Visit Heritage Park
1900 Heritage Dr. S.W. Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2V 2X3
Email: info@heritagepark.ca
Phone: 403.268.8500
Atlas Lumber Yard & Office
Closed
Hours of Operation
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Monday
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Tuesday
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Wednesday
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Thursday
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Friday
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Saturday
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Sunday
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Exhibit Details
Category
Building/Museum
Guest Amenities
- Wheelchair Accessible
About the Atlas Lumber Yard & Office
Alberta’s population boom at the turn of the last century created an insatiable market for milled lumber. Large corporations, financed by groups of investors, recognized the lumber industry’s potential, and in 1901, an unidentified company appointed A.E. Bowers and John Fletcher to establish a lumber yard in Airdrie.
The lumber yard later became an outlet for Atlas Lumber Co., whose parent company was headquartered in Minneapolis. Atlas was a generous employer, giving turkeys to its married workers at Christmas, donating money to support Airdrie’s Sports Day and accepting grain in lieu of cash payments. In 1968, Brett Sine, owner of the Revelstoke Lumber Co., donated the Atlas shed and office to Heritage Park.
