woodbend leduc Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/woodbend-leduc Sat, 17 Dec 2016 18:37:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 LEDUC MAP EDMONTON http://toursmaps.com/leduc-map-edmonton.html http://toursmaps.com/leduc-map-edmonton.html#respond Sun, 18 Dec 2016 23:06:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=228388 LEDUC MAP EDMONTON Directions: Exit Edmonton on Hwy 2 south, and choose exit 519 to Leduc. Distance: 35.4 km, or about 37 minutes, from Edmonton. Info: 780-986-5454; www.leduc.ca. Leduc’s first settler, Robert Taylor Telford, came to this picturesque prairie parkland in 1889. The area’s first postmaster, general merchant, and justice of the peace, Telford later served as mayor and member of the legislative assembly. The settlement was informally called Telford until approximately 1890 when then Lieutenant-Governor Dewdney of the North-West Territories set up a station on the Dominion Telegraph line. He called it Leduc to honour missionary Father Hippolyte Leduc

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