Fort Macleod

Little town

Might it be the hilly plains that give in to the spurs and the mighty Rocky Mountains? Was it the story of the first NWMP village in the west of Canada that gave us so much dignity and dignity? Is it possible that the few who avoid this small city, to achieve objectives that few other churches will even try?

If you are looking to start a new company or would like to attend one of our many activities, we sincerely wish that you will spend your free day here as you discover our world.

City of Fort Macleod

Fort Macleod may at first sight look like any other city in the south of Alberta - picturesque and tranquil, with a slow access to life. However, as you walk down Main Street through lightly decorated image courtyards, one by one on the facades of fine brickwork and sand-stone houses emanating echos of a bygone age, you can easily see that Fort Macleod is a place on the geolit.

Forte Macleod was once a place of camps, car tracks and solid flocks of cattle. Here the Northwest Mounted Policy built one of the first and most important fortresses in the area, which formed the foundation stone for the colonization of south-western Alberta. The city of Fort Macleod and the city of Patrimony Canada began a conservation program in 1982 to conserve the city's legacy and historical monuments, some dating back to 1878.

Today Fort Macleod is the only historical area in the provinces and a must for those who love the past.

Activities at Fort Macleod, Alberta.

Located about 40 min westwards of Lethbridge, on Crowsnest Highway #3 and the Oldman River, Fort Macleod is a testimony to Canada's border past. With odonames in honor of the indigenous plains that have constructed southwest Alberta - such as Jerry Potts-Boulevard, Chief Red Crow Boulevard and Colonel Macleod Boulevard - Fort Macleod recognizes its important part in the creation of the western Canada.

This is a renovated historic edifice in Fort Macleod. Originally called Fort Macleod, the northwestern police headquarter after which the capital was given its name, it was instrumental in establishing order on Canada's west border. Alberta itself, which was built in the immediate vicinity of the castle, has over the years given it its own signature.

American Hotel in Fort Macleod. According to its wealth of historical heritage, most of Fort Macleod's main tourist attraction is notable. You will find below a checklist of 7 things to consider if you are ever in Fort Macleod. Originally named'Fort Macleod', the city was constructed in 1874 on an Oldman River about 2 mile downstream from the present city.

Nicknamed after Colonel James Farquharson Macleod, then Northwest Mountain Police Commissioner, Fort Macleod was founded to safeguard Canada's western supremacy by ending the illegal and devastating trade in whiskies between Montanan and Blackfoot (which took place at whiskies trade points such as Fort Whoop-Up nearby).

Not only was Fort Macleod the second headquarter of the Northwest Mounted Policy (after Fort Livingstone, Saskatchewan, 1874-1876), but also the first NWMP-position, making it the birth place of Canada's legendary Royal Canadian Mounted Policy (which was a merger of the NWMP and the East Dominion Policy; founded in 1920).

In 1884 the fort was reconstructed on higher level due to inundation. As well as ending the Canadian whisky business, the NWMP of Fort Macleod assisted in suppressing Riel's 1885 northwest rebellion and regulating the Yukon-Alaska frontier and maintaining order and order in the icebound north during the Klondike gold rush of the late 1890s.

Today a reproduction of the 1884 fortress is home to the Fortuseum of the Northwest Mounted Police. It is open from May to early October and exhibits genuine uniform, arms, photographs, diagrams and implements that tell the story of the Northwest Mounted Police, the early years of Fort Macleod and the blackfoot population.

Fort Macleod downtown. Walking along historical Main Street (aka Colonel Macleod Boulevard) in Fort Macleod, one has the feeling that the building that lines it has not altered for a hundred years. Indeed, most of the Main Street building was constructed between 1906 (after a major fire, the initial wood stores and stores on Main Street were destroyed) and 1914.

The majority of the Main Street building was constructed during the 1911-1914 booming period. Between 1911-1914, many believing that Fort Macleod would become the trading center of South Alberta. Macleod Main Street Fort doesn't seem to have undergone any change in 100 years, inside and out. As a result, the city has seen an inward flow of Scots, British and Irish migrants, whose impact is reflected in the architectonic style of the brickwork and sand-stone edifices that line Main Street.

But after the First World War in 1914 the extension in Fort Macleod came to a standstill. Fort Macleod became less and less important, was replaced by increasing towns such as Calgary, Lethbridge and Medicine Hat and was largely forgotten. Today, the stony Main Street building has been preserved as a relic of an interesting and wealthy past.

Head Shed-In Buffalo Jump, one of Canada's 17 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, is located about 15 min westwards of Fort Macleod, between the Porcupine Hills, which marks the beginning of the Rocky Mountain outcrops. Empress Theater, the only theater in Fort Macleod, has been in use since 1912, making it the oldest continuously operated theater in western Canada.

The Empress with her 30s loving residences and unique suspended lights in traditional Italian styles offers regular programmes, movies, shows, festivals, theater and music theater performances throughout the work. The Downtown Fort Macleod near the Empress Theater. In the Kaisertheater there is a series of odd observations and events that have been told over the years by both staff and spectators.

However, some claim that the empress is being attacked by a number of spirits or the ghost of Dan Boyle, the former theater proprietor. Because of flood disasters, the former NWMP Fort Macleod on an Oldman River islet was demolished and rebuilt in the present city in 1884.

The new fort was largely forgotten and dilapidated after the founding of the Royal Canadian Mounted Policy in 1920. Unlike the other historic sites of Fort Macleod, Oldman Valley Wilderness Reserve is a nature wonder. Situated on the shores of the Oldman and MacKenzie Riverside, just off the MacKenzie Bridge (6th Avenue), RV Wilderness is a 120 hectare wildlife preserve with whitetailed and burl deers, bunnies, beaver, pike and the once-beaver.

There are many paths that allow the visitor to fully appreciate and appreciate the wildlife and wildlife and the Oldman River Valley's exceptional geographical features. The Fort Macleod Gulf & Country Club is Alberta's oldest course with its first round of 1890 and the oldest course in Winnipeg's wests.

This slope, about 250 metres from the first drive, was used for years by the Northwest Mounted Police as a gun area, and there are still mussels on its top.