Howdy! We are happy you're here. We are open Monday to Friday, 10 am to 5 pm. 60 years of keeping history alive! We will be closed for the May long weekend from Saturday, May 16 - Monday, May 18.
We will reopen Tuesday, May 19 from 10am to 6 pm, 7 days a week.
One of the most fascinating frontiersmen of southwestern Alberta was that of Andrew Christie whose contributions were in terms of coal mining, trading furs and recording weather conditions
HISTORICAL TRAGEDIES OF THE BEAVER MINES COAL INDUSTRY
Although resource extraction brought economic good times to this settlement nestled in the foothills to the west, local coal mining was not without its tragedies and loss of life.