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James Carter Helped Build Alberta’s Oil Sands and Fort McMurray
Jim Carter was 29 at Syncrude when his team pioneered hydro-transport, cutting…
Father Lacombe Built Alberta’s Oldest Standing Building in 1861
The Father Lacombe Chapel, a small white log building on a hill…
Art Froehlich Spent a Lifetime Cultivating Alberta’s Agriculture Industry
Art Froehlich grew up on a mixed farm near Rhein, Saskatchewan, worked…
The Engineer Who Drove the First Car Across the Rockies
James Morey Wardle drove from Banff to Invermere in seven hours in…
Cheryl Foggo Brings Alberta’s Black Pioneer History to Vivid Life
Cheryl Foggo grew up in Calgary's Bowness and spent four decades documenting…
Prairie Sentinels and Alberta’s Vanishing Wooden Grain Elevators
Alberta's first wooden grain elevator went up in 1895 and nearly 1,800…
Jasper House and the Mountain Pass That Decided the Western Trade
Jasper House provisioned brigades crossing the Athabasca Pass for fifty-four years and…
Turner Valley and the First Oil Boom That Built Modern Alberta
Dingman No. 1 struck oil in the Turner Valley in 1914 and…
A Fort Macleod Theatre Has Been Selling Tickets Since 1912
The Empress Theatre opened on the main street of Fort Macleod in…
Eleanor Chiu Built a Homebuilding Career on Doing Good
Eleanor Chiu arrived in Calgary from Hong Kong in 1982, helped grow…
