La Niña’s favourite non-ghost story told at the Atlas Mine is set…
Category: Drumheller
Lamps for Coal Miners
Going to the Altas Coal Mine brought back many stories from my…
Pit Ponies, Atlas Coal Mine
Before electric or motorized coal cars, pit ponies were the muscle used…
Atlas Coal Mine, East Coulee
WANTED: COAL MINERS Hardworking men needed to work the pits from 1911-1979.…
Willow Creek Hoodoo Trail
Call them tent rocks, hoodoos or Ma’Tapiiks (Blackfoot), these interesting rocks pepper…
Wayne, Alberta
Welcome to Wayne, population then 2490, now 27. Coal once dominated these…
Dorothy, Alberta — the Town Named After a Young Pioneer
If you wander south through the badlands, past the Tyrrell Museum, past…