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==Understand==
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Fort Macleod was founded as a North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) barracks, and is named in honour of
The fort was built as a 70 by 70
▲Fort Macleod was founded as a North-West Mounted Police barracks, and is named in honour of the North-West Mounted Police Colonel James Macleod.
▲The fort was built as a 70 by 70 meters square (233 by 233 ft) on October 18, 1874. The east side held the men's quarters and the west side held those of the Mounties. Buildings such as hospitals, stores, and guardrooms were in the south end. Stables and the blacksmith's shop were in the north end.
The town grew on the location of the Fort Macleod
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.
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===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.
===Tourist information ===
* [https://www.fortmacleod.com/play/tourism Tourism website]
==Get in==
===By car===
Highway 2 is Alberta's main north-south highway; it comes down from Edmonton and passes through Calgary east of downtown. Within Calgary, part of it is called the "Macleod Trail".
===By bus===
* {{listing|name=The Canada Bus|alt=|url=https://thecanadabus.com/|[email protected]|address=|lat=|long=|directions=|phone=+1 403-668-9600|tollfree=|hours=|price=|lastedit=2022-05-16|content=Service from [[Calgary]] and [[Lethbridge]].}}
* {{listing
| name=FlixBus | alt= | url=https://www.flixbus.ca/ | email=
| address= | lat= | long= | directions=
| phone= | tollfree=
| hours= | price=
| wikidata=Q15712258
| lastedit=2024-04-04
| content=Service from [[Lethbridge]], [[Edmonton]], and [[Calgary]].
}}
* {{listing
| name=Mountain Man Mike's Bus Service | alt= | url=https://mountainmanmikes.ca/ | [email protected]
| address= | lat= | long= | directions=
| phone=+1-778-382-7729 | tollfree=
| hours= | price=
| lastedit=2022-03-19
| content=Weekly service between [[Calgary]] and [[Kaslo]] with stops in [[Okotoks]], [[High River]], [[Claresholm]], Fort Macleod, [[Pincher Creek]], Sparwood, [[Fernie]], [[Cranbrook]], [[Creston]], [[Salmo]], [[Nelson_(British_Columbia)|Nelson]], and [[Ainsworth_Hot_Springs-Balfour|Balfour]]. This service provider also offers a twice per week service between Kaslo and [[Vancouver]] via Nelson.
}}
* {{listing
| name=Red Arrow | alt= | url=https://www.redarrow.ca/ | [email protected]
| address=4316 1 Street W | lat= | long= | directions=Claresholm Shell Station
| phone= | tollfree=+1-800-232-1958
| hours= | price=
| wikidata=Q7122769
| lastedit=2022-05-08
| content=Operates premium service in [[Alberta]] featuring spacious seating (only three seats to a row) and workstation seats with electrical connections for business travelers and their computers. Sister brand Ebus serves most of the same destinations in standard motorcoaches for a lower fare.
}} Operates a route between [[Lethbridge]] and Calgary International Airport including stops in Fort Macleod, [[Claresholm]], and downtown [[Calgary]]. Operates several days per week.
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* {{listing|name=Rider Express|alt=|url=https://riderexpress.ca/schedules/|[email protected]|address=|lat=|long=|directions=|phone=+1 306-209-3636|tollfree=+1-833-583-3636|hours=|price=|wikipedia=|wikidata=|lastedit=2020-12-10|content=Operates intercity bus routes in western Canada. Operates two trips per week in each direction between [[Calgary]] and [[Regina]] including stops in Fort Macleod, [[Lethbridge]], [[Medicine Hat]], [[Maple Creek]], [[Swift Current]], and [[Moose Jaw]].}}
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===By plane===
*{{listing | type=go
| name=Fort Macleod Airport | alt= | url= | email=
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[[File:Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump-27527-2.jpg|thumbnail|Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump]]
* {{see
| name=Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump | alt=Estipah-skikikini-kots | url=
| address= | lat=
| phone=+1 403-553-2731 | tollfree= | fax=
| hours=
| lastedit=2018-10-06
| 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.
}}
[[File:Fort Macleod.JPG|right|thumb| The North-West Mounted Police fort in Fort Macleod, which is now a museum]]
* {{see
| name=The Fort Museum of the North West Mounted Police | alt= | url=
| address=219
| phone=+1 403-553-4703 | tollfree=+1-866-273-6841 | fax=
| hours=May 1-18 and Sep 4-late Oct: W-Su 10AM - 4PM; May 19-Jun 30: daily 9AM-5PM; July 1-early Sep: daily 9AM-6PM; late Oct-April 30: by appointment only | price=$7.50, youth $5.50, child $4.50; less in shoulder season
| image=Fort Macleod.JPG
|lastedit=2023-06-24| content=Commemorates the role of the North West (later Royal) Mounted Police in bringing English authority to the Canadian Plains during the 19th century. Interpretive exhibits, museum displays. Demonstration of horseback riding four times daily during the summer.
}}
==Do==
*{{do
| name=Empress Theatre | alt= | url=
| address=235 Main Street | lat= | long= | directions=
| phone=+1 403-553-4404 | tollfree=+1 800-540-9229 | fax=
| hours=Box office M-F 11AM-4PM | price=
| wikidata=Q37777923
| lastedit=2021-04-27
| content=
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* {{sleep
| name=Century II Motel | alt= | url= | [email protected]
| address=462 24
| phone=+1 403 553-3331 | tollfree= | fax=
| checkin= | checkout= | price=From $69
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* {{sleep
| name=Sunset Motel | alt= | url=http://mysunsetmotel.com/ | email=[email protected]
| address=104 Hwy 3 W | lat=49.723036 | long=-113.412846 | directions=
| phone=+1 403-553-4448 | tollfree= | fax=
| checkin= | checkout= | price=From $86
| wikipedia= | wikidata=
| lastedit=
| content=Free WiFi and a flat-screen cable TV. 5 km from Fort Macleod airport. Free WiFi in all areas. A microwave, refrigerator and a coffee machine are provided in all rooms. A private bathroom is included. Some rooms feature a kitchenette.
}}
* {{sleep
| name=Heritage Motel | alt= | url= | email=
| address=
| phone=+1 403 553-4205 | tollfree= | fax=
| checkin= | checkout= | price=
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* {{sleep
| name=Fort Motel | alt= | url= | email=
| address=451 24th Street | lat=49.725782 | long=-113.401167 | directions=
| phone=+1 403 553-3115| tollfree= | fax=
| checkin= | checkout= | price=From $59
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* {{sleep
| name=DJ Motel | alt= | url= | email=
| address=416 24th Street (Colonel Macleod Boulevard) | lat=49.725323 | long=-113.402634 | directions=
| phone=+1 403 553-4011 | tollfree= | fax=
| checkin= | checkout= | price=
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