Leduc

Leduc is a city in the area of Alberta, Canada. It is 33 kilometers 21 mi south of the commonplace capital of Edmonton and is a piece of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region. Leduc was built up in 1899, when Robert Telford, a pilgrim, purchased arrive close to a lake which would later bear his name. It was on that land parcel where the new settlement would flourish. Telford already filled in as an officer for the North-West Mounted Police, and later turned into Leduc's first postmaster, first broad galleon, and first equity of the peace. The foundation of the Calgary and Edmonton Railway, later gained by the Canadian Pacific Railway, opened the locale to settlement. The primary prepare ceased at Leduc in July 1891.

Two renditions depict how Leduc got its name. As indicated by prominent nearby legend, it was chosen in 1890 when a pilgrim McKinlay setting up a transmit office required a name for the new settlement and concluded that it would be named after the primary individual who got through the entryway of the broadcast office. That individual was Father Hippolyte Leduc, a minister who had served the territory since 1867. In another, more official, form, the Minister of the Interior and Superintendent of Indian Affairs, who had been Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories, Edgar Dewdney 1835– 1916, chose that Telford Place ought to be renamed at the time the railroad terminal was built up in 1891, and picked the name of the teacher cleric.