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Fort Chipewyan Museum Wins Award

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The tiny Fort Chipewyan Historical Society has beat out larger organizations to win a coveted tourism award this year.

The Tourism Industry Association of Alberta (TIALTA) awarded the small organization the 1993 Heritage Tourism Award.

The museum first opened in 1990. Its construction was started two years before, as part of the community's bicentennial celebrations. A full size reproduction of the Hudson's Bay Company 1870 stores building, it features both native and historic displays and a model of the late 1800s fort itself.

Art collection granted new life

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An historic collection of Native art, once threatened with being dispersed among private buyers, is on its way to a new home.

A committee of Alberta artists and an elder is undertaking a year-long study into where the unique collection should be housed. The approximately 230 pieces of art and cultural objects faced the auction block less than a year ago when their guardian, the now defunct Indian Arts and Crafts Corporation, closed because of funding cuts.

Art collection granted new life

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An historic collection of Native art, once threatened with being dispersed among private buyers, is on its way to a new home.

A committee of Alberta artists and an elder is undertaking a year-long study into where the unique collection should be housed. The approximately 230 pieces of art and cultural objects faced the auction block less than a year ago when their guardian, the now defunct Indian Arts and Crafts Corporation, closed because of funding cuts.

Art collection granted new life

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An historic collection of Native art, once threatened with being dispersed among private buyers, is on its way to a new home.

A committee of Alberta artists and an elder is undertaking a year-long study into where the unique collection should be housed. The approximately 230 pieces of art and cultural objects faced the auction block less than a year ago when their guardian, the now defunct Indian Arts and Crafts Corporation, closed because of funding cuts.

Art collection granted new life

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An historic collection of Native art, once threatened with being dispersed among private buyers, is on its way to a new home.

A committee of Alberta artists and an elder is undertaking a year-long study into where the unique collection should be housed. The approximately 230 pieces of art and cultural objects faced the auction block less than a year ago when their guardian, the now defunct Indian Arts and Crafts Corporation, closed because of funding cuts.

Siksika cowboy leaves unique legacy

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A chuckwagon with four outriders led Edward Yellow Old Woman on his last ride up to the Big Ranch in the Sky.

It was a funeral procession the grizzled cowboy would have approved of. "Ed Olds", as he called himself on the chuckwagon trail, drove from 1935 to 1950 for outfits like J.J. Swain, and Bow River Ranch. He was a veteran Calgary Stampede chuckwagon competitor and two-time wild horse race champion, as well as taking winnings in steer decorating.