FEATURE | Historic Alberta

Dino-loving kids can prospect for fossils and work in a simulated quarry in “Jr. Dig Experience”, a program just for pre-teens at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller. The Museum’s new exhibit “Alberta’s Last Sea Dragon, Solving an Ancient Puzzle”, gets you up close to a 12-metre sea dragon.

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Lougheed House

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Drumheller, Alberta • 403-823-7707

Since it was built in 1891, Calgary’s Lougheed House has been a state home, housekeeping and nursing school, Canadian Women’s Army Corps barracks and a Second World War blood donor clinic. Now the sandstone mansion houses historical displays, an elegant restaurant and historic themed flower and vegetable gardens.

Make a special stop at the colourful butterfly-themed flower beds.

707 – 13 Avenue, SW, Calgary • 403-244-6333

Stephansson HOUSE

This easy-to-use pass provides unlimited access to all 18 Alberta Government historic sites, museums and interpretive centres for one year from the date of purchase. Available at all the major provincial sites, Alberta Motor Association’s offices throughout the province and Edmonton Visitor Information Centres.

Family $75 • Adult $30 • Senior $25 • Youth $15 • Under 7 free

On your next daytrip, tour Stephansson House north of Markerville, the historic early 20th century homestead of the famous Icelandic pioneer poet Stephan G. Stephansson.. Costumed interpreters at the house provide a tour with hands-on demonstrations which may include poetry and baking. Stop at the Historic Markerville Creamery 7km south in Markerville to learn the intricacies of butter making.

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Where else but southern Alberta can you dig for dinosaurs, ride in a horse-drawn carriage and explore a world-famous rockslide all in one summer?

Dive into Alberta’s vibrant history and let the excitement of our past carry you away!

Brooks Aqueduct

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30 minutes southwest of Red Deer, off Hwy 592 & 781 • 403-728-3929

As you stand under the huge Brooks Aqueduct, you can see why it was the largest structure of its kind when it was built 100 years ago.

Take a tour to learn how this enormous aqueduct channelled water to parched prairie farmland as part of south eastern Alberta’s vital irrigation network. Stop for a picnic at this Nation and Provincial Historic site.

8 km southeast of Brooks, off Trans-Canada Highway 1 • 403-362-4451

Treat the horse admirers in your family to a carriage ride around Cardston’s Remington Carriage Museum and introduce them to the museum’s herd of Clydesdales and Quarter horses. Little ones can also try a new mini-chuckwagon simulator. Using actual footage from the championships held at the museum, children can experience the thrill of driving a chuckwagon around the track.

623 Main Street Cardston • 403-653-5139

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in Fort Macleod is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the world’s oldest, largest and best preserved buffalo jumps. Learn why it was used as a hunting ground for 5,500 years and the important role of the bison for the Aboriginal people who hunted here. Hike 2 km of interpretive trails, watch drumming and dancing demonstrations every Wednesday in July and August.

90 minutes from Calgary, near Fort Macleod on Sec. Hwy #785 • 403-553-2731

In the early morning of April 29, 1903, a massive rockslide hurled down from Turtle Mountain and buried a portion of the sleeping mining town of Frank. The thunderous roar of Canada’s deadliest rock slide was heard 200 km away. Visit the Frank Slide Interpretive Centre to explore what Frank and the Crowsnest Pass were like before, during and after the slide. Every afternoon you can join our expert guides on a 1.5 km hike through the rubble. Breathe in the crisp mountain air while learning the incredible stories of the people of the town of Frank, at the moment of the slide and in its harrowing aftermath.

Frank Slide Interpretive Centre

Hwy 3, Municipality of Crowsnest Pass • 403-562-7388

ExperienceAlbertasHistory.com Brooks Aqueduct • Father Lacombe Chapel • Frank Slide Interpretive Centre • Fort George & Buckingham House Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump • Historic Dunvegan • Leitch Collieries • Lougheed House Oil Sands Discovery Centre • Provincial Archives of Alberta • Remington Carriage Museum Reynolds-Alberta Museum • Royal Alberta Museum • Royal Tyrrell Museum • Rutherford House Check out other cultural events throughout the province on the Alberta Stephansson House • Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village • Victoria Settlement

Culture Calendar or submit your own events at culture.alberta.ca/events

Remington Carriage Museum

And with the Experience Alberta’s History Pass, the whole family can visit all of Alberta’s historic sites all year for just $75

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You have a busy summer ahead – northern Alberta’s historic sites and museums are ready for you to come and play. learn about bugs, machines, fur-traders & more!

