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The Buffalo

  1. Jill Browne

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1.   Jan 18, 2007 7:11 PM

» Feature Writer Jill Browne - Buffalo - Fort Calgary

In response to Buffalo posted by alberta7621:


I recently wrote an article about Fort Calgary for Accessible Travel on Suite101. (Fort Calgary is wonderfully accessible in case you were wondering).

Many of the school programs at Fort Calgary teach the children how fundamentally important the buffalo / bison was to the First Nations people.

All visitors can see the 9-minute video about Calgary's history, which poignantly describes the very rapid disappearance of the buffalo in the 1870s. When the buffalo went, so did a whole way of life, on a scale it's hard for us to comprehend today.

There is a real mother bison with calf on display inside the front door at Fort Calgary. Of course, they died a long time ago, but they look quite lifelike in the Fort museum. Lots of visitors wonder if these animals were killed on purpose to make the display. Fortunately the answer is NO.

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