Alberta
A highlight of our Canadian Badlands Alberta trip in 2007 was the annual Oyen Bullarama. We arrived in the late afternoon in Oyen, a town of 1200 near the Saskatchewan border. The parking lot was already a sea of pickup trucks. A bullarama is professional bullriding and “bloodless bullfighting”- the latter is basically a guy [...]
Medicine Hat Clay Industries National Historic District and Medalta Potteries are expanding their facilities and activities.
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A link to Bob Fisher’s extensive Travelosophy piece on the Siksika Nation and the Blackfoot Crossing Historical Park Interpretive Centre
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Due to the lack of light pollution and the thin cloud cover in this area of southeastern Alberta, night sky viewing here is a whole different world compared to the big city.
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This is the incredible view from the new one-room honeymoon cabin on the Alberta Western Uplands ranch, approximately two hours north of Medicine Hat, Alberta in western Canada. This ranch is also home to a refurbished 1903 homesteader’s cabin that sleeps twelve comfortably. Oliver North, who became famous during the Reagan years, stayed here once. In summer, the [...]
Glenn and I have been working with the Canadian Badlands for the past two years. On our first product tour of the area in July, 2007, we had the pleasure of touring the Brooks-Bassano area with Bob Cromwell and D’Arcy Pharmacy, two locals involved with tourism in the region. This part of the Canadian Badlands [...]
Bob Cromwell is a great storyteller who lives in Brooks, Alberta, in the Canadian Badlands, about an hour and a half east of Calgary. He’s just resigned his post as the Newell County tourism director but before moving on, he treated Glenn and I to another superb tour of his Badlands area, only this time, [...]
Rainbow in the big Alberta sky No traffic, big skies: For downtown Torontonians, we learned we could actually enjoy driving again. We crisscrossed The Canadian Badlands in southeastern Alberta from Calgary to the Saskatchewan border south through Medicine Hat and Cypress Hills to the Montana border, west to the border town of Milk River and [...]
One of the highlights of our visit to the Canadian Badlands (http://canadianbadlands.com) in southeastern Alberta was touring the Atlas Coal Mine National Historic Site.(http://www.atlascoalmine.ab.ca) It’s managed by an amazing storyteller. In the space of an hour or so, she brought to life a wild and woolley era of Canadian history. One hundred and thirty nine coal mines [...]