With the Experience Alberta’s History Pass, the whole family can visit all 18 of Alberta’s historic sites all year for just $75 ExperienceAlbertasHistory.com

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Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village

Tour the archaeological site and interpretive centre at Elk Point’s Fort George and Buckingham House, where two competing fur trading posts once stood. A furclad voyageur will teach you traditional ways to make a fire, where you’ll gather to hear his adventures. By the end of your day, you’ll know all about how settlers and Aboriginal people lived and worked together here.

Know someone who loves machines? Step on the gas and visit the Reynolds-Alberta Museum in Wetaskiwin. Vintage cars, motorcycles, planes, tractors – if you’ve ridden it or dreamed of riding it, they have one here. Tour a 1911 factory and 1920s grain elevator, watch a movie in the 1950s drivein and check out gigantic early tractors, called Dinosaurs of the Field.

13 km southeast of Elk Point • 780-724-2611

Kids who love to run will love the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, east of Edmonton. This award-winning open-air museum has over 30 restored buildings, including a sod house, one-room school, blacksmith shop and three amazing churches. Still have energy to burn? Play some horseshoes, make crafts or take in a historical demonstration.

2 km west of Wetaskiwin on Hwy 13 • 780-361-1351

Oil Sands Discovery Centre

25 min. east of Edmonton on Hwy 16 • 780-662-3640

Jump as high as you can and you still won’t reach the top of the 150-tonne heavy hauler at the Oil Sands Discovery Centre in Fort McMurray. Big as it is, it pales beside Cyrus, the 850-tonne bucketwheel excavator in the industrial artifact garden outside! While you spend the day playing, you’ll learn a tonne about one of Alberta’s most significant industries.

The past echoes gently at Victoria Settlement, celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. Discover this enchanting site near Smoky Lake, on the banks of the North Saskatchewan River.

Learn the simple joys of old-fashioned games and join a costumed guide for a tour of the church and 1864 clerk’s quarters.

515 MacKenzie Blvd, Fort McMurray, AB • 780-743-7167

Rutherford House

Located off Hwy 855, near Smoky Lake • 780-656-2333

Historic Dunvegan

Historic Dunvegan, just south of Fairview, was a 19th century fur-trade post and mission. Join your costumed guide to explore the rectory, exquisitely painted church and Factor’s family home, and trace the footsteps of the trappers, traders, missionaries and Aboriginal people who lived here.

26 km south of Fairview • 780-835-7150

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Fort George and Buckingham House

Bring your family to Rutherford House in Edmonton. Tour the historical gardens and elegant home of Alberta’s first premier then visit the Arbour Restaurant for an oh-so-refined high tea with scones and raspberry butter.

Reservations are recommended, call 780-422-2697.

Victoria Settlement

St. Albert’s Father Lacombe Chapel, once a bustling gathering place for Aboriginal people and French-speaking Oblate priests, Grey Nuns and Métis, is Alberta’s oldest building. Join your costumed guide for a tour of the building, grounds and neighbouring cemetery.

Mission Hill, St. Vital Avenue, St. Albert • 780-459-7663

You’ll want a whole day to explore Edmonton’s Royal Alberta Museum. Sniff out the facts on man’s best buddy. This family-friendly feature exhibition focuses on the hunters, herders, guards and companions in our lives and in our world.

Developed by the Wonderworks Exhibits Company, the exhibition boasts four themed sections including multi-media displays, artifacts, photo murals, and dioramas. There are interactive, hands-on components such as a “howling area” where visitors can guess what dogs are saying, test their nose against a dog’s great sense of smell, and climb into an avalanche scene to see what it’s like to be saved by a search-and-rescue dog. Come! Get the canine facts!

12845 – 102 Avenue, Edmonton 780-453-9100

11153 Saskatchewan Drive (U of A campus), Edmonton • 780-427-3995

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Father Lacombe Chapel