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, P.O. Box 542 Fort Macleod, Alberta, TOL OZO , Canada

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Fort MacLeod and Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

A travel blog entry by momadunc

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Today we headed northwest across the Blood Reserve, past the St. Mary Reservoir, detouring along Old Agency Road to Fort MacLeod. We stopped at the Fort and although the interpretative programs stopped on Labor Day weekend, the museum and site were well worth the hour plus that we spent here. Scott seemed quite interested in the history of the the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He and his father share a need to read every label! I ...

"Buffalo were harmed in the making of that movie!"

A travel blog entry by craig.d.work

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So today on our way from Banff to the East we stopped at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, an provincial, federal, and world historic site and interpretive centre in south western Alberta. The visit was great, we watched a video describing the hunt, went on a walk outside the interpretive centre to see the jump itself and walked through the interpretive centre that told the story again and provided more information about the ...

Head-Smashed-In-Buffalo-Jump

A travel blog entry by amandamc

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... legend, a young Blackfoot (name of native people) wanted to watch the buffalo plunge off the cliff from below, but was buried underneath the falling buffalo. He was later found dead under the pile of carcasses, where he had his head smashed in – hence the name Head-Smashed-In-Buffalo-Jump.

There was a great museum there which explained the details of how the natives managed to get a whole herd of buffalo ...

Ramblings

A travel blog entry by dave.maureen

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... much to do. My beautiful co-workers will forgive me for being distracted.

I am trying to putter less and accomplish more. Packing up the house, packing up the trailer, putting the garden to bed, setting up our rentals, getting finances, income tax etc, etc, etc in order. Haven't really invested much time in making a plan for the next few months. Maureen, setting off without a travel plan – it’s hard to ...

Up, up, and away!

A travel blog entry by hittite

... Canada went metric many moons ago, and it’s bizarre, the insistence on sticking to a system that hardly made sense when it was originally put in place, and certainly not in the twenty-first century.

I think I just saw some mountains down below, wow, my very first Canadian mountains, I mean I did know we had mountains but never had the pleasure of seeing them in person before, albeit from a considerably novel angle than what most people admire large geological ...

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