Lacombe

Lacombe is a city of 13,000 in the Central Corridor region of Alberta.

Understand
Lacombe is approximately 25 km north of Red Deer, 125 km south of Edmonton, and 175 km north of Calgary. It is set in the rolling parkland of central Alberta, between the Rocky Mountains foothills to the west and the flatter Alberta prairie to the east.

Lacombe is named after Albert Lacombe (28 February 1827 — 12 December 1916), a French-Canadian Roman Catholic Oblate missionary who lived among and evangelized the Cree and Blackfoot First Nations of western Canada. He is now remembered for having brokered a peace between the Cree and Blackfoot, negotiating construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway through Blackfoot territory, and securing a promise from the Blackfoot leader Crowfoot to refrain from joining the North-West Rebellion of 1885.

Get in

 * The Queen Elizabeth II Highway (Highway 2), allow about 1 hr 30 min to drive from either Edmonton or Calgary main airports.

Go next

 * Red Deer
 * Sylvan Lake