Cardston Alberta LDS (Mormon) Temple – 1953

I mentioned a couple weeks ago about finding some old slides my father took in the early 1950s (1951 through 1953). I started scanning them into .jpg format yesterday. I haven’t made it to his Japan photos (while in the military) yet.

I’m not sure why Hawaiian dancers were entertaining the visitors to the temple on this day.

You may be wondering, why did the Mormon Church put a temple in Cardston, instead of in a population center like Calgary, more than 110 years ago? The answer is that Cardston is just over the USA/Canadian border, and it was a polygamy hot spot for Mormons fleeing the USA to practice polygamy. Polygamy wasn’t legal in Canada either, but apparently it was easier to continue the illegal practice in Canada than in the USA around that time. An article on the subject of Mormons and Cardston

Posted on February 13th, 2013 under Canada • Tags: vintage color slides. • RSS 2.0 feed • Both comments and pings are currently closed