Ghost Town Archives - Calgary Guardian https://calgaryguardian.com/tag/ghost-town/ Arts, Culture and Lifestyle from Calgary Mon, 22 Apr 2024 22:20:32 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://calgaryguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/cropped-CalgaryGuardian_Logo_FaviconApp-32x32.jpg Ghost Town Archives - Calgary Guardian https://calgaryguardian.com/tag/ghost-town/ 32 32 Historic Photos of Mountain Park, Alberta https://calgaryguardian.com/historic-photos-mountain-park-alberta/ Thu, 02 May 2024 07:44:02 +0000 https://calgaryguardian.com/?p=21877 The town of Mountain Park was founded in 1911 with the creation of the Mountain Park Coal Company. The town was built at an elevation of 1890 metres (6200 feet), making it the highest permanently [...]

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]]> Calgary’s Most Haunted Places https://calgaryguardian.com/calgarys-most-haunted-places/ Thu, 29 Oct 2020 09:00:02 +0000 https://calgaryguardian.com/?p=9639 Are you looking for a fright this Halloween? You won’t have to look far, as Calgary is home to several haunted places scattered across the city. Here’s a deeper look at 15 of the most [...]

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]]> Historic Photos From Silver City https://calgaryguardian.com/historic-photos-silver-city/ Thu, 01 Oct 2020 09:00:26 +0000 https://calgaryguardian.com/?p=9536 Anyone who has driven west from Banff towards Lake Louise has gazed in awe at the towering cliffs of Castle Mountain. But most don’t realize that the same mountain was the backdrop to a scandalous [...]

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]]> Historic Photos from the Town of Bankhead https://calgaryguardian.com/historic-photos-bankhead/ Thu, 04 Jul 2019 08:30:45 +0000 https://calgaryguardian.com/?p=5053 Between 1903 and 1922 Bankhead was a bustling coal-mining town located on the lower slopes of Cascade Mountain in modern-day Banff National Park. The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) established the coal mine and the town [...]

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]]> How The West Was Once https://calgaryguardian.com/how-the-west-was-once/ Fri, 30 Jun 2017 13:46:42 +0000 https://calgaryguardian.com/?p=2003 Take a step back in time and discover some of Alberta’s earliest frontiersmen at Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park. The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), in their ambitious quest to span the continent, continued their westward push [...]

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]]> All Hallows’ Eve https://calgaryguardian.com/all-hallows-eve/ Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:06:02 +0000 https://calgaryguardian.com/?p=132 Halloween is just around the corner and that means it’s time for costumes, tricks and treats, goblins, ghouls, and ghosts. There will be countless Halloween-themed events, costume parties, and frightening occurrences taking place throughout the [...]

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