Mirror, Alberta
[5] The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1911[6] built a branch line from Southern Alberta to connect Edmonton and Calgary, running their railroad through Tofield, down to Camrose, west of Buffalo Lake, across the Red Deer River, towards Trochu, Three Hills, Beiseker, and southwest Calgary.[8] However, they ran into difficulty when they were trying to purchase the land and they constructed their divisional point two miles to the South.With the introduction and the increasing popularity of diesel powered engines a divisional point in between Edmonton and Calgary was no longer necessary, rendering the facilities at Mirror obsolete.All the bustle and activity that marked the village for so many decades slowly died out as the majority of railway personnel were either transferred to other areas or retired.[9] As the railroaders left, the local economy declined, and the village of Mirror dissolved to a hamlet in 2004.