While the Lacombe area began to be settled in the late-19th century, it was for millennia occupied by the Indigenous. There were many culture groups who lived on the land but the most famous, and most recent, were the Blackfoot. For the Blackfoot...
For the Indigenous, the area of future Onoway was an important place because of the large lake found only a few kilometres away from the present townsite. The lake, now called Lac Ste. Anne, was called Wakamne by the Nakota Sioux and Manitou...
For thousands of years, Northern Sunrise County was the domain of the Indigenous, primarily the Dane-zaa or Beaver people, who migrated through the area to take advantage of the abundant resources and game that was present. The name Dane-zaa means...
Due to its location just west of Lake Manitoba, Dauphin was a common spot for the Indigenous to travel through during the pre-colonial era. Due to the fact the area was near major bodies of water, with nearby rivers, it was also one of the first...
The land that 100 Mile House is located on today was long the domain of the Indigenous, specifically the Shuswap, who developed a diverse and interesting culture in the region. Taking advantage of the bountiful resources, the Indigenous would form...
The land that Canora sits on today has long been the home of Indigenous nations such as the Anishinaabe and the Sioux. Later, as Europeans began to arrive in the east, a new Indigenous nation would come to the area of future Canora, the Metis...
The site that would one day be Athabasca sits on the land that was traditionally occupied by the Cree people. In fact, the name itself comes from the Cree. There are two main interpretations of the name and its origin. The first is that it comes...
The land that would be Valemount has been the traditional territory of the Indigenous including the Kootenai, Shuswap and Rocky Mountain Cree. They inhabited this area for thousands of years, forming complex societies that depended on each other for...
Before Europeans ever came to Canada. Long before fur traders and explorers, the land that would be Vernon was occupied by the Okanagan people, who named the area Nintle Moos Chin, which means ‘jumping over place where the creek narrows’ This name...
The area that current Innisfail sits on was for centuries occupied by the Blackfoot. Hunting vast herds of bison through the landscape, the Blackfoot became the dominant culture on the Canadian Plains but that would begin to change as Europeans...