After we put together our tribute episode in memory of Former Canadian Prime Minister, Brian Mulroney, that had included a short tribute honoring my Step Father, Larry Bulmer, I thought about the World Heritage site I had visited and Larry talked about in the short segment I used in the show.
I figured most people probably know nothing about the Buffalo Jump nor the World Heritage site in Alberta , known as Head Smashed-In Buffalo Jump History Center. I figured here is a chance to tell that story and a couple of more I learned while traveling across Canada in 1996 with my Step-father and Mother. It was one of two trips I consider the trips of a lifetime, Western Canada and , our earlier covered, trip to the Florida Keys.
While it is impossible to really recreate a vacation from nearly 30 years ago, I thought I would highlight a couple of things we visited that really stood out. In this episode we will take you to the Canadian Province of Alberta, to visit the Head Smashed-In Buffalo Jump History Center, the tiny Mountain mining town of Frank, where one of Canada's most well known disasters took place when a Rockslide consumed the tiny town in 1903, and we will look back at the building of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, the cross country railroad that really brought unity to the nation. My Step-Father grew up around railroads because his father was a Railroad station manager in several towns along the line and because of that Larry was always "a lover of all things trains".
So, I hope you will enjoy this short trip across Canada, the only other country I have grown to love, and consider as sort of a second home.
If you would like to learn more about the Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump History Center its website is https://headsmashedin.ca/
and if you would like to learn more about the disaster at Frank's Slide its website is here
https://frankslide.ca/
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