Shepard Township has a strong history as a railroad station in the early 1900’s and the hamlet is still there today, housing over 100 families.
A rail station was built at Shepard by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1884. It was named after one of the partners of Langdon, Shepard and Co., a large American firm contracted to build the line across the prairies. Shepard would become the place where the Canadian Pacific Railway line split to go northeast to Strathmore, and southeast to Gleichen and Medicine Hat.
The station built in Shepard in 1910 was later donated to Heritage Park by the CPR. It was probably the second station built in Shepard. Records indicate that the first station was just a small, unmanned flag station.
Shepard was annexed from Rocky View County in 2007, and is one of several former hamlets and towns that are now communities in the city of Calgary. Some of the others include Bowness, Forest Lawn, and Midnapore.
You won't see Shepard Station at the cache site but this is how it looks in Heritage Park.