Raymond: The Town Raymond came in to existence when the last
significant Mormon migration to Alberta occurred in 1901. This
was not a migration formally instigated by the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter DaySaints, as had been the case with Cardston.
Rather, this was a spontaneous migration largely motivated by
the economic opportunities being created in Southern Alberta by
Jesse Knight, a wealthy miner and industrialist from Utah who
planned tobuild a sugar factory and a town.Settlers thus would
have triple opportunity for making a livelihood in Raymond.
There were jobs related to the sugar factory, business
opportunities in town, and farming and ranching could be carried
on in surrounding areas where land was relatively inexpensive.
In the spring of 1900, Charles Magrath, for whom the town of
Magrath was named, passed out sugar beet seeds to some of the
farmers at Magrath and Stirling and in the fall sent samples of
the harvested beets to the Utah Sugar Company at Lehi, Utah for
analysis. The report from th