Each August, Kootenai Brown Pioneer Village stages Talking Tombstones. Visits to and readings of the stories of south-west Alberta historical figures, recorded by moonlight at their final resting places.  On Aug 24, 2019, we visited the Holy Cross and Union cemeteries of Fort Macleod, Alberta.   

Each August, Kootenai Brown Pioneer Village stages Talking Tombstones. Visits to and readings of the stories of south-west Alberta historical figures, recorded by moonlight at their final resting places.  On Aug 24, 2019, we visited the Holy Cross and Union cemeteries of Fort Macleod, Alberta.   

In the foothills and mountains of South-West Alberta, the Kootenay & Alberta Railway offered a brief, yet storied history of operations from1912-1917. 

The Canadian Pacific Railway began it's second transcontinental railway branch in 1896, that brought the railroad to the doorsteps of south-west Alberta.  But Pincher Creek, the prosperous ranching community would only hear the whistle and the scream of steel rails in the distance.  Find out why from Kootenai Brown Pioneer Village historians Farley Wuth and Gord Tolton.  www.kootenaibrown.ca

RADIO KBPV - Tales of Kootenai Brown Pioneer Village - A podcast about the history of South-western Alberta–presented by Kootenai Brown Pioneer Village of Pincher Creek