Ghost Towns
Did you know that there is 62 ghost towns in Alberta?
How do you think a town becomes extinct?
What do you think happened to them for everyone to leave or disappear?
Wouldn't it be cool to go and visit one and see what it was like?
Flowerdale was a community located about an hour and a half north east of Calgary. The town originallyThe settlement consisted of a post office, general store, and a sod house. Flowerdale has since been left uninhabited.
Flowerdale
Maybutt
Maybutt, also known as "New Stirling" or "New Town", and is located 1km away from the village of Stirling. It is in far south Alberta. Was a very active little town in 1900 and was going to be a junction for the railway before it went to the USA. You can still visit it today and see two brick houses as well as an old grain elevator.
Mountain Park
Mountain Park is a ghost town in western Alberta, south of Cadomin, at the end of the historic Alberta Coal Branch line of the Canadian National Railway (originally the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway). Production of steam coal for railroad use by the Mountain Park Coal Co. Ltd. began in 1912 or 1914. It closed in 1950 in response to rising debt, declining coal markets, and a flood by the McLeod River that washed out the railroad bed. Mining throughout the area ceased as the railroads replaced steam locomotives with diesel, and the town was quickly abandoned. Almost nothing remains of Mountain Park today, except for a restored cemetery and a few remnants of the mine. At its peak, the town was home to about 1,500 residents.
Orion
Was a small hamlet located in between Medicine hat and the American border. The hamlet has a grocery store, a post office, a gas station/hardware store, a newly built church and many remaining facades of past businesses. You can still go and visit it today if you are driving to Montana.
