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Fort Macleod | Alberta
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The Fort – Museum of the North West Mounted Police
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Red-coated precursors to Royal Canadian Mounted Police were dispatched to Fort Macleod in the 1870s to stop American whiskey traders from abusing Blackfoot First Nations and defying Canadian sovereignty on the Prairies. Museum and musical rides honour Canada’s tradition of cavalry riding to the rescue of natives, not interlopers. Visit the nearby restored 1884 police […]
The Home Town of Joni Mitchell
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Rolling Stone called Joni Mitchell “one of the greatest songwriters ever”. Roberta Joan “Joni” Mitchell was born in Fort Macleod. As she told Billboard magazine in 1995, the first memory she can recall took place in Fort Mac: Dust bunnies floating in a stream of sunlight above her crib. Joni Mitchell, responsible for hits such […]
Empress Theatre
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The Empress Theatre was built in 1912 as a venue to entertain the Northwest Mounted Police through vaudeville and theatrical productions in the earlier days. The Empress has films, hosts concerts and several film festivals. It has served as a vaudeville house, concert hall, live theatre, its main production being a run as a moving […]
Fort Macleod Main Street
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Main Street is one of only two locations in Alberta to be a Designated Historical Area (the other one is Old Strathcona in Edmonton). In 1982 a government grant assisted Fort Macleod in restoring the original buildings of the 1910-1920s era. After a fire razed the existing wooden structures in 1906, a bylaw was put […]
The Home Town of 18 Movies
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Upon visiting Fort Macleod, you will recognize many buildings or attributes from movies like Ghostbusters, Interstellar, Passchendaele, Brokeback Mountain, In Cold Blood, etc. Fort Macleod has had up to 18 Films shot in or around the town. Many films have been shot using historic Main Street as the background. Walking tour maps explain the original uses of the buildings.
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump | World Heritage Site
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At the place known as Head-Smashed-In in southwestern Alberta, Aboriginal people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years before European contact. Now it’s one of Canada’s 17 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, about 15 minutes west of Fort Macleod, among the Porcupine Hills that marks the beginning of the Rocky Mountain foothills. Head-Smashed-In […]
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Northwest Mounted Police 1884 Barracks
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Due to flooding problems, the original NWMP Fort Macleod, built on an island in the Oldman River, was torn down and re-erected in 1884 in what is now the present-day townsite. After the formation of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920, the new fort largely fell into disuse and subsequent decay. However, the fort’s […]
River Valley Wilderness Park
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The Oldman River Valley Wilderness Park is a natural phenomenon. Located on the banks of the Oldman River just north of Fort Macleod across the MacKenzie Bridge (6th Avenue), River Valley Wilderness Park is a 120-acre park home to white-tail and mule deer, rabbits, beavers, fish and the rare narrow-leaf cottonwood tree once typical of […]
Fort Macleod Golf Club
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Golf was first played in Fort Macleod in 1890; this was the first course to be built between Winnipeg and the West Coast. The area 250 yards from the first tee was used until about 1924 by the N.W.M.P. as a pistol and rifle range. This 9-hole course is set in the river valley, surrounded […]
Homestead Bakeshop
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We are committed to showcasing Artisan Baking in both Bread and Pastries, along with ensuring that flavour and baking from scratch are priorities. We believe in using real Butter and always start with the basic ingredients to create our products. You can often find us peeling apples for your apple pie, cracking eggs for your […]
Windy Rafters Barn Dance
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Experience a Western Canadian barn in a historic 100 year+ old work-horse barn, or relax and enjoy the atmosphere and antique farm memorabilia. We can offer a pleasant mix of Country music as well as a mouth-watering country-style meal of roast beef. Twice a year we hold a ‘Grand Old Opry’ featuring talented local musicians.