SUNNYNOOK

NAME: Sunnynook COUNTY: N/A ROADS: 4WD GRID: 2 CLIMATE: Mild summer,cold winter BEST TIME TO VISIT: Summer

COMMENTS: East Central Alberta REMAINS: After the tornado, not much.

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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