The Alberta Flag Belongs To The People Who Built This Place
Blue sky, mountains, foothills, prairie and wheat is the official Alberta flag…
The Last Wooden Coal Tipple Standing In All Of Canada
A seven storey wooden coal tipple still leans into the valley wind…
The Bishop’s Palace at St. Albert and How Alberta’s Catholic Hierarchy Set Up Shop
Construction on the Bishop's Palace at St. Albert started in 1872 under…
The Concrete Aqueduct That Once Turned Dry Alberta Prairie Into Farmland
A line of pale concrete arches east of Brooks carried irrigation water…
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 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…
Long Before Star Trek Vulcan Was Already an Alberta Town
A CPR surveyor named the Vulcan siding after the Roman god of…
How A Medicine Hat Pottery Filled Kitchens Across Canada
Medicine Hat sat on an enormous natural gas field that made fuel…
