Drumheller

Drumheller is a small town with 8,029 inhabitants in Alberta, Canada. It is located about 110 kilometers east of Calgary at Red Deer River. She is known by the discoveries of dinosaur fossils in the surrounding Red Deer River Valley. Discoverer of the fossils was Joseph Burr Tyrrell in 1884. According to him the location in Drumheller Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology is named.

History

Shortly after the first settlers in 1897 appeared in the area of Drumheller, Colonel Samuel Drumheller bought in 1910 the country was named after him. There he settled in 1911 mines for the coal industry built. 1912 got Drumheller port for web traffic and thus a train station. 1913 Drumheller grew to a village ( Village ), 1916 to a small town ( Town) and 1930 to a big city ( City ) approach. The city flourished until after the Second World War coal as an energy source from electricity and petroleum increasingly lost importance. Drumheller was 1997/1998 due to the merger with the administration of the Municipal District of Badlands from city status to town jams back. Today you turn to instead of coal as an energy source natural gas deposits and oil. Agriculture also plays a large role. The landscape around Drumheller is dominated by badlands and wastelands by many well-preserved fossils of the Cretaceous are.

Attractions

  • Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
  • Horseshoe Canyon Formation
  • Canadian Badlands
  • Red Deer River
  • World's Largest Dinosaur ( the world's largest dinosaur ) Tyrannosaurus rex statue
  • Midland Provincial Park 6 km west of Drumheller
  • Old Atlas Coal Mine in East Coulee / Drumheller
  • StarMine Suspension Bridge
  • The Canadian Badlands Passion Play ( Passion Play )

View of the Bleriot Ferry

World's Largest Dinosaur in Drumheller

Hoodoos east of Drumheller

Alberta Highway 9 north of Drumheller

Alberta Highway 10 east of Drumheller

Postal codes in Canada The Village Town (disambiguation) Horseshoe-Canyon-Formation Hoodoo (geology) Statistics Canada
247815
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