On January 8, David Milne is born in Ontario. He would become a noted Canadian painter, printmaker and writer. He would be described as one of the three greatest North American artists of his generation by art critic Clement Greenberg, but he often...
Before Europeans came through the area, people like Anthony Henday, the land that would become Duchess was occupied by the Indigenous, specifically the Blackfoot. For the Blackfoot that occupied the area, the bison were an incredibly important part...
Today, southern Alberta is ranching country. It is where you will see acres and acres of farmland devoted to cows and other livestock. Go back over a century, and it was just wide open land. It was to that land that a man by the name of John Ware...