Drayton Valley is a town in central Alberta , Canada. It is located on Highway 22 (Cowboy Trail), approximately 133 kilometres (83 mi) southwest of Edmonton . It is surrounded by Brazeau County , known for its vast oil fields. The town is located between the North Saskatchewan River and the Pembina River .
25-586: The town was named after Drayton, Hampshire , the birthplace of the wife of one of the Alberta town's postmasters. Prior to the 1953 oil boom, the community of Drayton Valley was sparsely populated. The main economic activities were farming and logging . Drayton Valley was incorporated as a village in 1956 and officially became a town in 1957. In 1955 a ferry was built to cross the North Saskatchewan River. The original bridge that replaced
50-533: A fast rise throughout the south of the original 4-mile (6.4 km) by 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 -mile (2.0 km) strip parish in suburban and urban house building, and strong economic ties with the city. The hamlet of Drayton is now gradually developing into a residential locality. To the north of the road immediately past the New Inn is the Drayton building estate, on which new villas are rising steadily. South of
75-573: Is no Englishman to whom [the VCH] does not in some one or other of its features make a direct appeal". More recent volumes – especially those published since the 1950s – have been more wide-ranging in their approach, and have included systematic coverage of social and economic history , industrial history , population history , educational history , landscape history , religious nonconformity , and so on; individual parish histories have consequently grown considerably in length and complexity. From 1902
100-671: Is also home to the annual DV100 bicycle race. Drayton Valley has six public schools, two Catholic schools, and one outreach school. The public schools and outreach school are operated by the Wild Rose School Division while the Catholic schools are operated by the St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic School Division . Drayton Valley is served by two weekly newspapers, the Drayton Valley Western Review and
125-504: Is as follows: Several volumes are not currently being worked on. Much of the content of the older VCH volumes is now accessible via the British History Online digital library , digitised by double rekeying. Priority has been given to the topographical volumes containing histories of individual parishes. The more general introductory volumes are excluded for the time being, with the exception of those sections covering
150-513: The 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Town of Drayton Valley recorded a population of 7,235 living in 2,782 of its 3,116 total private dwellings, a 1.6% change from its 2011 population of 7,118. With a land area of 30.72 km (11.86 sq mi), it had a population density of 235.5/km (610.0/sq mi) in 2016. Oil and gas is the primary driver of Drayton Valley's economy. Agriculture and forestry also play roles in
175-659: The Church of England the Church of the Resurrection and its hall is at the end of a short avenue north of Havant Road. The foundation stone was laid on 22 April 1930, by Lady Heath Harrison, the Bishop of Portsmouth attending. It includes a food bank and regular fairtrade goods market. Drayton United Church is a joint Methodist and United Reformed Church on Havant Road; its building has all of its windows and their casements in
200-557: The Drayton Valley and District Free Press and one radio station, CIBW-FM , mainly playing country music. A Christian radio station, CIDV-FM , was launched in 2009. Drayton, Hampshire Drayton is a residential area of the city of Portsmouth in the English county of Hampshire . Together with Farlington , its parent area, it makes up one of the electoral wards of the city. The earliest mention of Drayton
225-598: The VCH , is an English history project which began in 1899 with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of England , and was dedicated to Queen Victoria . In 2012 the project was rededicated to Queen Elizabeth II in celebration of her Diamond Jubilee year. Since 1933 the project has been coordinated by the Institute of Historical Research in the University of London . The history of
250-482: The pedigrees of county families . Genealogical volumes were published in a large folio format for Northamptonshire (1906) and Hertfordshire (1907), but the research costs were found to be excessive, and this side of the project was discontinued. Some of the county histories have been completed, as follows: For each uncompleted county history on which work is continuing (i.e.: "active" in VCH terminology), progress
275-518: The 1970s. Some inactive counties have recently been reactivated. There are now more than 230 VCH volumes, with around three new volumes published per year. Each is published with a red cover, and they are therefore sometimes known as "the big red books". When the Institute of Historical Research published a short history of the project to mark the 75th anniversary of taking it over, it was titled The Little Big Red Book . A special edition Jubilee book
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#1732797276329300-612: The Drayton Railway Triangle, in which the expansive Railway Triangle Industrial Estate resides, and is accessible from Walton Road, Drayton, Portsmouth. 50°50′41″N 1°02′39″W / 50.84472°N 1.04417°W / 50.84472; -1.04417 Victoria County History The Victoria History of the Counties of England , commonly known as the Victoria County History or
