Tag: Alberta history

What The Five Layers Of Alberta’s Flag Actually Mean

The Alberta flag was adopted 1 June 1968 around a shield granted…

The 1884 Survey That Found Coal And A Dinosaur Skull

Joseph Burr Tyrrell mapped Red Deer River coal seams in August 1884…

The Century Old Dam That Still Waters Southern Alberta

The Bassano Dam on the Bow River was poured between 1910 and…

How Lee Williams Built An Empire On A Handshake

Lee Williams came west from New York for 20 cents an hour…

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…

Remembering The Alberta Premier Everyone Called King Ralph

Ralph Klein was Calgary's mayor from 1980 to 1989, became Alberta premier…