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Markinch Grain Elevator
By 1915, the town of Markinch had five grain elevators along their “elevator row.” Today, the only grain elevator remaining in Markinch is the United Grain Growers’ elevator originally built and owned by North Star Grain around 1911. This elevator operate…
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Niitsitapiisini Our Way of Life Exhibit
Niitsitapiisini: Our Way of Life was the result of a groundbreaking partnership between Glenbow Museum and the Blackfoot Confederacy. Eighteen Blackfoot elders worked with Glenbow staff to lead the design of the exhibition and infuse traditional knowledge…
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Canadian Grain Elevator Discovery Center
The Canadian Grain Elevator Discovery Centre is a set of three restored grain elevators located in Nanton, Alberta, Canada. The elevators were digitally captured by SAIT’s Geomatics Engineering Technology Program as well as by the Capture2Preserve team. P…
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Burmis Tree
Located along Highway 3 in the Crowsnest Pass region of southwestern Alberta, the Burmis Tree is a limber pine estimated to be between 600 and 750 years old at the time of its death in the late 1970’s. The high wind speeds experienced in this region of th…
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McDougall United Memorial Church
The McDougall Memorial United Church is a one-storey building located on the north bank of the Bow River, roughly two kilometres east of Morley. The church was constructed in 1875 in the Carpenter’s Gothic style and features pointed arch windows and front…
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Quon Sang Lung Laundry Shop
The Quon Sang Lung Laundry in Fort Macleod, Alberta was built in 1907. It was one of three or four similarly constructed buildings in the area of 25th St. and 3rd Ave that comprised Fort Macleod’s Chinatown. The link between businesses such as this to Chi…
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Perrenoud Homestead
The Perrenoud Homestead is located just north of the town of Cochrane, Alberta. Designated as a provincial heritage site in 1992, the heritage value of the Perrenoud Homestead lies within its link to the establishment of early ranching operations in Alber…
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Brooks Aqueduct
The Brooks Aqueduct is a 3.2km long reinforced concrete structure constructed between 1912 and 1914 by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. The hydrostatic catenary flume design was a unique piece of engineering at the time and is the largest constructed…
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Okotoks Erratic “Big Rock”
The Okotoks Erratic, also known as ‘Big Rock’, was dropped by the southward-moving glacier around 10 000-12 000 years ago. The Okotoks Erratic is believed to have originated in Jasper National Park and now currently sits 7-8km West of the Town of Okotoks….
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Miner’s Cabin
This wooden cabin is a single room building with a 23.32 m² footprint and was built around 1885. The cabin was original built in Banff, Alberta, but was given to Heritage Park by the Glenbow Foundation in 1964 and added to the park to illustrate the rusti…
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Caretaker’s Cabin “Walking Buffalo’s Cabin”
This cabin is on the site of the McDougall Historical Church and situated to the southwest of the church building. The date of its original construction is unknown. In 1957 it was moved to its current location from the Sarcee Nation Indian Agency on the T…
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Glenbow General Store and Post Office
The Glenbow General Store and Post Office operated in the town of Glenbow, Alberta from 1909 until 1918 serving the people of Glenbow and surrounding area. The building itself consisted of a relocated farmhouse and extension to meet the needs of a growing…
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The Springbank Hill Wind-Pump
Upon European arrival to North America, windmill technology was quickly adapted to pump well water in order to allow for the settlement of the arid prairie environments. The use of wind-pump technology became a main feature of ranches and farms in the Wes…
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North West Mounted Police Barracks, Fort MacLeod
The North West Mounted Police (NWMP) Barracks, were constructed in 1884 replacing the original fort on MacLeod Island in the Old Man River (Est. 1874) due to flooding [4]. The buildings left of the NWMP Barracks represent the history of the protection of…
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Jobber’s House
Calgary’s first European settlement was in the area now called Fish Creek Provincial Park. First homesteaded by John Glenn, his original farm underwent multiple exchanges and transformations before being sold in 1902 to Patrick Burns, one of the Big Four…
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Inglewood Bridge
The 9th Avenue SE Inglewood Bridge built in 1908-1909 served the City of Calgary for 110 years. The heritage value of this structure comes from its Parker Camelback design that was a popular style used throughout North America of which this bridge was rep…
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Turner Valley Gas Plant National and Provincial Historic Site
