Where is cardston ab

Town of Cardston Historic Temple City. Business of the Week. Utilities — electricity and natural gas transmission and distribution, and international electricity operations. Energy Infrastructure — electricity generation, energy storage and industrial water solutions. Smith announced that a temple would be built in Cardston.

The temple would be the first outside of the United States and notable for its modern design and lack of a large assembly room. Ground was broken on November 9, , and construction continued intermittently for ten years.

The edifice was finally dedicated by President Heber J. Grant on August 26, When the temple was completed, Wood was called as its first president, serving from until Cardston today is home to more than 3, people and is still a predominantly LDS farming town. There are two Cardston LDS stakes encompassing sixteen area wards, and the temple continues to serve the large Latter-day Saint population in the region.

Charles Ora Card—the man who settled much of Southern Alberta—had few peers as a colonizer. The Alberta now Cardston Temple was the first temple built outside the United States, the first without spires or an assembly room, and the first with a design bid on by professional architects.

The last two years of construction were needed just to furnish the temple and prepare it for use; public tours were offered to visitors during this time. A water feature inside the east entrance to the Cardston Alberta Temple features a foot wide sculpted stone panel depicting Jesus Christ offering living water to the Samaritan woman at the well.

The striking sculpture was originally the centerpiece of an exterior courtyard, but it was later enclosed. The Cardston Alberta Temple is one of only six temples where patrons progress through four ordinance rooms before passing into the Celestial Room. Brown, who resided in Alberta for many years after his family moved there when he was sixteen years old.