Sunnynook Cemetery
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Sunnynook Cemetery

Sunnynook, Hanna Census Division, Alberta, Canada – *No GPS coordinates

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Sunnynook is a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada within Special Area No. 2.[1][2] It is located approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) east of Highway 36 and 86 kilometres (53 mi) northeast of Brooks. The hamlet formerly housed the Berry Creek Community School Division office and area post office until amalgamation of the school division into Prairie Land Regional Division
Sunnynook, some 30 miles southeast of Hanna, got its start in 1918. Things began to improve when the railroad came through in 1921. The village boasted a general store, two lumberyards, a poolroom, a hardware store, a furniture store, and a drugstore. There was also a gambling hall that stayed open 24 hours a day and was reputed to be the most profitable business in town. Sunnynook was a bustling town of 300 at its peak but started to go down hill in the 1940s. It was followed by a tornado some years later that destroyed many of the then empty buildings and the hamlet became a true ghost town. H.B. Chenoweth
Sunnynook is a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada within Special Area No. 2.[1][2] It is located approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) east of Highway 36 and 86 kilometres (53 mi) northeast of Brooks. The hamlet formerly housed the Berry Creek Community School Division office and area post office until amalgamation of the school division into Prairie Land Regional Division
Sunnynook, some 30 miles southeast of Hanna, got its start in 1918. Things began to improve when the railroad came through in 1921. The village boasted a general store, two lumberyards, a poolroom, a hardware store, a furniture store, and a drugstore. There was also a gambling hall that stayed open 24 hours a day and was reputed to be the most profitable business in town. Sunnynook was a bustling town of 300 at its peak but started to go down hill in the 1940s. It was followed by a tornado some years later that destroyed many of the then empty buildings and the hamlet became a true ghost town. H.B. Chenoweth

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