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Experience Alberta History.Com Open daily mid-May to Labour Day Labour to mid-May daily Open Phone: 403-378-4342 Phone: Open year-round, Wednesday through Sunday 11 am to 4 pm 4 to am 11 Sunday through Wednesday year-round, Open Location: 50 km northeast of Brooks, off Hwy 1 Hwy off Brooks, of northeast km 50 Location: Phone: 403-244-6333 Phone: Location: 707 13th Avenue, SW Calgary SW Avenue, 13th 707 Location: tours. 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Like Let your imagination bring the stories of this ambitious but short-lived buggies, iconic stage coaches and wagons from across the continent. a giant centipede stretching across the parched prairie landscape, this coal mining company to life as you stroll through the preserved stone In the restoration shop, discover how skilled craftsmen conserve and engineering marvel is the largest aqueduct of its kind in the world and ruins at Leitch Collieries. Investigate the remains of the power house, restore carriages. In the stable see how the horse teams are groomed spans 3.2 kilometres, suspending the concrete flume up to twenty metres washery, coke ovens, tipple and mine manager’s house for clues about and harnessed, then climb aboard for a carriage ride. This award-winning above the ground. the successes and failures of the operation. museum features over 250 horse-drawn vehicles – all on display. Location: 8 km southeast of Brooks, off Trans-Canada Hwy 1 Location: Hwy 3, Crowsnest Pass Location: Main Street, Cardston Phone: 403-653-5139 Phone: 403-562-7388 Phone: 403-653-5139 Open daily, May 15 to Labour Day Open daily, May 15 to Labour Day Open daily, year-round R Frank Slide Interpretive Centre T Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump ANNUAL PASS alberta’salberta’serta’ hhistoryistory alberta’saA Pass lbwith Class! erta’serta’s historyhistory Purchase an Experience Alberta’s History Pass and receive unlimited admission to 19 provincial historic sites, museums and interpretive centres in Alberta for one full year. 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