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The Longview Silversmith Who Ended Up on a Canadian Stamp
Scott Hardy spends more than 65 hours cutting a three-piece belt buckle…
A One Year Old Grizzly Outclimbed a Fence Built to Stop Him
Fitz, a yearling grizzly at the Calgary Zoo, climbed a two metre…
Alberta’s Pickup Truck Culture Is Trading Lift Kits for Lowriders
Lifted trucks and oversized tires are giving way on Alberta streets to…
The Wagon Route That Fed Calgary Before the Railway Came
From about 1870 to 1885, bull trains of 130 oxen and 30…
The False Front on Main Street Was a Bet
Boomtown fronts went up across Alberta in the 1880s railway rush, squaring…
Alberta Main Streets Still Park the Way Wagons Did
Angle parking on Barrhead's main street survives from the days teams and…
An Edmonton Team Lost Only 20 Games in 25 Years
The Edmonton Commercial Graduates lost about 20 games between 1915 and 1940.…
The Day the Paperwork Finally Caught Up to Alberta
Ten thousand people filled the river flats below Edmonton on September 1,…
1,411,954 Reasons the Stampede Is Not Slowing Down
The 114th Calgary Stampede drew 1,411,954 guests over ten days, its third…
The New Yorker Who Invented Calgary’s Loudest Ten Days
Guy Weadick staged the first Calgary Stampede in September 1912 with $20,000…
