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Claresholm & Rural Southern Alberta: Getting Back to My Roots

Last month I visited my parent's new home in Claresholm Alberta and they showed me around the town and surrounding rural areas. Claresholm is about an hour and half south of Calgary with a population of 3500. I grew up in Cochrane Alberta, which is northwest of Calgary, and when we moved there circa 1979/80, the population was a little bit more than that. Now I believe that population is nearing 18,000. Claresholm has a pace similar to that of Cochrane 30 years ago and that was part of the reason for their move. But I had fun exploring the town and getting back to my small town Alberta roots.
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There's a lot of these things out this way. Heck, even my parents just bought one!




Yup, this is cheap gas. By comparison, Vancouver's gas is currently at 1.35 cent/litre...


Claresholm has many churches of many denominations for a town of 3500:


This apparently is a Harvard war plane and is situated in this park to serve as a war memorial:










Hay!


Hay! closer:


Barn:


Barn closer:






These horses are just behind my parent's house, which is pretty much the edge of town:


Dolly and Pretty Girl are the horses, Dazey is my parent's curious dog:




Some sort of abandoned structure:




Old technology:






























































































There is no residential door to door mail delivery in Claresholm, this is where you check your mail:








Former train station, now restored and part of the Claresholm museum:


Claresholm's first school, moved to this site, next to the museum:


1920s cabin, also moved to this site:




















I was surprised to find veggie burgers on the menu at a Claresholm restaurant:


























I went here with my parents and learned a lot on this day. This site is an UNESCO world heritage site.
Rather than bore you with the deets on here, go here to learn more:
http://history.alberta.ca/headsmashedin/default.aspx


These rocks are actually here because of glaciers:


The actual buffalo jump:














The remaining pics are taken on my drive from Claresholm back to the Calgary airport:












































Calgary skyline from the far reaches of the south:


New hospital under construction:


Surviving small church is in deep south Calgary:


Bye Calgary/Alberta, it was a slice!
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Old Posted Aug 21, 2012, 1:41 PM
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I like very much your rural shots. Thanks for sharing. Very nice places to visit. Alberta looks wonderful. Summer there must be delicious.

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Great job EF. The photos really reflect the feeling of a southern Alberta town.
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Very cool, i'm diggin it! Thanks for the tour!
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Rural goodness - love that collection of barns and silos.

Interesting about the buffalo jump, too, I'd read about them but never seen a picture of one.
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Thanks bedhead, the buffalo jump site was a fabulous history lesson and the building itself built very forgiving to the site. When I got home, however, I wondered why I didn't get a photo of the outside of the interpretive centre, whooops!
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Great series, thanks for sharing. Small town Alberta is an interesting place indeed, very conservative lol.
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Nice shots of a cute little town. Thanks!
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Nice pictures. It looks like an extension of Montana, which would make sense.
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