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Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum
The Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum is a paleontology museum located in Wembley, Alberta, Canada. The museum is situated within a constructed in 2015, and is named for renowned Canadian paleontologist Philip J. Currie. History The Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum is located near the Pipestone Creek bonebed, part of the Wapiti Formation which contains fossils from the Late Cretaceous to early Paleocene epoch. The bonebed was discovered by local school teacher Al Lakusta in 1974. Lakusta found the bones belonging to ''Pachyrhinosaurus'', a type of horned dinosaur which was named ''Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai'' after Lakusta. The Pipestone Creek bonebed was found to have thousands of fossils and is considered one of the densest fossil sites in the world, and subsequently the area would come to be known as ''The River of Death''. Other fossils found in the bonebed include '' hadrosaurs'', ''tyrannosaurs'', '' nodosaurs'', '' plesiosaurs'', and ''pterosaurs''. The River of Death and D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wembley, Alberta
Wembley is a town in northern Alberta, Canada. It is approximately west of Grande Prairie at the junction of Highway 43 and Highway 724. History Land around Wembley was surveyed for homesteads in 1909, settlers beginning to arrive in 1910. The railroad survey was completed from Grande Prairie to Pouce Coupe in 1916 and the townsite of Wembley was surveyed in 1923. The railway arrived in 1924. The present town-site is four and a half miles south of the original hamlet of Lake Saskatoon and when the railway arrived in 1924 many buildings were hauled over the four and one half miles of snow-covered trails from Lake Saskatoon to their new foundations in Wembley. The name Wembley was chosen by the Lake Saskatoon Board of Trade at the time of the British Empire Exposition at Wembley in England. The post office opened in November 1924, the first postmaster being RB Sinclair. Wembley reached village status January 3, 1928 and town status August 1, 1980. Demographics In the 2021 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |