Today’s Greatitude

Today is International Museum Day!

Museums are vital venues for cultural exchange and enrichment, as well as for the snapshot of days gone by in a tangible and real form.

In 1893 the CPR built a railway station in downtown Calgary that consisted of two buildings separated by a breezeway. Calgary soon outgrew the station, and in 1910 and 1911, the buildings were demolished, and the sandstone was carefully taken apart and loaded onto rail cars. They were transported to the towns of High River and Claresholm where the stations were rebuilt and opened in 1912.

The west side of the station became the High River station and Claresholm-the east side, and today these buildings house the museums for both communities.

Hooray for History and the resource that is the museums in our communities!