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 […]
Four years ago, Stormm Ravenda was working at an outdoor retail store in Niagara Falls. He was bored working retail and was looking for deeper, more meaningful human interaction. One day a gentleman entered the […]
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 […]
I can still distinctly remember the first time I saw the sport of kiteboarding. It was all the way back in 2005 and I was vacationing in the Dominican Republic. We were hanging out on […]
A couple of weeks ago I published a collection of historical photos depicting rivers from across Alberta. When I started piecing together that collection I realized there were more photos of rivers than I had […]
Here in landlocked Alberta we have no shortage of scenic waterways. Our unique geography, being located immediately east of the continental divide, allows our rivers to drain into four different bodies of water. Our northern […]
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