. Parts of the old hotel foundation still show through grown over grass. Along Second Street between York Ave & Front Ave are two original brick homes with bricks baked in Stirling. The foundation of the old CPR water tower can still be seen along the tracks next to the elevator. As well, the Alberta Wheat Pool elevator agent's house still stands occupied at the corner of York Ave & Lorne Ave.
Maybutt has seen drastic changes throughout it's short lived life but still maintains it's original blueprint.
Due to Maybutt's proximity to Lethbridge, land in the area is very sought after. Stirling is now a bedroom community and Maybutt has even seen a little growth itself with many new acreages slowly claiming what once was a community.