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John Ware, Alberta’s most famous cowboy, will be commemorated on a new Canadian stamp. The stamp will be issued by Canada Post on February 1, 2012, to honour Black History Month (February). John Ware defied stereotypes and rose to folk hero status in Alberta. His remarkable story begins in South Carolina where he was born into [...] We were dusty, hot and thirsty when we turned off the TransCanada highway and began the climb into Cypress Hills, a green oasis on a parched, summer prairie landscape. Canada’s only interprovincial park is a year-round destination that straddles the Alberta- Saskatchewan border, one hour east of Medicine Hat. Sunset at Cypress Hills Interprovincial [...] 
Squirt the skunk, mascot of Beiseker, Alberta Town mascots, interesting advertising and bizarre geographic oddities are a part of every Canadian Badlands roadtrip. On our last trip in southeastern Alberta we came across Drumheller’s Dinosaur (again), the Big Woman and Cornstalk in Taber, Gleichen’s Buffalo, Bow Island’s giant Bean Pot, Pinto the Bean, [...] There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The Canadian Badlands are dotted with “Mascots”. Perhaps the most well known is the 86-foot T-rex in Drumheller, but if you snoop around a bit, you”ll find quirky charactors and giant, over-sized objects of all kinds in the most unlikely places. Not far east of Red Deer, towards Rochon Sands Provincial Park, we found [...] Just south of Siksika Nation and not far from the Hamlet of Mossleigh in Vulcan County we stumbled upon the Village of Arrowwood. It’s a very pleasant place with a population of about 225. Our curiosity was piqued by a large wooden tube resting at the side of the road. It having obviously been [...] One minute we’re following our friend’s RV. The next minute she and the RV have disappeared. It’s a regular occurrence in the Canadian Badlands. Drive open prairie and suddenly, a river valley that you didn’t see coming, swallows you up. We were on our first road trip to the southeastern Alberta tourism region when we [...] The Canadian Badlands of southeastern Alberta is sometimes called “The world’s largest graveyard with the biggest bones”. That’s because this massive tourism region is known for its fossil finds at Dinosaur Park and at the Royal Tyrrell, the largest museum in the world devoted to palaeontology. But did you know the Canadian Badlands is [...] I love contemporary ceramics and dabbling in clay but before visiting Medicine Hat in the Canadian Badlands of southeastern Alberta, I had no idea that this city once produced three quarters of all the pottery made in Canada. Behind the scenes at Medicine Hat’s Medalta Potteries and Historic Clay District An abundance of [...] Alberta Arts Days 2011 poster Among the pumpjacks and fields of canola, beside the farms and ranches and along the lonely roads through the badest of the badlands, the agri-industrial lifestyle of southeastern Alberta is shot through with a creative spirit that can’t be missed. You see it everywhere – from the Royal [...] |
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