Fifty years ago, on June 10, 1975, Fish Creek Provincial Park officially opened its gates – marking Peter Lougheed’s first bold act to preserve wild spaces just beyond Calgary’s burgeoning edge. But the valley’s story stretches back […]
Fish Creek Provincial Park is quietly nestled between McKenzie Towne and Midnapore, a perfectly preserved piece of land boasting lush forests, the Bow River, and an abundance of Alberta’s wildlife. A second and often overlooked […]
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 […]
The Fish Creek Valley is rich in history. The valley was perfectly suited for pre-contact First Nation people and archaeological evidence shows they used the area for over 8,000 years. By 1873, the first settlers […]
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