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Attractions
Discover the life of an early Crowsnest Pass coal miner as you explore the
first 300m of the Bellevue Underground Mine.
Featuring over 25,000 artifacts he Crowsnest Museum is one of Alberta's best
small museums.
Features local, provincial & some national work in the gallery located on
Highway 3 in Frank.
Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year the Frank Slide Centre tells
the story of the Frank Slide and the Crowsnest Pass.
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo
Jump Interpretive Centre
At a place where the foothills
meet the great plains, one of the world's oldest, largest and best preserved
buffalo jump's exist. Designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site,
Head-Smashed-In has been used continuously by aboriginal peoples of the
plains for more than 5,500 years.
Hillcrest Mines
The site of Canada's worst mining disaster in 1914.
The explosion killed 189 men. The site and cemetery features ruins, a mass
grave and a tribute to all miner killed in Canada.
Leitch Collieries
An interpretative trail highlights the ruins of the
only Canadian owned mine operating in the Crowsnest Pass. Leitch Collieries
operated from 1907 to 1915.
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