LINKS
Website addresses are included for organizations associated with heritage or historical preservation and commemoration, or that have a community association with the Bearspaw area. Website addresses may be changed over time, so if any of these do not work then search on the name of the organization to find their website. Some relevant organizations do not yet have websites.
OTHER LOCAL HERITAGE ORGANIZATIONS
- Cochrane Historical and Archival Preservation Society – http://www.chapscochrane.com/
- Cochrane and Area Heritage Association – http://www.perrenoudranche.com/caha.htm
- Canadian Museum of Making – www.canadianmuseumofmaking.org
PROVINCIAL PARK IN THE AREA THAT DOES HERITAGE RESEARCH AND HAS INTERPRETIVE SIGNS
- Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park – http://www.grpf.ca/
REGIONAL OR PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES
- Bert Sheppard Stockmen’s Foundation Library And Archives – http://www.smflibrary.ca/library.html
- Glenbow Archives – www.glenbow.org
- Provincial Archives of Alberta – http://culture.alberta.ca/archives/
SOME ON-LINE EXHIBITS AND RESOURCES
- Virtual Museum of Canada (many interesting online exhibits including one on one room country schools) – http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/
- Our Roots (a variety of historic books that are scanned and available online) – http://www.ourroots.ca/
- Historical Society of Alberta (see contact information the Society’s chapters across Alberta chapters) – http://albertahistory.org/
PROVINCIAL, COUNTY, OR CITY HERITAGE MANAGEMENT
- Historic Resources Management Branch, Government of Alberta – http://www.culture.alberta.ca/heritage/resourcemanagement/default.aspx
- City of Calgary (information on heritage buildings in Calgary, and the City Archives) – www.calgary.ca
- Rocky View County (learn about Rocky View county and potential funding for heritage projects) – http://www.rockyview.ca/
- Town of Cochrane – http://www.cochrane.ca
OTHER BEARSPAW RESOURCES
- Bearspaw Lifestyle Centre (Has a heritage room with historical photographs of the area, and a coverlet owned by the Bearspaw Historical Society, that was made in the 1940s by area residents to raise funds for the Red Cross) – http://www.bearspawlc.ca/
- My Bearspaw.ca (Information on activities in Bearspaw) – http://www.mybearspaw.ca/
REFERENCES
Most of the material presented in this section is from the 1920 Bearspaw School Oral History Project Report – 2011, Phase One (1920s to the Early 1950s) by Elisa Hart and the Bearspaw Historical Society (2012), and Taming the Prairie Wool, Glendale Women’s Institute (1965).