... preserved a wealth of history. The settling of Western Canada marks one of the worlds great migrations and the transformation of the region into an agricultural resource frontier (Bone 2002). Albertans enjoy a rich and varied heritage. From the early 1800's, when native people and fur traders used parts of this route to cross the mountain barrier, to immigrants from Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, Africa, ... Alberta's farmers among the most productive in the world. The first Banff-Jasper road was built as a relief-work project during the depression years of the 1930's, however, the p...

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