On the road to Alaska - Ontario to Alberta

Another week on the road.  We continue to move westward and have made it as far as Alberta.  The weather has given us everything from snow and sleet to 80ºs and sunny. We’ve crossed the longitudinal center of Canada; visited the city of Winnipeg; learned about the Hudson Bay Company at Lower Fort Garry; visited Bushwakker Brewing in Regina Saskatchewan; and traveled back in time to the Late Cretaceous Period at Dinosaur Provincial Park in the badlands of Alberta. 

Kakabeka Falls near Thunder Bay, Ontario

Canadian Museum of Human Rights, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Lower Fort Garry - a major trans-shipping location for the Hudson Bay Company.  Goods
were shipped north via the Red River to York Factory which is on Hudson Bay.

The kitchen at the main house in Lower Fort Garry.  Hudson Bay Company had only
one female employee.  She was a scullery maid that worked in this house.

Celina in the doorway to one of the bastions at Lower Fort Garry

This is where Brett can be found most evenings.  He offloads the pictures
from the camera, sorts and labels them all.  While he is doing that, I use my iPad
to make notes about what we did that day.

These are a couple of the many, many grain elevators we saw on our way through Manitoba
and Saskatchewan.  For many hours we saw cattle and grain fields and not much else!

The rest of these images are from Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta.  This park and the surrounding area has the highest concentration of late Cretaceous (72-76 millions year ago) dinosaur fossils in the world.  Many of the dinosaur skeletons found in places like the American Museum of Natural History in New York came from here.  The land continues to erode and you can find small fragments of dinosaur fossils all over.  Not only that, but the terrain is amazing. - the Canadian Badlands. 

A view of the campground.  You can see our camper in the middle, just in front of the trees

Sunrise

Out for a hike 

Out on a guided tour

Views along the guided tour

A fossil we found while out on a guided tour of the preserve.
This one was just a bit larger than my index finger.

Our guide Amber and one of the skeletons.  It is lying where it was
found.  The building was built around it to protect it from the elements.

Views from our evening walk

Sagebrush

 Our westward trek will soon be turning more northerly as we run in to the Canadian Rockies in the next day or so.  We are looking forward to seeing the mountains after several days of driving through the flat terrain of Manitoba and Saskatchewan.