McNab | |
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  McNab | |
| Coordinates:49°12′21″N112°10′21″W / 49.2058°N 112.1725°W /49.2058; -112.1725 | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Alberta |
| Region | Southern Alberta |
| Census division | 2 |
| Municipal district | County of Warner No. 5 |
| Government | |
| • Governing body | Warner County Council |
| • MP | Jim Hillyer |
| • MLA | Gary Bikman |
| Elevation | 935 m (3,068 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC−7 (MST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−6 (MDT) |
| Postal code span | |
| Area code | +1-403 |
| Highways | Highway 506 |
| Railways | Canadian Pacific Railway |
McNab is a former unincorporated community insouthern Alberta, Canada within theCounty of Warner No. 5. It is located onHighway 506 between the Hamlet ofNew Dayton and the Village ofWarner, approximately 50 kilometres (31 mi) southeast of the City ofLethbridge.
McNab is named after McNabb, master mechanic of theAlberta Railway and Irrigation Company atLethbridge, Alberta, although it was spelled erroneously.[citation needed]
TheDevil's Coulee Dinosaur Heritage Museum[1] features aHadrosaur (duck-billed dinosaur) nest and embryo, ancient fossils, dinosaur models, located in theWarner.
TheGalt Historic Railway Park located 1 km north ofStirling is another popular museum which displays of life and travel in the 1880s to 1920s are set up in the restored 1890North West Territories International Train Station fromCoutts, Alberta,Canada andSweetgrass, Montana, USA. The station was moved to the current location near Stirling in 2000 and is added onto every year. Future plans to move the 1925 Oglvie grain elevator fromWrentham for display along the station in the 36 acre park is still in the planning stages.
Stirling Agricultural Village is aNational Historic Site of Canada, and was listed as one of only three communities inCanada designated as aNational Historic Site because of the community’s well preserved settlement pattern that follows thePlat of Zion model.[2] Located within the village are two museums theMichelsen Farmstead a totally restored 1900s home showcasing rural life in Alberta in the 1930s. Listed as a Provincial Historic Site in 2001.,[3] and the Galt Historic Railway Park.
TheWarner elevator row is a row of historic wood-cribbedgrain elevators. A total of six elevators still stand in a row from south to north alongside theCanadian Pacific Railway on the east entrance of the village ofWarner. Due to the loss of a vast amount of Alberta's many grain elevators, the elevator row in Warner remains the very last row of elevators in Alberta. Only two elevator rows remain in Canada, Warner's row and the elevators inInglis, Manitoba.
Waterton Lakes National Park is a National Park located in the extreme southwest corner of Alberta, Canada, 40 km west ofCardston, and bordersGlacier National Park in Montana, USA.Waterton Lakes was Canada's fourth National Park formed in 1895. TheRocky Mountains rise suddenly out of the rolling prairies in the park. Amid the peaks are the threeWaterton Lakes, carved out of the rock by ancientglaciers.
Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, is one of the largest areas of protected prairie in the Alberta park system, and serves as both anature preserve and protection for the largest concentration ofrock art, created by Plains People. There are over 50 rock art sites, with thousands of figures, as well as numerous archeological sites.
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