The Turner Valley Gas Plant is the most significant surviving resource associated with the development of the Turner Valley oilfield. The industrial face of Canada was changed forever when oil was struck in January of 1913 at the facilities’ Dingman no. 1…
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Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is an important historic site to the Blackfoot people, and is designated as a Provincial Historic Resource, National Historic Site, and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Southwestern Alberta. The significance of this site…
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Frank Slide and Turtle Mountain
At 4:10AM April 29th, 1903 the town of Frank was buried in what is one of largest landslides in Canadian history. Around 44 million cubic metres of of limestone dislodged from Turtle Mountain, covering the eastern edge of Frank, the railroad, and the coal…
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Alberta Buffalo Jump Site
“over the edge of which hunters used to drive the buffalo…and their bones still lie in places two and three feet deep” St. Maur, S. 1890. Buffalo jumps such as this are found scattered over the Plains of North America. Archaeological excavations took plac…
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EaPd-7 and EaPd-8 Stone Circle Sites
There is evidence of over 10,000 years of human occupation on the Alberta Plains [1]. While this is a vast expanse of time the nomadic lifestyles of the people of the plains left a minimal trace of their lifeways on the landscape. The physical remains can…
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Cochrane Ranche
Cochrane Ranche was established in 1881 and operated for 97 years with numerous owners [1]. Each owner developing the site to take advantage of the rich resources offered by the land [1]. This structure was constructed in the 1920s as part of the Brickyar…
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Stampede Elm
This elm tree in the Victoria Park area of Calgary is also known colloquially as the Stampede Elm. Although designated as a heritage resource, no one is sure how old the tree actually is although it has preexisted all of the Calgary Stampedes and is at le…
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Bazalgette Lancaster FM159
The Bazalgette Lancaster FM159 is one of the 7374 Avro Lancaster bomber planes produced by the Allied forces during WWII. This Lancaster was produced by Victory Aircraft Ltd in Malton, Ontario in 1945 and made it to England too late to serve in the war. I…
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Blum Residence
The Blum Residence is an Expressionist house with a main split level and full-height basement. The home is distinguished by its rambling massing with curved corners, flat thin-shell concrete roof and dramatic crescent-shaped full-height fieldstone support…
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Kootenai Brown Poplar Grove Cabin Site
This site was rediscovered in 2016 by Edwin Knox, retired Waterton Lakes National Park Warden/Cultural Resource Management [1]. Initially, the search was for the location of John George “Kootenai” Brown’s cabin that now resides in the Kootenai Brown Pione…
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Ogilvie Grain Elevator
The Ogilvie Flour Mills Co. Grain Elevator in Wrentham was constructed in 1925. It is a typical wood-cribbed grain elevator with a rare example of a balloon annex. With associated office, storage shed, and outbuildings this elevator is an example of a rap…
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Moose Hill Ranch Residence
The Moose Hill Ranch residence was a dovetailed log cabin constructed in 1885 by Edward Henry Osbourne Vaudin [1,2]. The cabin was continuously occupied until 1979 when its function switched to storage and finally abandoned in 2004 [2]. After the major fl…
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Raymond Stampede Grounds
The Town of Raymond was founded in 1901 by Jesse Knight, who named it after his first son Raymond. Ray Knight funded and promoted Canada’s first ever stampede in Raymond in 1902. This stampede was so successful that it inspired similar events in other are…
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The Hong Lee Laundry (Ogden Block)
Built in 1913, the Ogden Block has has been the home to many in its 110 year history. For the first few years of the buildings existence the Hong Lee Laundry operated out of the storefront while also serving as a boarding house for Chinese immigrants [5]….
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Kootenai Brown Cabin
Relocated to Pincher Creek’s Kootenai Brown Pioneer Village from Waterton Lakes National Park in 1971, this cabin was John George “Kootenai” Brown’s second homestead and features some of his original furnishings. Brown was a local frontiersman who settled…
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Explore – Edelweiss Swiss Village
Edelweiss Swiss Village is a special sub archive within the Alberta Digital Heritage Archive. Although located in Golden BC, the village has strong ties to the origins of Western Canada’s Mountaineering history in the Bow Valley region of Alberta.
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Explore – Parks Canada
This special sub-archive contains digital captures of heritage sites from some of the most beautiful National Parks in Western Canada.
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