Before electric or motorized coal cars, pit ponies were the muscle used…
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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…
Pioneer Truck Museum
» Part 1: Irricana, Pioneer Acres, Long House, and Irricana United Church…
Pioneer Acres, Irricana
» Part 1: Irricana, Pioneer Acres, Long House, and Irricana United Church…
Wayne, Alberta
Welcome to Wayne, population then 2490, now 27. Coal once dominated these…
Okotoks Erratic
It looks rather odd sitting in the middle of flat prairie… out…
Dorothy, Alberta — the Town Named After a Young Pioneer
If you wander south through the badlands, past the Tyrrell Museum, past…
SunMaze, Bowden
On the QEII highway, South of Red Deer and North of Calgary,…
The Gophers of Torrington
As you wind your way through farmland and abandoned townships in central…
Trekkie Tourism in Vulcan, Alberta
It’s not like the planet Vulcan of Star Trek fame: barren, fiery,…
Grassi Lakes, Canmore
On Friday my good little Albertan child said: “Mama, let’s go to…