Well, we finally reached Canada, the Provence of Alberta.
The boarder crossing was a real breeze. the U.S. side asked if we had fire arms? And we said "no". Then we drove a little bit further to the Canadian side and they wanted to know if we had our passports? "Yes" of course we have them. Then they wanted to know if we had fruits and vegetables. They also wanted to know how long we might be staying in Canada? We told them we would be as long as it took to
get to Alaska and back. From there we stayed two days in Lethbridge . On May 21 we went to Fort Ma
cLeod. This is where the Black feet and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police worked together to survive the harsh winters, While Indians in the US were killing Pioneers to hold on to their land. That day we also went over to a place called "Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump." It is a great museum teaching about how the Fir
st Nation Indians would harvest the fruits, nuts, berries and game of the land. They told us how the Indians would stampede the buffalo into a funnel of bushes that directed the buffalo over a cliff. The buffalo was used for food and hides for the winter. They would actually make a long run of sagebrush and slowly get the buffalo in this area. Then they would send a fast runner, dressed as a small buffalo, running through the buffalo and get them running faster and faster and as they got close to the cliff the fast runner would jump off to the side and the buffalo where going so fast that they would go over the cliff causing a waterfall effect and come tumbling down. Then they they would spend many days getting the meat and hides they needed for the long winters of deep snow and to survive . It got its name from a young Indian brave who thought it would be neat to stand under the cliff and watch the buffalo cascade over the cliff. There were so many buffalo that they piled up deep enough to crush the young brave and his head was bashed in. On May 22, We went to the town of "Vulcan" where the people have taken advantage of their towns name and made it a Star Trek "headquarters". They had a big star ship on a large pillar, a visitor center focusing on Star Tre
k and mock ups where you can put on a Star Trek uniform and pose with Star Trek characters (cardboard of course).
"Vulcan" means "God of Fire". What a fun place to visit. We moved on to Fort Rocky Mountain House next. We saw an old trading post complete with live buffalo and beaver.
On May 25th we where finally in Edmonton, and we decided to go to the biggest Mall in the World, the Edmonton
Mall. It claims to be the largest mall in the Americas. They have e
verything from Wave Pools, to Carnival rides and
shopping, that is if you can stand long enough to shop and buy! The next day we went to Fort Edmonton Park, It has four distant time periods. It starts by exploring the Fur Trade Period
around 1795 and progresses to a 1925 Metropolitan Centre after World War I. It was a long day of history but well worth it. On May 27th we traveled to the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage village. It memorialized the immigration of the Ukrainians to the Americas. It was laid out in different time periods as reflected by the housing of each period. The houses started out with dirt sod houses
and progressed up to more modern wood houses. The Greek Orthodox Church
was truly beautiful with its traditional onion shaped dome. We sampled Ukrainian food called perogie, kind of like Pot stickers but it had a cheese/potato mix inside. It was a great treat!
The boarder crossing was a real breeze. the U.S. side asked if we had fire arms? And we said "no". Then we drove a little bit further to the Canadian side and they wanted to know if we had our passports? "Yes" of course we have them. Then they wanted to know if we had fruits and vegetables. They also wanted to know how long we might be staying in Canada? We told them we would be as long as it took to get to Alaska and back. From there we stayed two days in Lethbridge . On May 21 we went to Fort Ma
cLeod. This is where the Black feet and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police worked together to survive the harsh winters, While Indians in the US were killing Pioneers to hold on to their land. That day we also went over to a place called "Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump." It is a great museum teaching about how the Fir
st Nation Indians would harvest the fruits, nuts, berries and game of the land. They told us how the Indians would stampede the buffalo into a funnel of bushes that directed the buffalo over a cliff. The buffalo was used for food and hides for the winter. They would actually make a long run of sagebrush and slowly get the buffalo in this area. Then they would send a fast runner, dressed as a small buffalo, running through the buffalo and get them running faster and faster and as they got close to the cliff the fast runner would jump off to the side and the buffalo where going so fast that they would go over the cliff causing a waterfall effect and come tumbling down. Then they they would spend many days getting the meat and hides they needed for the long winters of deep snow and to survive . It got its name from a young Indian brave who thought it would be neat to stand under the cliff and watch the buffalo cascade over the cliff. There were so many buffalo that they piled up deep enough to crush the young brave and his head was bashed in. On May 22, We went to the town of "Vulcan" where the people have taken advantage of their towns name and made it a Star Trek "headquarters". They had a big star ship on a large pillar, a visitor center focusing on Star Tre
k and mock ups where you can put on a Star Trek uniform and pose with Star Trek characters (cardboard of course).
"Vulcan" means "God of Fire". What a fun place to visit. We moved on to Fort Rocky Mountain House next. We saw an old trading post complete with live buffalo and beaver.
On May 25th we where finally in Edmonton, and we decided to go to the biggest Mall in the World, the Edmonton 
Mall. It claims to be the largest mall in the Americas. They have e
verything from Wave Pools, to Carnival rides and 
shopping, that is if you can stand long enough to shop and buy! The next day we went to Fort Edmonton Park, It has four distant time periods. It starts by exploring the Fur Trade Period
around 1795 and progresses to a 1925 Metropolitan Centre after World War I. It was a long day of history but well worth it. On May 27th we traveled to the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage village. It memorialized the immigration of the Ukrainians to the Americas. It was laid out in different time periods as reflected by the housing of each period. The houses started out with dirt sod houses
and progressed up to more modern wood houses. The Greek Orthodox Church
was truly beautiful with its traditional onion shaped dome. We sampled Ukrainian food called perogie, kind of like Pot stickers but it had a cheese/potato mix inside. It was a great treat!
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