Okotoks

Okotoks is a town in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is arranged on the Sheep River, roughly 18 km 11 mi south of the City of Calgary. The town is an individual from the Calgary Regional Partnership, a helpful of districts inside the Calgary Region. Okotoks has risen as a room network of Calgary. According to the 2016 Census, the town has a populace of 28,881, making it the biggest town in Alberta. The town's name is gotten from "ohkotok", the Blackfoot First Nation word for "shake".

The name may allude to Big Rock, the biggest chilly inconsistent in the Foothills Erratics Train, arranged around 7 km 4.3 mi west of the town. Prior to European settlement, venturing First Nations utilized the stone as a marker to discover the stream crossing arranged at Okotoks. The clans were itinerant and frequently pursued expansive bison groups for their sustenance. David Thompson investigated the territory as ahead of schedule as 1800.

Before long exchanging posts jumped up, incorporating one built up in 1874 at the Sheep River crossing on the ebb and flow Okotoks townsite. This intersection was on an exchange course called the Macleod Trail, which drove from Fort Benton, Montana to Calgary. In 1879, the zone saw the slaughtering of the last bison. Government renting of land for one penny for every section of land $2.47/km² started in 1880. This made a noteworthy change in the district. The main pilgrims touched base in 1882.