List of provincial historic sites of Alberta
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These are museums and historic sites run by the Government of Alberta.[1] This does not include federally- or municipally- run sites, nor does it include privately-owned sites that than been given historical status by the provincial government, of which there are hundreds.
- Brooks Aqueduct, irrigation museum near Brooks Alberta
- Carmangay Tipi Rings - archeological site, near Calgary
- Father Lacombe Chapel / Chapelle du Père Lacombe - missionary church build by Father Albert Lacombe in 1861 in Saint Albert, Alberta
- Frank Slide Interpretive Centre - site of rock slide tragety in 1903, in Frank, Alberta
- Fort George and Buckingham House - fur trade post, near Elk Point, Alberta
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump - (also UNESCO World Heritage Site and National Historic Site of Canada) - First Nations' history, near Fort Macleod, Alberta
- Historic Dunvegan - fur trade post and mission, near Fairview, Alberta
- Leitch Collieries - coal mine, Crowsnest Pass, Alberta
- Oil Sands Discovery Centre - oil sands mining display, Fort McMurray, Alberta
- Okotoks Erratic - giant rock left by glaciers, Okotoks, Alberta
- Remington Carriage Museum - collection of horse-drawn forms of trasnportation, Cardston, Alberta
- Reynolds-Alberta Museum - machinery and transportation, aviation hall of fame, Wetskawin, Alberta
- Royal Alberta Museum - official provincial museum, Edmonton
- Royal Tyrrell Museum - dinosaurs and palaeontology, near Drumheller, Alberta
- Rutherford House - home of Albert's first premier, Edmonton
- Stephansson House - home of famous Icelandic poet Stephan G. Stephansson, near Red Deer, Alberta
- Turner Valley Gas Plant - site of early oil discovery, near Calgary
- Tyrrell Field Station - field station of Tyrrell Museum, near Brooks, Alberta
- Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village - recreation of early Ukrainian settlement in Canada, near Edmonton
- Victoria Settlement - early pioneer settlement, near Smoky Lake, Alberta
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