The Town of Stavely is a thriving town of around 500 residents. They are located about halfway between Calgary and Lethbridge on Highway No. 2. Situated in what Stavelyites like to think of as Alberta's "Banana Belt". Many times when traveling home we see the outside Temp jump as we get close to town. It is an ideal ranching and farming area with rolling prairies to the east and foothills to the west.
The Town was named for Alexander Staveley Hill, Managing Director of the Oxley Ranching Company which was formed in 1882. With the influx of settlers, the box-car stop and tent-town progressed to the status of a village in 1903 and to a town in 1912 - and now 100 years old!