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The Best Attractions In Val Marie

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Val Marie is a prairie village located in the southwestern region of Saskatchewan, Canada. It is about 30 kilometres from the Canada-United States border. Considered the gateway to the Grasslands National Park, Val Marie's economy is largely based on wheat farming, ranching, and tourism. Minor amounts of natural gas have been found nearby. Employment includes agriculture, federal government , tourism and a significant natural gas compressor relay station at the Montana border.
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  • 2. Grasslands Gallery Val Marie
    Grasslands National Park is a Canadian national park located near the village of Val Marie, Saskatchewan, and one of 44 national parks and park reserves in Canada's national park system . This national park is north from the American state of Montana and lies adjacent to the international boundary. The park was established in 1981. Prior to this the province's only national park was Prince Albert National Park. Grasslands National Park represents the Prairie Grasslands natural region, protecting one of the nation's few remaining areas of undisturbed dry mixed-grass/shortgrass prairie grassland. The park is located in the World Wildlife Fund-defined Northern short grasslands ecoregion, which spans much of southern Saskatchewan, southern Alberta, and the northern Great Plains states in the U...
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  • 4. Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park Maple Creek
    Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park is an interprovincial park straddling the southern Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary, located southeast of Medicine Hat. It is Canada's first and only interprovincial park. The park consists of two protected areas, the 345 km2 west block, that straddles the Alberta/Saskatchewan boundary between Alberta Highway 41, the townsite of Elkwater, Saskatchewan Highway 615, Saskatchewan Highway 271 and Fort Walsh, and the centre block, an additional area of 58 km2 in Saskatchewan, west of Saskatchewan Highway 21.
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  • 6. Grasslands National Park Saskatchewan
    Grasslands National Park is a Canadian national park located near the village of Val Marie, Saskatchewan, and one of 44 national parks and park reserves in Canada's national park system . This national park is north from the American state of Montana and lies adjacent to the international boundary. The park was established in 1981. Prior to this the province's only national park was Prince Albert National Park. Grasslands National Park represents the Prairie Grasslands natural region, protecting one of the nation's few remaining areas of undisturbed dry mixed-grass/shortgrass prairie grassland. The park is located in the World Wildlife Fund-defined Northern short grasslands ecoregion, which spans much of southern Saskatchewan, southern Alberta, and the northern Great Plains states in the U...
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  • 8. T. Rex Discovery Centre Eastend
    The T.rex Discovery Centre is a museum located in Eastend, Saskatchewan, Canada, that was built to contain the fossil remains of the Tyrannosaurus rex nicknamed Scotty which was found nearby. It also showcases many other fossil specimens that can be found in Saskatchewan and the surrounding area. The centre is operated by the Royal Saskatchewan Museum , of Regina, Saskatchewan, and was officially opened on May 30, 2003. The building contains the RSM Fossil Research Station.Scotty the T. rex was found in August 1991 by local high school principal Robert Gebhardt. Gebhardt had joined palaeontologists Tim Tokaryk and John Storer from the RSM on a prospecting expedition alongside the Frenchman River Valley. Gebhardt stumbled across a tail vertebra of the T.rex on a cattle trail he was walking ...
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