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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C3M_defining-the-boundry-of-the-great-divide_Louisville-AB.html
Prior to 1913 the Alberta-British Columbia boundary was defined by the divide or watershed of the Rocky Mountains. The discovery of valuable coal deposits and the availability of marketable timber and the incursion of railroads and roads required …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C3L_parting-of-the-waters_Louisville-AB.html
How many creeks do you know of that split, with each fork reaching a separate ocean, 4500 km apart.Here, Divide Creek forks on the boundary between Pacific and Atlantic watersheds, commonly called the Great Divide.Water in the left fork will flow …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C3K_canadian-pacific-railway-stone-monument_Louisville-AB.html
Erected in honor of Sir James Hector K. C. M. C. Geologist and explorer to the Palliser Expedition of 1857 - 1860 by his friends in Canada, the United States & England. One of the earliest scientists to explore the Canadian Rocky Mountains. He dis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5L8_banff-park-museum_Banff-AB.html
Opened in 1895, the Banff Park Museum was moved into this building in 1903. Its cross-log motif exemplifies an architectural style common in the town at the time. Norman Bethune Sanson, the museum's curator from 1896 to 1932, energetically develop…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5L0_castle-mountain-internment-camp_Queenstown-AB.html
During Canada's first national internment operations in World War One, thousands of immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the majority of Ukrainian origin, some citizens of Canada, were imprisoned as "enemy aliens". Internment operations la…
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