Day 37
Thursday, July, 20, 2017
We departed from Hinton, AB, continuing on Yellowhead Highway/TC-16 E.
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Largest Dragonfly in Canada, in Wabamum, AB
(a Roadside America attraction) |
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Alberta Legislature Building (1907-1913, designed by Allan Merrick Jeffers
and Richard Blakey in Beaux-Arts style) in Edmonton, AB |
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Historic 1947 Melbourne streetcar #930 is operated
seasonally by the Edmonton Radial Railway Society |
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Ukrainian Centennial Pioneer Monument (1991, by Danek Możdżeński)
to commemorate the arrival of the first Ukrainian settlers in 1891 (KSS) |
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Francophone Imprint (2007) commemorating
French as the first European language spoken in
Alberta, by French explorers and fur traders |
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| Children were playing in almost all the pools on the capital grounds |
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| A model made of Legos of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France |
The Canadians were able to take Vimy Ridge in France from the Germans during World War I, when the British and French forces had failed. It became a Canadian national symbol of achievement and sacrifice. The centennial of the battle was celebrated on 4/9/2017.
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We had lunch at a Canadian Brewhouse, while our car was getting
an oil change across the street at a Honda dealer |
We continued onward to Elk Island National Park.
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| Beaver lodge |
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| Moss Lake Trail |
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| All we saw of bison was this patty |
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| Log path |
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| Can you see the Enallagma sp/Bluet Pond Damselfly? (KSS) |
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Aha, if you take the Bison Loop Road,
you have a better chance of seeing a bison! |
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| Another pair of Canada National Park red chairs |
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Whoa! That same bison crossed the exit road in front of us
(the cattle guard is just beyond the bison) |
We stopped in Vegreville, AB for gas, and found another superlative.
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The world's largest Pysanka/Ukrainian Easter Egg (1975)
(a Roadside America attraction) |
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| Canola fields by Kenilworth Lake (KSS) |
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