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Vintage Photos of Trading Posts from Across Alberta

March 23, 2023 Tyler Dixon

Canada’s western frontier was developed on the back of the fur trade. As an extremely competitive business, the fur trade thrived for nearly 250 years as hunters and trappers attempted to satisfy Europe’s demand for […]

Historical Photographs of Banff’s Cave and Basin

May 23, 2019 Tyler Dixon

Banff’s Cave and Basin is the birthplace of Canada’s national park system. In 1883 three railway workers, brothers William and Tom McCardell and their partner Frank McCabe, “discovered” the cave and basin on the lower […]