The Indigenous Long before the arrival of Europeans to the area, with great bison herds roaming over the land and numbering in the millions, the Indigenous occupied the land that would be Olds. The entire area was the traditional land of the...
Indigenous History The area around Didsbury had been used by the Indigenous people for centuries, where they followed the bison as they migrated along the Plains. The land around Didsbury was occupied primarily by the Blackfoot. The Cree also lived...
When early settlers came to the prairie areas that would become Saskatchewan and Alberta, they often built sod houses to live in. These sod houses were simple structures that could often leak, have rodent and snake problems, and generally were not...