Sunrise from the hotel
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A neat museum in the city of Banff
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Collections on the history and wildlife of the Rockies
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Another view of the stuffed animals - some over a century old.
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Monarch butterflies get this far North!
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A Mountie in dress uniform at the Banff museum
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And art gallery in Red Deer, Alberta reproduces famous paintings on its walls
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Karen admires the portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner copied from her museum in Boston
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Oil is the local economy in Alberta
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And the magazines for business show it.
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As does this statue in the Edmonton Mall, the (claimed) world's largest mall
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Fort MacLeod is a well preserved town in Southern Alberta
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The Empress THeater in Ft. MacLeod
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The old fort established by the Mounties is now open as a museum.
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The buildings used sod roofs for its insulation in the cold winters
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Me and a buffalo - which were all but exterminated
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A diorama showing how Indians drove herds of buffalo over cliffs to kill them for hides and meat
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A very early X-ray machine, one of several on display in the museum
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Interior of the Silver Grill where we had lunch (Chinese food, eh!)
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Bar in the Silver Grill
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Alberta seems to be all about energy - windmills in the South. We also saw coal trains as long as you could see - headed to the coast to ship coal to China.
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