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The Best Attractions In Irricana

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Pioneer Acres of Alberta Museum

Atlas Coal Mine National Historic Site

Royal Tyrrell Museum

Bleriot Ferry

Hoodoos

Rosedale Suspension Bridge

Horsethief Canyon

Irricana is a town in southern Alberta, Canada surrounded by Rocky View County. It is located adjacent to Highway 9, approximately 53 kilometres northeast of Calgary, west of the Drumheller badlands. The name of the town is an contraction of the words irrigation canals, which are found around the Irricana area.
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The Best Attractions In Irricana

1. Pioneer Acres of Alberta Museum Irricana
Pioneer Acres Museum is a museum located north of Irricana, Alberta, in Canada. The museum is located in Rocky View County in southern Alberta. Pioneer Acres is situated on 50 acres of land and includes over a dozen buildings. Pioneer Acres is at the north end of Irricana, Alberta only a 45-minute drive north-east of Calgary. Pioneer Acres and its volunteers preserve, display, and demonstrate equipment and artifacts that were used by the pioneers of Western Canada. A farm machinery and pioneer artifacts museum. The collection of operating farm machinery is on display throughout the summer. There is a historic house, school, blacksmith shop, steam building, stationary engine building and two antique truck buildings. A detailed listing of events can be found by visiting the website. 44th Ann...
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2. Royal Tyrrell Museum Drumheller
The Royal Tyrrell Museum is a Canadian tourist attraction and a centre of palaeontological research known for its collection of more than 130,000 fossils.Located 6 km northwest from Drumheller, Alberta and 135 km northeast from Calgary, the museum is situated in the middle of the fossil-bearing strata of the Late Cretaceous Horseshoe Canyon Formation and holds numerous specimens from the Alberta badlands, Dinosaur Provincial Park and the Devil's Coulee Dinosaur Egg Site.The Royal Tyrrell Museum is operated by Alberta's Ministry of Culture.
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3. Hoodoos Drumheller
4. Horsethief Canyon Drumheller
Horsethief Canyon is found 16 kilometres northwest of the town of Drumheller, in the province of Alberta, Canada. It is on the east bank of the Red Deer River, along Highway 838 . Both Horsethief Canyon and Horseshoe Canyon are distinctive features of the surrounding badlands of central Alberta. Although the two canyons look similar, they are separated by several kilometres and were created by different tributaries of the Red Deer River. The name Horsethief was given to this area because of an illegal horse trade network used in the last century. Horses being smuggled illegally between the United States and Alberta were supposedly hidden in this canyon, but the true origin of the name is not clear.
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5. Rosedale Suspension Bridge Drumheller
Drumheller is a town within the Red Deer River valley in the badlands of east-central Alberta, Canada. It is located 110 kilometres northeast of Calgary. The Drumheller portion of the Red Deer River valley, often referred to as Dinosaur Valley, has an approximate width of 2 kilometres and an approximate length of 28 kilometres .
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6. Atlas Coal Mine National Historic Site Drumheller
The Atlas Coal Mine National Historic Site is an inactive coal mine in Alberta, Canada that operated from 1936 to 1979. Located in East Coulee, it is considered to be Canada's most complete historic coal mine and is home to the country's last standing wooden coal tipple, and the largest still standing in North America. It was designated an Alberta Provincial Historic Resource in 1989 and a National Historic Site of Canada in 2002.
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7. Bleriot Ferry Drumheller
The Bleriot Ferry is a cable ferry in Alberta, Canada. It links the two sections of the North Dinosaur Trail as it crosses the Red Deer River from Kneehill County on the west, to Starland County on the east. It was built by Andre Bleriot commissioned in 1913 and, in addition to providing an essential transport service, acted as a major social hub in the Drumheller area.The ferry operates from late April to November.
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SMALL TOWN Western Chinese Food in CANADA

I took a road trip to visit a friend's restaurant called Ng's Cafe in Beiseker, Alberta for lunch and dinner! Watch as I have some delicious burgers and tasty Chinese buffet on my trip.

Ng's Cafe:
210 6 Street
Beiseker, AB
T0M 0G0

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Wikipedia:
Beiseker /ˈbaɪsɪkər/ is a village in the Canadian province of Alberta, approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) northeast of Calgary. It is considered to be an outermost part of the Calgary Region, and is included within Calgary's Census Metropolitan Area (CMA). The village is surrounded by rural Rocky View County, and the closest neighbouring communities are Irricana and Acme.

Lying in a belt of rich black soil, Beiseker was developed as an agricultural service centre. It was founded by the Calgary Colonization Company, whose purpose was to promote settlement by demonstrating the grain-growing potential of the area. The village's name came from Thomas Beiseker, a partner and vice president of the company.[4] Initial colonization took place in 1908 when the company recruited a number of ethnic German settlers from the Great Plains of the Dakotas. This is reflected in the number of German family names which predominate the area.

The village began to grow in 1910 when the branch line of the Canadian Pacific Railway was completed. In 1910, the first general store was opened in a large two story building which housed the school and dance hall.[5] The Grand Trunk Pacific line - now owned by Canadian National Railway - was constructed in 1912 to the east of the central business district. Telephone arrived in 1912 and electricity in 1928.[6] With the construction and intersection of Highways 9, 72 and 806 at the northeast edge of the village, Beiseker came to have a very favourable location in terms of road and rail access. Since it is located almost equidistant from Calgary and Drumheller, Beiseker began to emerge as a local service and trade centre for the surrounding rural agricultural area. Village status was achieved in 1921.

The surrounding area's great potential for grain-growing is shown by Beiseker's status as World Wheat King Capital, or as a top producing area of wheat.

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Small Town Alberta half an hour North of Calgary

Main Street Beiseker

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