Lucky Strike, Alberta Explained

Official Name:	Lucky Strike
Settlement Type:	Locality
Pushpin Map:	Alberta
Pushpin Label Position:	none
Pushpin Map Caption:	Location of Lucky Strike in Alberta
Pushpin Mapsize:	200
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	Canada
Subdivision Type1:	Province
Subdivision Name1:	Alberta
Subdivision Type2:	Region
Subdivision Name2:	Southern Alberta
Subdivision Type3:	Census division
Subdivision Name3:	2
Subdivision Type4:	Municipal district
Subdivision Name4:	County of Warner No. 5
Leader Title:	Governing body
Leader Name:	County of Warner No. 5 Council
Leader Title3:	MLA
Established Title:	Founded
Established Title2:	Incorporated
Timezone:	MST
Utc Offset:	−7
Timezone Dst:	MDT
Utc Offset Dst:	−6
Coordinates:	49.2034°N -111.4892°W
Postal Code Type:	Postal code span
Postal Code:	T0K 2P0
Area Code:	+1-403
Blank Name:	Highways
Blank Info:	Highway 501
Blank1 Name:	Waterways
Blank1 Info:	Smith Coulee

Lucky Strike is a locality in the County of Warner No. 5, Alberta, Canada located on Highway 501, approximately 26km (16miles) east of the Town of Milk River and 18km (11miles) south of the Village of Foremost.

Education

Lucky Strike No. 2589 was formed on November 9, 1911. The Lucky Strike school was a one room schoolhouse that once stood at township 17-3-11-W4.^[1]

Devil's Coulee Dinosaur Heritage Museum:The Devil's Coulee Dinosaur Heritage Museum^[2] features a Hadrosaur (duck-billed dinosaur) nest and embryo, ancient fossils, dinosaur models, located in the Warner.

Galt Historic Railway Park:The Galt Historic Railway Park located 1 km north of Stirling is another popular museum which displays of life and travel in the 1880s to 1920s are set up in the restored 1890 North West Territories International Train Station from Coutts, Alberta, Canada and Sweetgrass, Montana, USA. The station was moved to the current location near Stirling in 2000 and is added onto every year. Future plans to move the 1925 Oglvie grain elevator from Wrentham for display along the station in the 36acres park is still in the planning stages.

See also: List of attractions and landmarks in Stirling, Alberta and Stirling Agricultural Village. Stirling Agricultural Village is a National Historic Site of Canada, and was listed as one of only three communities in Canada designated as a National Historic Site because of the community's well preserved settlement pattern that follows the Plat of Zion model.^[3] Located within the village are two museums the Michelsen Farmstead a totally restored 1900s home showcasing rural life in Alberta in the 1930s. Listed as a Provincial Historic Site in 2001.,^[4] and the Galt Historic Railway Park.

Warner elevator row:The Warner elevator row is a row of historic wood-cribbed grain elevators. A total of six elevators still stand in a row from south to north alongside the Canadian Pacific Railway on the east entrance of the village of Warner. Due to the loss of a vast amount of Alberta's many grain elevators, the elevator row in Warner remains the very last row of elevators in Alberta. Only two elevator rows remain in Canada, Warner's row and the elevators in Inglis, Manitoba.

Waterton Lakes National ParkWaterton Lakes National Park is a National Park located in the extreme southwest corner of Alberta, Canada, 40 km west of Cardston, and borders Glacier National Park in Montana, USA. Waterton Lakes was Canada's fourth National Park formed in 1895. The Rocky Mountains rise suddenly out of the rolling prairies in the park. Amid the peaks are the three Waterton Lakes, carved out of the rock by ancient glaciers.

Writing On Stone Provincial ParkWriting-on-Stone Provincial Park, is one of the largest areas of protected prairie in the Alberta park system, and serves as both a nature preserve and protection for the largest concentration of rock art, created by Plains People. There are over 50 rock art sites, with thousands of figures, as well as numerous archeological sites.

http://ww2.glenbow.org/search/archivesSchoolResults.aspx Lucky Strike S.D. No. 2589
Web site: Devil's Coulee Dinosaur Heritage Museum . Village of Warner . Warner, Alberta . 2007-08-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070729024805/http://www.devilscoulee.com/Main.html . 2007-07-29 . dead .
Web site: Village of Stirling National Historic Site . Parks Canada . Parks Canada . June 2007 . 2007-11-13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110605081128/http://www.pc.gc.ca/docs/r/ab/sites/stirling_e.asp . 2011-06-05 .
Web site: Michelsen Farmstead. Village of Stirling. Stirling, Alberta. 2007-11-13.