Rochon Sands Provincial Park is a provincial park located in Alberta, Canada.
It is located on the south shore of Buffalo Lake (Alberta), within the summer village of Rochon Sands. This provincial park can be accessed north east from Red Deer, Alberta on Highway 11, or north west from Stettler on Highway 12 and secondary highway 835.
The park was established on January 8, 1957.
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“... continual hard labor deadens the energies of the soul, and benumbs the faculties of the mind; the ideas become confined, the mind barren, and, like the scorching sands of Arabia, produces nothing; or, like the uncultivated soil, brings forth thorns and thistles. Again, continual hard labor irritates our tempers and sours our dispositions; the whole system become worn out with toil and fatigue; nature herself becomes almost exhausted, and we care but little whether we live or die.”
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