The Alberta Trained Artist Who Shaped How Wolverine Looks
John Byrne grew up in Edmonton and Calgary and studied at the…
The Oil Engineer Who Built Canada’s Largest Seedstock Cattle Operation
Stan Grad trained in petroleum technology at SAIT, built an oil and…
A Heart Attack And A Fishing Trip Built Calgary’s Heart Institute
Alvin Libin survived a heart attack in the early 1980s, spent twenty…
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…
No Roads, No Maps, and the Whole West Ahead of Him
David Thompson crossed Howse Pass in 1807 from Rocky Mountain House, surveying…
We Are Loving Alberta’s Hoodoos to Death
The capped stone towers of the Drumheller badlands are among the most…
