Travel in Alberta

 
Eugene Bourgeau — the “Little Brick” of the Palliser Expedition that roamed what’s now Alberta for three years in the late 1850s — was so short his feet couldn’t reach the stirrups of a standard Hudson Bay Company saddle.

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Eugene Bourgeau — the “Little Brick” of the Palliser Expedition that roamed what’s now Alberta for three years in the late 1850s — was so short his feet couldn’t reach the stirrups of a standard Hudson Bay Company saddle.

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I always feel a little beyond my best-before-date when I still recall the staccato clatter of the telegraph in the cramped little Grand Trunk Railroad station in my old home town of Mercoal.

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Blue-winged olives are not the cumulative effect of one too many extra-dry martinis — where the Vermouth in the gin is more rumour than reality and the green orbs on the skewer become cosmic and celestial.

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In a bid to encourage Californians to visit Alberta, the province has set up a fake dinosaur excavation on Santa Monica Beach.

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The bull trout, in the collective culture of Alberta angling, was once a detested and reviled fish.

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Apparently the Luck of the Irish can be channeled two ways.

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Mar 102012
 
There have always been at least four solid reasons to visit Alberta's Jasper National Park: Its town, its nature, its great Canadian railroad and its iconic grand hotel.

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I kind of doubt that Danny Flowers is a walleye man.

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If the truth be told, the lunch bucket sport of ice angling for pike and the snob appeal aesthetics of casting a dry fly to rising trout live in parallel universes.

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