Balzac
Locality
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Approximately 18 km north of Calgary.
A Canadian Pacific Railway station began operating at this site in 1910. It is believed to be named by W.C. Van Horne then president of the railway after one of his favourite authors, Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) a noted French novelist. The post office here was opened in April 1912 under the name Beddington, after the town near Croydon, England. The name was changed to coincide with the station and community of Balzac in July 1925.