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Originally Posted by Fugly
Huh? I'm still brushing up on my Cochrane history but I believe the town has been around since the 1800s and was originally a ranch that evolved into a town. I think the original rancher's name was Tom Cochrane.
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Senator Matthew Cochrane actually, though he didn't actually set foot in the ranch from my recollection, he just owned it.
The section with the issues Red Slinger mentioned is Glenagles, that and the Sunterra Ridge area (above Cochrane Heights, next to the cemetary) are the two areas I'd never live in, or below. Sunterra was built above where an old road that used to run to the cemetary was, and the road was closed as the couple vehicles a day that used it were causing the road to slide. Then years later that was seemingly forgotten and the town let someone build a hundred houses in the same spot pretty much.
I grew up in Cochrane myself, and love the town. Live in Calgary now though, but maybe one day I'll be back out there. My parents are still there and I go out every so often, and even when I was commuting daily I never once had a problem with getting into the city. The contractor that does the highways does a good job, you can tell where the city starts plowing though as the highway will be dry and clear right up to 12 Mile Coulee where the contractors turn around and head back, past there its snow packed and icy.