Fort Macleod: Difference between revisions

 

==Understand==

 

 

 

Once agricultural settlement and the railway came to the region, Macleod boomed. The town became a Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) divisional point and frontier wood construction began to be replaced by brick and sandstone. In 1906 a fire devastated the downtown and destroyed most of the wooden buildings. From 1906 to 1912 Macleod had its greatest period of building, as more new brick and stone building replaced the destroyed wooden ones. Then in 1912 the CPR moved the divisional point and 200 jobs to Lethbridge, devastating the local economy. Fort Macleod ceased to grow, and in 1924 was forced to declare bankruptcy. Until the 1970s, the town's economy stagnated and the buildings from the turn-of-the-century remained untouched.

===In film===

Ang Lee's Academy Award-winning movie ''Brokeback Mountain'' was filmed in part in Fort Macleod. The laundry apartment is located at 2422 Third Avenue, where a sign is posted marking the "passionate reunion" of Jack and Ennis. ''Passchendaele'' was also filmed in Fort Macleod's historic downtown, which acted as a stand-in for Calgary circa 1915. Scenes involving the dust storm and Matthew McConaughey's character were also filmed in Fort Macleod in Christopher Nolan's 2014 film ''Interstellar'', where the giant dust clouds were created on location using large fans to blow cellulose-based synthetic dust through the air.

 

==Get in==

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[[File:Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump-27527-2.jpg|thumbnail|Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump]]

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| content=This [[UNESCO World Heritage Site]] has been in use for 5,500 years as a place where the aboriginal people of the plains killed buffalo by stampeding them over a cliff. An interpretive centre built into a cliff has exhibits on the buffalo hunt.

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[[File:Fort Macleod.JPG|right|thumb| The North-West Mounted Police fort in Fort Macleod, which is now a museum]]

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==Do==

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