The Provincial Archives of Alberta powered by the Heritage Resources Management Information System offers a funky 1970s flashback time capsule to the opening of Fish Creek Provincial Park, and the Glenbow Museum archives gives a […]
Recently, we published a collection of historical photos from the Tsuut’ina Nation. Today we’re back with a follow-up post, but this time we’re featuring the Stoney Nakoda Nation. According to oral tradition, the ancestors of […]
Last year at about this time we posted the original collection of vintage Halloween photos. Well we’re back with Part 2, just in time for Hallows Eve this year. Enjoy this flash from the past […]
Built to celebrate Canada’s Centennial and opened a year later in 1968, originally called the Husky Tower, and still called that by air traffic controllers and perhaps stubborn relatives who refuse to keep up with […]
If you’re anything like me, when you saw the recent announcement about Alberta Environment and Parks (AEP) celebrating their 50th Anniversary, you were stumped because hadn’t they just celebrated their 85th Anniversary back in 2017? […]
The Hudson’s Bay Company and the North West Company, competing fur-trade entities, both established trading posts in 1799 near the confluence of the North Saskatchewan and Clearwater Rivers, in what became known as Rocky Mountain […]
The modern-day Tsuutʼina Nation borders the southwest limits of the city of Calgary, but historically their territory was much larger. After Chief Bull Head signed Treaty 7 in 1877, the Tsuut’ina people were moved to […]
With bison numbers rapidly dwindling on North America’s Great Plains, the Canadian Government opted to create preserves where, it was hoped, extinction of the species could be prevented. One of these preserves, created in 1907, […]
The irony isn’t lost on me that as I write this post I am sitting on a patio enjoying a frosty pint of craft beer. Nevertheless, prohibition has always intrigued me. Maybe it’s the rum […]
In 1885, during construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), surveyor A.S. Farwell laid out the main street of a town, which was also named after him. When the CPR eventually reached the community of […]
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