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Business View Magazine
Gateway to the Rockies
“Growth is definitely on Hinton’s horizon”
The Alberta town now known as Hinton evolved from a
construction camp that was initially established during
the building of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway – which
stretched from southern Manitoba to the British Co-
lumbia coast – in the earliest days of the 20th century.
The railway built a station house named for its vice
president and general manager, William P. Hinton, and
the community that subsequently developed around
it was officially labeled a hamlet until it amalgamated
with the adjacent village of Drinnan to form the town of
Hinton on April 1, 1957.
Resource industries like coal mining and pulp mill-
ing helped account for intermittent population shifts
across several decades prior to the arrival of the 21st
century, though those numbers have stayed stable
– with changes only measured in low single-digit per-
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