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Virtual Guidebook to the
Prairies of Alberta
Canada
Fullscreen Panoramas
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Table of Contents - Fullscreens
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listed from northwest to southeast
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West Edmonton Mall (4)
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Downtown Edmonton (6)
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Fort Edmonton Park (9)
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Elk Island National Park (2)
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Central Alberta (6)
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Alberta Prairie Railway (4)
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Royal Tyrrell Museum (5)
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Drumheller Valley (6)
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South Central Alberta (4)
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Calgary (3)
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Downtown Calgary (6)
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Calgary's Chinatown (3)
- Bar U Ranch (8)
- East of Crowsnest Pass (5)
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump (5)
- Lethbridge (9)
- Numbers in parentheses indicate how many panoramas are available of each locality.
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- Complete Listing of Fullscreen Panoramas
listed from northwest to southeast
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- West Edmonton Mall
- Submarines and Columbus' Santa Maria in the world's largest shopping mall. (7-19-03)
- Water slides and a huge pool with surf, all indoors at the mall. (7-19-03)
- An ice hockey rink, of course, this is Canada. (7-19-03)
- A faux-European street, with miniature golf underneath. (7-19-03)
- Downtown Edmonton
- Looking out from downtown Edmonton over the North Saskatchewan River. (7-20-03)
- Jasper Avenue at 100th Street, downtown Edmonton. (7-20-03)
- Skyscrapers surround McBain Camera on 101st Street. (7-20-03)
- Beaver Hills House Park, Jasper Avenue at 105th Street. (7-20-03)
- "Summer in the City" at Churchill Square, heart of Edmonton. (7-20-03)
- The Chinatown Gate across 102nd Avenue at 97th Street. (7-20-03)
- Fort Edmonton Park
- A teepee outside the recreated Fort Edmonton. (7-19-03)
- Inside the thoroughly authentic recreation of Fort Edmonton. (7-19-03)
- Upstairs in the Rowand House at Fort Edmonton. (7-19-03)
- Between Fort Edmonton and the windmill. (7-19-03)
- A Dominion Land Office on the 1885 street at Fort Edmonton Park. (7-19-03)
- The Mellon farm, a typical family farm of the 1920's. (7-19-03)
- A recreation of the Selkirk Hotel that once stood in the center of Edmonton. (7-19-03)
- Streetcars run along 1905 Street at Fort Edmonton Park. (7-19-03)
- The Motodrome presents 1920's vintage automobiles. (7-19-03)
- Elk Island National Park
- Elk Island in Astotin Lake, Elk Island National Park. (7-20-03)
- A field of canola (rapeseed) in bloom, near Elk Island park. (7-20-03)
- Central Alberta
- Big sky over a flat agricultural landscape, west of Camrose. (7-20-03)
- Afternoon thunderstorms on the prairie. (7-20-03)
- Buffalo Lake as the thunderstorm passes, near Stettler. (7-20-03)
- Prairie potholes, evidence of continental glaciation. (7-21-03)
- Wheat and canola fields cover vast areas in central Alberta. (7-21-03)
- Knob and kettle terrain, formed on glacial outwash. (7-21-03)
- The Alberta Prairie Railway
- The Alberta Prairie Railway historic rolling stock collection in Stettler. (7-21-03)
- Engine No. 6060, an oil burning 1944 Canadian-made "mountain type". (7-21-03)
- Engine No. 41, a 1920 Baldwin. (7-21-03)
- Inside the cab of engine number 41, still hot 24 hours after last used. (7-21-03)
- Royal Tyrrell Museum
- The Royal Tyrrell Museum, one of the world's leading dinosaur collections, near Drumheller. (7-21-03)
