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The Good Luck Town

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The Community of Langdon became well known as the “Good Luck Town” around 1908, in part due to the lack of deaths in the area over a 25-year period. Langdon was also located on the horseshoe shaped railway turnaround, adding to the Good Luck Town status. This horseshoe, however, is not very traditional, as it […]

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Parade of Garage Sales

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The Parade of Garage Sales is an annual event at the beginning of May that kicks off the garage sale season and is one of the largest in the region. Some seniors suggest the sale has been taking place in Langdon for forty to fifty years. Depending on the weather the number of individual sales […]

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Langdon Days

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The Langdon Days is an annual event that typically happens the weekend (Fri-Sun) after the Calgary Stampede ends (July). Parade (we throw candy!), breakfast, beer gardens, ball tournament, kids carnival/shows, food trucks, market, car show, music, fireworks, etc. This is a community tradition since its inauguration in 1945.

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Langdon Main Street

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Langdon has been home to the critically acclaimed Main Street shopping area for some time — its style replicates the way Langdon buildings looked back in 1908 — it’s seeing new shopping and services, including its first Tim Hortons, plus a Buy-Low Foods grocery store, the hamlet’s first large grocery.

Old Grain Elevators Place

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The grain elevators were one of the crucial details of the Langdon landscape for dozens of years. Langdon used to be on the Canadian Pacific Railway mainline until it was shifted to run through Indus and Carseland on the present-day CP Brooks subdivision. There are no grain elevators here anymore. We investigated where this place […]

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Langdon Old School

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Langdon currently has two schools – Sarah Thompson Elementary School for students in kindergarten to Grade 5, and Langdon School, which serves students from kindergarten to Grade 9. But many Langdon residents have nostalgic memories of the old school building next to the main street behind the bottle storage. You can see it practically from […]

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Boulder Creek Golf Course

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Langdon is home to Boulder Creek golf course, a 6963 yard, par 72, 18 hole golf course. Located 30 minutes from downtown Calgary, Boulder Creek combines championship golf with a relaxed country atmosphere. With 30 acres of water at the Boulder Creek Golf Course, the defining design characteristic is water features on 14 of 18 holes.

Langdon Legacy Skatepark

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In Langdon Park on Centre St. | Entrance to the park driveway is at the first baseball diamond; continue south on the driveway to the parking lot. The park is to the east of the parking lot. Near the skatepark is an ice rink that is filled during the winter months.

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