325-399: The VCH falls into three main phases, defined by different funding regimes: an early phase, 1899–1914, when the project was conceived as a commercial enterprise, and progress was rapid; a second more desultory phase, 1914–1947, when relatively little progress was made; and the third phase beginning in 1947, when, under the auspices of the Institute of Historical Research, a high academic standard
350-534: The VCH's major sponsor. In February 2005 the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded the VCH £3,374,000 to fund the England's Past for Everyone project, which ran from September that year until February 2010. The first VCH volume was published in 1901, and publication continued slowly throughout the 20th century, although in some counties it has come to a halt, especially during World War I and again in
375-485: The county as a whole, including major themes, such as religious history, agriculture, industries, population (with summary tables of decennial census totals 1801–1901), and an introduction to and translation of the relevant section of Domesday Book . These volumes are followed by others consisting of detailed historical surveys of each Hundred , Wapentake (discussed in separate riding volumes) and ward , parish by parish. At first, ancient ecclesiastical parishes formed
400-454: The efforts of a large number of young research workers, mostly female, fresh from degree courses at Oxford , Cambridge , London or the Scottish universities , for whom other employment opportunities were limited: the VCH of this period has been described as "a history for gentlemen largely researched by ladies". From 1909 until 1931 Frederick Smith , later 2nd Viscount Hambleden , was
425-420: The ferry was eventually replaced by a new bridge in 2014. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , the Town of Drayton Valley had a population of 7,291 living in 2,897 of its 3,250 total private dwellings, a change of 0.8% from its 2016 population of 7,235. With a land area of 30.9 km (11.9 sq mi), it had a population density of 236.0/km (611.1/sq mi) in 2021. In
450-466: The joint general editors were H. Arthur Doubleday and William Page . Doubleday resigned (in acrimonious circumstances) in 1904, leaving Page as sole general editor until his death in 1934. In 1932 Page bought the rights to the ailing project for a nominal sum, donating it to the Institute of Historical Research the following year. Page was succeeded as general editor by L. F. Salzman , who remained in post until 1949. The early volumes depended heavily on
475-654: The local economy. A sawmill is located in the town. Drayton Valley's Omniplex is a community sports centre that hosts ice hockey , ringette , curling , soccer , baseball and rodeo . The town also has a public swimming pool , a ski hill , a bowling alley, and the Drayton Valley Golf and Country Club. Drayton Valley is the home of the Drayton Valley Thunder of the Alberta Junior Hockey League . Drayton Valley
500-643: The medieval style and it was built in the early 20th century. In the Catholic Church St Colman's Church and its Hall are in Cosham, in green landscaped grounds, 600 metres west from the above church, equally on Havant Road. Station Road, Drayton once served the now-demolished Farlington Racecourse station which closed in 1938. Likewise, the station intended for Station Road, Copnor was never built, so Portsmouth now has two Station Roads without railway stations. Drayton also lends its name to
525-468: The road is Drayton Manor, the residence of Lieut.-Col. Alfred Robert William Thistlethwayte, approached from the main road by Drayton Lane. — A History of the County of Hampshire : Volume 3 , ed. William Page (London, 1908), pp. 148-151 The New Inn survives and is protected under UK law in the initial category (grade II listing). East of a mid-rise block of flats is a milestone, equally listed. In
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#1732797276329550-424: The unit of investigation, but since the mid-1950s the VCH parish is the civil parish , the modern successor of the ancient parishes or of townships within them. Large towns are dealt with as a whole, including, since the 1960s, built-up areas of adjoining, formerly rural parishes. Under the original plan, each county, in addition to its general and topographical volumes, was to have a genealogical volume containing
575-669: Was as a manor of Farlington parish. It appears in a document of the year 1250, when Henry III gave a moiety (legally fixed half share) of the land there to Roger de Merlay. Dreton appears as its form in the 14th century. Unlike the majority of the city, Drayton lies on the mainland rather than Portsea Island . The manor may be included under the Domesday Book of 1086's entry of Cosham ; both were within decades confirmed as in Farlington parish. The area including Drayton became incorporated into Portsmouth in 1920. This followed
600-454: Was published in 2012, A Diamond Jubilee Celebration 1899–2012. A map showing the publication status appears on the VCH website. From its inception, responsibility for writing the volumes was delegated to local editors for each individual county. The county editors traditionally worked under the direction of a general editor, following a uniform format and style. In general, the histories begin with one or more volumes of general studies of
625-435: Was set, and progress has been slow but reasonably steady. These phases have also been characterised by changing attitudes towards the proper scope of English local history . The early volumes were planned on the model of traditional English county histories , with a strong emphasis on manorial descents, the advowsons of parish churches, and the local landed gentry : a prospectus of c. 1904 stated that "there
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