Table of Contents
(listed from northwest to southeast)

West Edmonton Mall (4)

Downtown Edmonton (6)

Fort Edmonton Park (9)

Elk Island National Park (2)

Central Alberta (6)

Alberta Prairie Railway (4)

Royal Tyrrell Museum (5)

Drumheller Valley (6)

South Central Alberta (4)

Calgary (3)

Downtown Calgary (6)

Calgary's Chinatown (3)

Bar U Ranch (8)

East of Crowsnest Pass (5)

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump (5)

Lethbridge (9)

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Complete Listing (see also the Fullscreen versions)
listed from northwest to southeast

West Edmonton Mall

Submarines and Columbus' Santa Maria in the world's largest shopping mall.

Water slides and a huge pool with surf, all indoors at the mall.

An ice hockey rink, of course, this is Canada.

A faux-European street, with miniature golf underneath.

Downtown Edmonton

Looking out from downtown Edmonton over the North Saskatchewan River.

Jasper Avenue at 100th Street, downtown Edmonton.

Skyscrapers surround McBain Camera on 101st Street.

Beaver Hills House Park, Jasper Avenue at 105th Street.

"Summer in the City" at Churchill Square, heart of Edmonton.

The Chinatown Gate across 102nd Avenue at 97th Street.

Fort Edmonton Park

A teepee outside the recreated Fort Edmonton.

Inside the thoroughly authentic recreation of Fort Edmonton.

Upstairs in the Rowand House at Fort Edmonton.

Between Fort Edmonton and the windmill.

A Dominion Land Office on the 1885 street at Fort Edmonton park.

The Mellon farm, a typical family farm of the 1920's.

A recreation of the Selkirk Hotel that once stood in the center of Edmonton.

Streetcars run along 1905 Street at Fort Edmonton Park.

The Motodrome presents 1920's vintage automobiles.

Elk Island National Park

Elk Island in Astotin Lake, Elk Island National Park.

A field of canola (rapeseed) in bloom, near Elk Island park.

Central Alberta

Big sky over a flat agricultural landscape, west of Camrose.

Afternoon thunderstorms on the prairie.

Buffalo Lake as the thunderstorm passes, near Stettler.

Prairie potholes, evidence of continental glaciation.

Wheat and canola fields cover vast areas in central Alberta.

Knob and kettle terrain, formed on glacial outwash.

The Alberta Prairie Railway

The Alberta Prairie Railway historic rolling stock collection in Stettler.

Engine No. 6060, an oil burning 1944 Canadian-made "mountain type".

Engine No. 41, a 1920 Baldwin.

Inside the cab of engine number 41, still hot 24 hours after last used.

Royal Tyrrell Museum

The Royal Tyrrell Museum, one of the world's leading dinosaur collections, near Drumheller.

Inside the Tyrrell Museum, view one.

Inside the Tyrrell Museum, view two.

Inside the Tyrrell Museum, view three.

Inside the Tyrrell Museum, view four.

Drumheller Valley

The "world's largest dinosaur" at the info centre in Drumheller.

Next to the tipple conveyor belt at the historic Atlas Coal Mine.

Under the wooden tipple at the Atlas Coal Mine in East Coulee..

Coal mining equipment at the Atlas Coal Mine.

An historic timber railway bridge over the Red Deer River at East Coulee.

Hoodoos in the Drumheller Valley.

South Central Alberta

The Finnegan ferry on the Red Deer River, east of Drumheller.

Natural shortgrass prairie south of the Red Deer River.

A prairie pothole, an important resource for migratory birds.

Wheat to the horizon, Wheatland County.

Calgary

Recreated Fort Calgary at the junction of the Bow and Elbow Rivers.

The impressive skyline of Calgary seen from Princes Island.

Centre Street Bridge over the Bow River.

Downtown Calgary

James Short Park, with the 1905 cupola from the old Central School.

Stephen Avenue is pedestrian-only and lined with elegant older buildings.

Stephen Avenue at Centre Street, highrises all around.

The Eaton Mall runs through the middle of a city block.

Calgary is the oil capital of Canada.

Eau Claire Market on the edge of downtown.

Calgary's Chinatown

Calgary has one of the largest and most interesting Chinatowns in Canada.

Sien Lok Park between Chinatown and the river.

Inside the Calgary Chinese Cultural Centre.

Bar U Ranch National Historic Site of Canada

Highway 22, the Cowboy Trail, at Bar U Ranch.

Statue "Attacked by Wolves" at Bar U Ranch National Historic Site.

Horse and wagon rides at Bar U Ranch.

Next to the Bar U Ranch cookhouse.

Outside the post office at the Bar U Ranch National Historic Site.

Inside the Bar U Ranch post office.

Percherons in the stable at Bar U Ranch.

On the bridge over Pekisko Creek, Bar U Ranch National Historic Site.

East of the Crowsnest Pass

Canada's first large windplant, on Cowley Ridge east of Crowsnest Pass.

On the Chapel Rock Road.

Chapel Rock Road northeast of the Crowsnest Pass.

Hayfields and grasslands south of Pincher Creek.

Highway 6 south of Pincher Creek.

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

Buffalo once again graze near the historic buffalo jump.

Indians stampeded buffalo over this cliff at the edge of the Porcupine Hills.

A huge pile of bones forms the hill at the base of the buffalo jump.

The Indians camped on the flats below the jump.

The excellent Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Interpretive Center is built into the cliff, essentially underground.

Lethbridge

The Canadian Pacific High Level Bridge over the coulee is 314 feet high and almost a mile long.

The Blackfeet Medicine Stone is a glacial erratic boulder.

Fort Whoop-Up was an American trading post selling whiskey to the Blackfeet and Cree.

An authentically restored frontier post kitchen.

The barracks room at Fort Whoop-Up.

The Northwest Mounted Police (Mounties) were founded to get Fort Whoop Up under control, and lived in this room.

The livery room with blacksmith and cooperage equipment.

The trade room, with guns and liquor prominent among the trade goods.

Six grain elevators line the highway through the tiny town of Milk River, near the U.S. border.

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