Tangent, Alberta
It was named by surveyors due to the formation of a tangent (straight-section) in the rail track that ran from Edmonton to Dawson Creek.On June 18, 1928, John Yaremko chose to settle at the current location of the hamlet, later joined by Albert Purcha and his family.The spring of 1929 brought a large group of settlers under the recruitment of Father Josephat Hamelin.Natural gas was discovered in the 1950s, opening up a new industry alongside agriculture and animal husbandry.Today, Tangent is an agricultural community made up of mostly Franco-Albertans descended from the settlers that followed Father Hamelin, Eastern European Canadians, and Anglo-Canadians.