Claresholm Water tower
This town, 40 km north of Fort MacLeod (and the Crownest Highway 3) and 80 km to the northwest of Lethbridge (and about 130 km southeast of Calgary, via Highway 2), was named by Canadian Pacific Railway superintendent John Niblock who named it for his home in Lethbridge, which he called “Clare’s Home”. The town was incorporated on August 31, 1905 on the last day of the Northwest Territorial administration in Regina, which dissolved that day so that Saskatchewan and Alberta could become provinces in Confederation.
Claresholm has 4,000 residents, and the town is recognized by the water tower and the grain elevators adjacent the #3 highway that runs through town. The town serves the needs of the farms and farmers that are near it in southern Alberta.
