Provincial historic sites of Alberta

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Frank Slide, Turtle Mountain, Alberta, Canada

Head Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

Some of the displays inside the Royal Tyrrell Museum

Home Grain Co. wooden cribbed elevator at the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village

Provincial historic sites of Alberta are museums and historic sites run by the Government of Alberta.^[1]

Only sites owned by the provincial government and run as a functioning historic site or museum are known as Provincial Historic Sites. Buildings and sites owned by private citizens and companies or other levels or branches of government may gain one of two levels of historic designation, "Registered Historic Resource" or "Provincial Historic Resource".^[2] A concentration of several heritage buildings can be designated a "Provincial Historic Area", and there are two such areas in Alberta: downtown Fort Macleod and Old Strathcona in Edmonton. Historic designation in Alberta is governed by the Historic Resources Act.^[3] The province also lists buildings deemed historically significant by municipal governments on the Alberta Register of Historic Places, which is also part of the larger Canadian Register of Historic Places although this does not imply provincial or federal government status or protection.^[4] The Alberta Main Street Program helps to preserve historic buildings in the downtowns of smaller communities.^[5] The Heritage Survey Program is a survey of 80,000 historic buildings in Alberta, with no protective status.^[6]

The official list as per the government of Alberta is:^[7]

Brooks Aqueduct, irrigation museum near Brooks
Carmangay Tipi Rings - archaeological tipi ring site at Carmangay, near Calgary
Father Lacombe Chapel / Chapelle du Père Lacombe - missionary church built by Father Albert Lacombe in 1861 in St. Albert
Frank Slide Interpretive Centre - site of rock slide tragedy in 1903, in Frank
Fort George and Buckingham House - fur trade post, near Elk Point
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump - (also UNESCO World Heritage Site and National Historic Site of Canada) - First Nations' history, near Fort Macleod
Historic Dunvegan - fur trade post and mission, near Fairview
Leitch Collieries - coal mine, Crowsnest Pass
Lougheed House - sandstone mansion from 1891 in Calgary.
Oil Sands Discovery Centre - oil sands mining display, Fort McMurray
Okotoks Erratic - giant rock left by glaciers, Okotoks
Remington Carriage Museum - collection of horse-drawn forms of transportation, Cardston
Reynolds-Alberta Museum - machinery and transportation, aviation hall of fame, Wetaskiwin
Royal Alberta Museum - official provincial museum (formerly Provincial Museum of Alberta), Edmonton
Royal Tyrrell Museum - dinosaurs and palaeontology, near Drumheller
Rutherford House - home of Albert's first premier, University of Alberta, Edmonton
Stephansson House - home of famous Icelandic poet Stephan G. Stephansson, near Red Deer
Turner Valley Gas Plant - site of early oil discovery, near Calgary
Tyrrell Field Station - field station of Tyrrell Museum, near Brooks
Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village - recreation of early Ukrainian settlement in Canada, near Edmonton
Victoria Settlement - early pioneer settlement, near Smoky Lake

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For a partial list of privately owned buildings or other sites that are designated as "Provincial Historic Resources" see:

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Protected areas in Alberta

World Heritage Sites	Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks Dinosaur Provincial Park Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park Wood Buffalo National Park

National parks	Banff Elk Island Jasper Waterton Lakes Wood Buffalo

Provincial parks, wildlands & wildernesses	Canmore Nordic Centre Cypress Hills Dry Island Buffalo Jump Fish Creek Hay-Zama Lakes Kananaskis Country Lakeland Vermilion Willmore Wilderness Writing-on-Stone more...

Urban parks	Calgary Zoo Devonian Gardens Edmonton Valley Zoo Edworthy Park Mill Woods Park Muttart Conservatory North Saskatchewan River Valley Nose Hill Oldman River Valley Pearce Estate Wetland

Museums & historic sites	Alberta Central Railway Museum Atlas Coal Mine Canadian Grain Elevator Discovery Center Canadian Tractor Museum Cold Lake Air Force Ellis Bird Farm Fort Calgary Fort Edmonton Park Fort Victoria Fort Whoop-Up Frank Slide Galt Historic Railway Park Heritage Acres Farm Museum Heritage Park Krause Milling Co. Pioneer Acres Prairie Elevator Museum Remington Carriage Museum Reynolds-Alberta Royal Alberta Royal Tyrrell Scandia Eastern Irrigation District Museum South Peace Centennial Museum Spruce Grove Grain Elevator Museum St. Albert Grain Elevator Park Ukrainian Village Warner elevator row Whyte National historic sites Provincial historic sites

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Provincial historic sites of Alberta

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