Gwynne is a hamlet in central Alberta, Canada within the County of Wetaskiwin No. 10. It is located on Highway 13, approximately 11 kilometres east of Wetaskiwin. In 1902, pioneer homesteader Charles Rodberg opened a store and post office along the railway and the area was known as Rodberg's Crossing, or Rodberg's Flat. Later the area …Gwynne is a hamlet in central Alberta, Canada within the County of Wetaskiwin No. 10. It is located on Highway 13, approximately 11 kilometres east of Wetaskiwin. In 1902, pioneer homesteader Charles Rodberg opened a store and post office along the railway and the area was known as Rodberg's Crossing, or Rodberg's Flat. Later the area was known as Diana, after his eldest child, and the Post Office was called the Diana Post Office. When the CPR arrived in 1905 the community was renamed to honor the wife of a railway official. Julia Maude Schreiber was the second wife of Sir Collingwood Schreiber, a railway builder, former chief engineer of the CPR and former federal deputy minister of railways and canals. Julia was president of the Ottawa Ladies' golf club and vice-regent of the Daughters of the Empire in Ottawa. It is doubtful that she ever set foot in the hamlet named after her.
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