Cardston
Cardston is a town of about 3,600 people in the foothills of Southern Alberta. It was founded by a number of Mormon families from Utah and their temple was the first built outside of the United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 3,590 residents
- Description: town in Alberta
- Neighbors: Pincher Creek
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cardston Alberta Temple and Remington Carriage Museum.
Cardston Alberta Temple
Church
Photo: Matthias Süßen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cardston Alberta Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Cardston, Alberta. It was the eighth temple constructed and is the sixth still in operation.
Remington Carriage Museum
Museum
The Remington Carriage Museum is located in Cardston, Alberta, Canada. Opened in 1993, and the largest of its kind in the world, the Remington Carriage Museum displays more than 240 carriages.
Cardston
- Categories: town in Alberta and locality
- Location: Cardston, Southern Alberta, Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
49.2001° or 49° 12′ 0″ northLongitude
-113.3166° or 113° 18′ 60″ westPopulation
3,590Elevation
1,136 metres (3,727 feet)United Nations Location Code
CA CDSOpen location code
85X86M2M+29OpenStreetMap ID
node 51969702OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Cardston” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Cardston”
- Atikamekw: “Cardston”
- Catalan: “Cardston”
- Cebuano: “Cardston”
- Danish: “Cardston”
- Dutch: “Cardston”
- French: “Cardston”
- Galician: “Cardston”
- German: “Cardston”
- Hebrew: “קרדסטון”
- Irish: “Cardston”
- Italian: “Cardston”
- Japanese: “カードストン”
- Kurdish: “Cardston”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cardston”
- Portuguese: “Cardston”
- Romanian: “Cardston, Alberta”
- Romanian: “Cardston”
- Russian: “Кардстон”
- Serbian: “Кардстон”
- Spanish: “Cardston”
- Swedish: “Cardston”
- Turkish: “Cardston”
- Ukrainian: “Кардстон”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Cardston”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.