- Inside the Tyrrell Museum, view one. (7-21-03)
- Inside the Tyrrell Museum, view two. (7-21-03)
- Inside the Tyrrell Museum, view three. (7-21-03)
- Inside the Tyrrell Museum, view four. (7-21-03)
- Drumheller Valley
- The "world's largest dinosaur" at the info centre in Drumheller. (7-21-03)
- Next to the tipple conveyor belt at the historic Atlas Coal Mine. (7-21-03)
- Under the wooden tipple at the Atlas Coal Mine in East Coulee. (7-21-03)
- Coal mining equipment at the Atlas Coal Mine. (7-21-03)
- An historic timber railway bridge over the Red Deer River at East Coulee. (7-21-03)
- Hoodoos in the Drumheller Valley. (7-21-03)
- South Central Alberta
- The Finnegan ferry on the Red Deer River, east of Drumheller. (7-21-03)
- Natural shortgrass prairie south of the Red Deer River. (7-21-03)
- A prairie pothole, an important resource for migratory birds. (7-21-03)
- Wheat to the horizon, Wheatland County. (7-21-03)
- Calgary
- Recreated Fort Calgary at the junction of the Bow and Elbow Rivers. (7-22-03)
- The impressive skyline of Calgary seen from Princes Island. (7-22-03)
- Centre Street Bridge over the Bow River. (7-22-03)
- Downtown Calgary
- James Short Park, with the 1905 cupola from the old Central School. (7-22-03)
- Stephen Avenue is pedestrian-only and lined with elegant older buildings. (7-22-03)
- Stephen Avenue at Centre Street, highrises all around. (7-22-03)
- The Eaton Mall runs through the middle of a city block. (7-22-03)
- Calgary is the oil capital of Canada. (7-22-03)
- Eau Claire Market on the edge of downtown. (7-22-03)
- Calgary's Chinatown
- Calgary has one of the largest and most interesting Chinatowns in Canada. (7-22-03)
- Sien Lok Park between Chinatown and the river. (7-22-03)
- Inside the Calgary Chinese Cultural Centre. (7-22-03)
- Bar U Ranch National Historic Site of Canada
- Highway 22, the Cowboy Trail, at Bar U Ranch. (8-2-05)
- Statue "Attacked by Wolves" at Bar U Ranch National Historic Site. (8-2-05)
- Horse and wagon rides at Bar U Ranch. (8-2-05)
- Next to the Bar U Ranch cookhouse. (8-2-05)
- Outside the post office at the Bar U Ranch National Historic Site. (8-2-05)
- Inside the Bar U Ranch post office. (8-2-05)
- Percherons in the stable at Bar U Ranch. (8-2-05)
- On the bridge over Pekisko Creek, Bar U Ranch National Historic Site. (8-2-05)
- East of the Crowsnest Pass
- Canada's first large windplant, on Cowley Ridge east of Crowsnest Pass. (7-25-03)
- On the Chapel Rock Road. (8-2-05)
- Chapel Rock Road northeast of the Crowsnest Pass. (8-2-05)
- Hayfields and grasslands south of Pincher Creek. (8-1-05)
- Highway 6 south of Pincher Creek. (8-1-05)
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
- Buffalo once again graze near the historic buffalo jump. (7-25-03)
- Indians stampeded buffalo over this cliff at the edge of the Porcupine Hills. (7-25-03)
- A huge pile of bones forms the hill at the base of the buffalo jump. (7-25-03)
- The Indians camped on the flats below the jump. (7-25-03)
- The excellent Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Interpretive Center is built into the cliff, essentially underground. (7-25-03)
- Lethbridge
- The Canadian Pacific High Level Bridge over the coulee is 314 feet high and almost a mile long. (7-25-03)
- The Blackfeet Medicine Stone is a glacial erratic boulder. (7-25-03)
- Fort Whoop-Up was an American trading post selling whiskey to the Blackfeet and Cree. (7-25-03)
- An authentically restored frontier post kitchen. (7-25-03)
- The barracks room at Fort Whoop-Up. (7-25-03)
- The Northwest Mounted Police (Mounties) were founded to get Fort Whoop Up under control, and lived in this room. (7-25-03)
- The livery room with blacksmith and cooperage equipment. (7-25-03)
- The trade room, with guns and liquor prominent among the trade goods. (7-25-03)
- Six grain elevators line the highway through the tiny town of Milk River, near the U.S. border. (7-25-03)
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