Nobleford hoping for birthday gift from province: town status
NOBLEFORD – Entering the village of Nobleford, visitors are greeted by a welcome sign that includes an antique farm implement: the Noble Blade.
In 1918, a village was established around the plant built by Charles Sherwood Noble to construct his cultivator. One hundred years later, that village – suddenly thriving – wants to take the next step and become a town.
Mayor Don McDowell said it’s no accident the community started to boom in the middle of the last decade.
“In 2004 the council of the day made kind of a momentous decision, if you will, to try to ramp up what Nobleford was,” he explained in an interview. Noble’s invention was becoming obsolete, and the town was starting to “slide backwards,” in McDowell’s words.