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Old Feb 25th 2011, 1:53 pm
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Originally Posted by mandymoochops
I've never been but every time I see pictures they just crack me up
It cracks me up just thinking about the thought process the person had thinking of this place. You can just see it, a bunch of people around the fire pit...
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Old Feb 25th 2011, 2:23 pm
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Originally Posted by mandymoochops
Yes i've just thought of somthing in AB

It's the gopher museum in torrington

http://www.canada.com/travel/Photo+G...444/story.html

Lots of little dead gophers distastefully dressed up in all manner of costumes for the viewing pleasure of the public.

Awesome
That place is brilliant, I'd love to go. How far away from Calgary is it?
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Old Feb 25th 2011, 5:07 pm
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Originally Posted by Oink
That place is brilliant, I'd love to go. How far away from Calgary is it?
mmm hour and a half / 2 hours tops.

Yeah PP - "dagnabbit what the hell we gon do with all these here dead varmits?????"
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http://www.chickadeeridgeminiatures.com/index1.html - do not make conversation with the old lady owner - you will live to regret it.
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Minutes of fun available here http://www.mastodonridge.com/home/index.php
Love their brag about being halfway to the Equator. Not quite the same as straddling the Greenwich Meridian!
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Nobody has mentioned Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump! It's about 2 hours from Calgary near the BC border.

We visited just because of the name and then found out it was a Unesco World Heritage Site!

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Originally Posted by TheThornes
Love their brag about being halfway to the Equator. Not quite the same as straddling the Greenwich Meridian!
The equator is a fairly obvious and fairly absolute dividing line. The Greenwich Meridian is completely arbitrary and is where it is simply as a result of former English hegemony.

What's your point?
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Originally Posted by zmartin
Nobody has mentioned Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump! It's about 2 hours from Calgary near the BC border.

We visited just because of the name and then found out it was a Unesco World Heritage Site!

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That's because everyone knows about it, we're doing ones that are not well known
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[QUOTE=mandymoochops;9199893]Yes i've just thought of somthing in AB

It's the gopher museum in torrington

http://www.canada.com/travel/Photo+G...444/story.html

omg! definatley ones of those times where you feel sick
but have to laugh at the same time lol x
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Look no further than Alberta for the weird and wonderful:
- World's largest beaver in (where else?) Beaverlodge
- The outdoor chess set in Medicine Hat
- World's largest chuckwagon in Dewberry
- The big cowboy in Airdrie
- The crown in (where else?) Coronation
- The Easter Egg (Pysynka) in Vegreville
- World's largest mallard duck in Andrew
- World's largest oil derrick in Redwater
- World's largest pyrogy in Glendon
- Squirt the Skunk in Beiseker
- Eddie the Squirrel in Edson
- Starship FX6-1995-A and the Trek station in Vulcan
- The tinman in Barrhead
- Who wouldn't love the UFO Landing pad in St. Paul?
- The wind gauge in Lethbridge. Seriously, I love this one.
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Originally Posted by mandymoochops
mmm hour and a half / 2 hours tops.

Yeah PP - "dagnabbit what the hell we gon do with all these here dead varmits?????"
I love this place, especially the book they have of all the complaints, most of which come from the UK!
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Old Feb 26th 2011, 9:29 pm
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I made a 4hr round trip to visit this place with my family and it was the biggest load of rubbish I have ever seen.

15 mins and it was over.
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Old Feb 26th 2011, 10:00 pm
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This one isnt bad as it looks.

McAdam Railway Station. We had a guided tour and they have an amazing dining area with the original stools and great sweeping counter top (very art-deco)

You can try Ministers Island on the way to St Andrews, again another quiet spot but worth a picnic trip on a summers day. We spent a half day here walking and looking around the house etc... not like National Trust but interesting and pretty.

Havent been to this but could be worth 15 minutes

There are some small county fairs here in NB. Queens county fair (in Gagetown is the biggest). It reminded me of the village fairs in the UK.
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Old Feb 27th 2011, 12:20 am
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Blackfoot Crossing is pretty good. About an hour from Calgary.

Of course it it closed at the weekends October - April, making it near impossible to visit if you are not a tourist.

And the food is of the same standard as other previously mentioned First Nations eateries, but the actual museum part is pretty good.
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Old Feb 27th 2011, 12:33 am
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This place is fascinating. It sounds dull but it ain't
http://www.canoemuseum.ca/
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