The Alberta Oil Well That Came In On Its Last Chance
Imperial Oil was close to giving up on western Canada when a…
The $513 Lancaster Bomber Three Nanton Men Saved From Scrap
A hangar on Highway 2 at Nanton holds Avro Lancaster FM159, one…
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…
The Fort Whoop-Up Archaeological Site and What the Ground Still Holds
The 1870 rebuild of Fort Whoop-Up near Lethbridge carries its own heritage…
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…
How a Dying Prairie Hamlet Became Alberta’s Own Hollywood
Rowley grew along the Alberta Midland Railway from 1911 to about 500…
The Edmonton Bridge That Carried Trains On Its Roof
Edmonton's High Level Bridge opened in 1913 carrying trains on top, streetcars…
The Waterton Hotel The Wind Pushed Off Its Foundation Twice
The Prince of Wales Hotel stands alone on a bare knoll above…
