Tag: Alberta heritage

The Small Alberta Town That Built A UFO Landing Pad

St. Paul, Alberta poured 130 tonnes of concrete into the world's first…

How A Tiny Prairie Town’s Gopher Museum Went Global

Torrington, Alberta lost its railway and grain elevators, then opened the Gopher…

Vulcan Alberta’s Accidental Rise To Star Trek Fame

A CPR surveyor named Vulcan, Alberta after the Roman god of fire…

The Farm That Sold Alberta To Strangers

Established near Vulcan in 1912, the CPR Demonstration Farm was a working…

Superman’s Smallville Was Filmed On The Alberta Prairies

In August 1977 Glenn Ford played Jonathan Kent on real southern Alberta…

From Ten Cents an Hour to Five Thousand Acres in Calgary

Harnam Singh Hari left the Indian Army in 1908, reached Calgary in…

The Alberta Coal Town Named After the Company That Built It

Cadomin in Alberta's Coal Branch takes its name from Canadian Dominion Mining,…

The Two-Headed Calf That Became a Drumheller Legend

A two-headed calf born near Beiseker in December 1970 lived only hours,…

A City of 3000 Once Stood Below Castle Mountain

Silver City sat in the Bow Valley about 30 km northwest of…

The Day the Paperwork Finally Caught Up to Alberta

Ten thousand people filled the river flats below Edmonton on September 1,…