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One West Calgary Classroom Grew Into A School
Monique Barrie bought Aspen Hill Montessori in 2012 with 18 students, and…
Cochrane Sculptor Don Begg Casts Alberta Stories in Bronze
Don Begg has placed life-sized bronze figures in 26 Alberta communities and…
The Concrete Aqueduct That Once Turned Dry Alberta Prairie Into Farmland
A line of pale concrete arches east of Brooks carried irrigation water…
The Buffalo Lake Métis Settlement Was the Largest Métis Wintering Village in the West
In the winter of 1872 and into the late 1870s, the largest…
The Alberta Rock Towers That Wear Hats Of Stone
A Drumheller hoodoo is a column of soft rock capped by a…
The Alberta Oil Well That Came In On Its Last Chance
Imperial Oil was close to giving up on western Canada when a…
The $513 Lancaster Bomber Three Nanton Men Saved From Scrap
A hangar on Highway 2 at Nanton holds Avro Lancaster FM159, one…
The Alberta Farmer Iceland Still Calls One Of Its Greatest Poets
Stephan G. Stephansson farmed near Markerville by day and wrote after midnight,…
The Castle In The Rockies That Was Built Facing The Wrong Way
William Cornelius Van Horne built the Banff Springs Hotel to fill CPR…
The Fort Whoop-Up Archaeological Site and What the Ground Still Holds
The 1870 rebuild of Fort Whoop-Up near Lethbridge carries its own heritage…
