Alberta's Rockies

The Rocky Mountains inspired and challenged Aboriginal Peoples as well as settlers and visitors today. The engineering of the Canadian Pacific Railways through the mountains linked Canada from sea-to-sea but also made possible the recreational and cultural activities for which the region is renowned.

When Coal was King This site is the first phase of a multi-phase project that will result in a national website that explores coal mining...	Alberta Naturally Francophone Alberta is important historically, politically, economically, culturally and socially...
Celebrating Alberta's Italian Community Immigrants from Italy began to come to Western Canada in the 1880s to work on the railways and in the mines...