Significant Events in Alberta Tourism
The history of Alberta tourism events:
- 1885: Banff National Park established, making it the first Canadian National Park, and the world's third
- 1912: The Alberta Legislature Building opens;Calgary Exhibition and Stampede debuts; Alberta's first movie theatre, the Empress Theatre, opens in Fort Macleod
- 1921: Road from Banff to Lake Louise opens
- 1923: Road from Banff to Radium opens; First competitive chuckwagon races at the Calgary Stampede
- 1927: Prince of Wales Hotel in Waterton opens 25 Jul 1927
- 1932: Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park established; Going-to-the-Sun Road opens in Waterton
- 1936: Chinook Train begins operation between Calgary and Edmonton (now on display at the Canadian Museum of Rail Travel)
- 1940: First teahouse on Sulphur Mountain opens; Icefields Parkway opens
- 1959: Sulphur Mountain Gondola opens - the first bi-cable gondola in North America and first ever gondola in Canada; First heritage trails (walking trails with posted historical information) open in Banff, including Hoodoos and Bow Summit trails
- 1962: Klondike Days begin in Edmonton, as extension of the Edmonton Exhibition, itself dating back to 1879.
- 1967: St. Paul opens a UFO landing pad to celebrate the Centennial of Confederation
- 1967: The Provincial Museum of Alberta/Edmonton opens December 6 as Alberta's project for Canada's centennial (now known as the Royal Alberta Museum).
- 1968: Calgary Tower opens June 30
- 1975: Fish Creek Park established in Calgary; Ukrainian Easter Egg "Pysanka" (10 metre high statue) erected in Vegreville, commemorating the settlement of Ukrainian immigrants east of Edmonton
- 1977: Kananaskis Country opens
- 1978: Commonwealth Games held in Edmonton
- 1981: West Edmonton Mall opens, with Phase II in 1983 and Phase III in 1985; Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump designated a World Heritage Site
- 1983: Edmonton hosts the World University Games
- 1985: Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology opens in Drumheller; Frank Slide interpretive Centre opens April 28; Oil Sands Interpretive Centre opens in Fort McMurray
- 1988: XV Olympic Winter Games held in Calgary
- 1990: Museum of the Regiments opened in Calgary, June 30
- 1991: Saamis Teepee erected in Medicine Hat; originally built for the Olympic Games in Calgary in 1988, the structure is the world's largest tepee
- 1996: Torrington Torrington Gopher Hole Museum opens
- 1997: Canadian Petroleum Interpretive Centre opens, honouring the occasion of the Leduc No. 1 oil well going into production on February 3, 1947; First leg ot Trans-Canada Trail, the Bow Corridor Link Trail, opened on October 18; Town of Legal unveils first of 28 murals
- 2000: Dino 2000 opens in Drumheller as a Millennium project in August. The 8 story T-Rex sculpture incorporates a viewing platform in the head; Shaw Millennium Skate Park opens in Calgary, the world's largest public outdoor skate park.
- 2006: The Military Museums announced June 3, a reorganization of the former Museum of the Regiments, Naval Museum of Alberta, and elements of the Calgary Aerospace Museum.
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