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  • 1. Red Rock Coulee Orion
    The Red Coat Trail is a 1,300-kilometre route that approximates the path taken in 1874 by the North-West Mounted Police in their quest to bring law and order to the Canadian West.
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  • 2. 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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  • 3. Fort Walsh National Historic Site Maple Creek
    Fort Walsh is a National Historic Site of Canada that was a North-West Mounted Police fort and the site of the Cypress Hills Massacre. Administered by Parks Canada, it forms a constituent part of Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park. The fort was built in June 1875, and was named for its builder, inspector James Morrow Walsh. The fort was intended to curb the illegal whiskey trade, protect Canada's nearby border with the United States, and aid with native policy. These factors had been brought to public attention following the Cypress Hills Massacre of 1873, and resulted in Sir John A. Macdonald's establishment of the North-West Mounted Police. Fort Walsh served as the NWMP headquarters from 1878 to 1882. In 1883 the fort was closed and dismantled.The site of the fort was designated a Nation...
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  • 4. Writing-On-Stone Provincial Park Milk River
    Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park is located about 100 kilometres southeast of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, or 44 kilometres east of the community of Milk River, and straddles the Milk River itself. It is one of the largest areas of protected prairie in the Alberta park system, and serves as both a nature preserve and protection for a large number of aboriginal rock carvings and paintings. The park is important and sacred to the Blackfoot and many other aboriginal tribes. The park has been nominated by Parks Canada and the Government of Canada as a World Heritage Site. Its UNESCO application was filed under the name Áísínai'pi which is Niitsítapi meaning it is pictured / written. The provincial park is synonymous with the Áísínai'pi National Historic Site of Canada.
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  • 5. Etzikom Windmill Museum Etzikom
    Etzikom is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada within the County of Forty Mile No. 8. It is approximately 20 kilometres east of Foremost on Highway 61. Etzikom was founded in 1915. Its name comes from the Blackfoot language word for valley or coulee, referring to Etzikom Coulee. Etzikom is also home to The Canadian National Historic Windmill Centre, a museum dedicated to windmills throughout history. Etzikom's representative in Alberta's provincial legislature is Drew Barnes.
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