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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5LP_collins-overland-international-telegraph_Quesnel-BC.html
Promoted by Perry Collins, the U.S. Commercial Agent in Russia, and dependent on the Western Union Telegraph Company's money, men and technology for its execution, this early telegraph line roused the enthusiasm of the white residents of British C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5L9_athabasca-landing_Athabasca-AB.html
This was once the "jumping off point" for the vast northland. Here in 1887 the first steamboat "Athabasca" was built to ply the river between Mirror Landing and Grand Rapids.
Steamboats superceded the canoe, York boat, and scow, and were replac…
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5KZ_turner-valley-gas-plant_Turner-Valley-AB.html
This plant, which was critical to the development of the Turner Valley oil field, is the earliest gas processing facility built in Canada and the only survivor of its type. The present complex was begun in 1921 after a fire destroyed the original …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5KP_methye-portage_Fort-McMurray-AB.html
The earliest trade route between eastward and northward flowing waters followed the Clearwater River and the Methye Portage.
Discovered by Peter Pond in 1778 and used continuously for more than a century for more than a century by fur-traders a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5KO_the-pyrogy-pyrohy_Glendon-AB.html
A European food that was brought to Western Canada in the early 19th century by the working and poor people. It originated as a boiled dumpling, and later people added whatever they desired inside, and it became a pyrogy - pyrohy, sometimes called…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5DM_rosenort-mennonite-church_Laird-SK.html
Mennonite settlers who arrived in this area in 1892 held church services in private homes until 1896, when the first church of the conference of Mennonites in the North-West Territories was built on this site. The Mennonite community had organized…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5CH_ukrainian-settlers-of-canora_Canora-SK.html
The first block Ukrainian settlement in Saskatchewan was established in 1897 when 180 families arrives in the Canora district from western Ukraine. Ottawa had specified that earlier Ukrainian immigrants first settle in Alberta and Manitoba. Canora…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5CG_inglis-grain-elevators_Inglis-MB.html
This impressive grouping of five standard-plan wooden grain elevators is a rare survivor of the long rows that once dominated Prairie towns. The row was built between 1922 and 1941, Manitoba's golden age of elevators, by a cross-section of grain-h…