Municipalities

Named after a town in Scotland, Airdrie was founded in 1899 as a stopping point for steam trains traveling alongside Nose Creek. At the time, only railway buildings existed until 1901, when the first structures were erected. What began as a farmhouse, a barn, a post office, and a store developed into an incorporated municipality in 1909. The name “Airdrie” means “The King’s Height.” William McKenzie, a contracting engineer for the Calgary and Edmonton Railway, named the village in 1889.

By 1929, the first Pool grain elevator, a 40,000-bushel structure was built in Airdrie. During that time the hamilet had began its process of including farming into its market by signing some of the local farmers to the No.1 contract witht the Alberta Wheat Pool which eventualy earned Airdrie the reputation as one of the strongest Alberta Wheat Pool points in the province.