Millet

Millet is a town in focal Alberta, Canada, found roughly 40 kilometers 25 mi south of Alberta's capital city of Edmonton. The town has won broadly in the Communities in Bloom rivalry and markets its excellent setting. The Town of Millet was named out of appreciation for August Millet, who was accepted to be a canoeist for Father Lacombe. Another conceivable wellspring of the name is that it is named after French painter Jean-Francois Millet, a most loved of railroad head honcho William Cornelius Van Horne, who additionally named close-by Hobbema after Dutch painter Meindert Hobbema. On June 17, 1903, Millet was announced a town by an Order-in-Council of the Northwest Territories.

By 1908, Millet's first councilors were chosen. In October 1927, a terrible fire demolished a considerable lot of the structures along the east side of Railway Street. In 1950, the Board of Trade assembled a network lobby and offered it to the Village. The corridor is as yet being utilized today. In 1953, Northwestern Utilities conveyed petroleum gas to the Village. Griffiths Scott School was worked in 1982, and a Senior Citizens Apartment was finished in 1983. On September 1, 1983, Millet was announced a town, and "Coming to Town" festivities were hung on October 15, 1983.