Canmore, Banff & Kananaskis History Pages - Kananaskis Country

The Kananaskis Valley, has its share of pioneer stories of half-crazed gold hunters, the most sensational being the legend of the Lost Lemon Mine: a tale of discovery, murder and madness involving two prospectors named Lemon and Blackjack. Legend has it they found a huge seam of gold in the mountains in 1870 but got into a violent argument, ending with Lemon splitting his partner's head open with an axe in the middle of the night. The gold was never recovered nor mined, and to this day, the story of the Lost Lemon Mine is veiled in mystery, but still generating ongoing camp fire theories and debate.

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	Kananaskis Valley is a place of legends Canmore, Alberta,	From the parking lot at Ribbon Creek, a popular recreational area in Alberta's mountainous Kananaskis Valley, a large open meadow can be seen along the eastern slopes of Mount Allan, the spectacular venue for alpine events during the 1988 Winter Olympics. At the eastern base of the mountain, a half kilometer from the parking lot near Highway 40, hikers sometimes wander into another clearing; a narrow avenue sprinkled with gravel and chunks of coal. At the far end behind bushes and trees, there are odd cement foundations and a cluster of rusted pipes popping out of the ground. A further search in the bushes uncovers the remains of tarpaper shacks and scores of rusted-out tin cans. Contact Kananaskis Valley is a place of legends	403-678-2244
	Ozada: Ribbon Crick's coal processing community Canmore, Alberta,	The decision in 1909 not to develop the Kananaskis coal field before Nordegg meant the company had to improvise its mining operations when strip mining began at Ribbon Creek in 1947. The biggest obstacles for production were processing and transportation; there was no spur line built to haul the coal 35 kilometres north for processing on a site along the main CPR track. "To haul the coal out, it was a 22 mile truck ride on a gravel road with lots of steep climbs, especially at Barrier Hill," says Zupido D'Amico, the mine's manager who made the treacherous trip regularly. "The cost was prohibitive." Contact Ozada: Ribbon Crick's coal processing community	403-678-2244

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