Historic Sites
A visit to the Buffalo Lake/Tail Creek area allows one to explore the
historic sites that illustrate the days gone by.
An historical stop along the highway details the purpose of The
Content/Buffalo Lake Trail: "A system of Indian and whiskey trails
linking Fort MacLeod, Gleichen and Calgary in the south and Fort
Edmonton and Fort Saskatchewan in the North converged in the vicinity of
Tail Creek and Buffalo Lake. During the 1870s large Métis buffalo hunt
communities were established seasonally in this area, with Tail Creek
settlement having the winter population of as many as 2,000 inhabitants.
In the farm settlement period of the early 20th century, the village of
Content emerged as a local center in 1904 and served the area to 1913.
Bypassed to the west by the Grand Trunk railway in 1910, the village
declined and eventually disappeared."
In connection with the Rosebud and Blackfoot trails to the south, the
Content or Buffalo Lake Trail that passed by this place linked the
region to the Calgary-Edmonton Trail at Lacombe by way of another trail
directly from Tail Creek. The Content or Buffalo Lake Trail is an apt
reminder of transportation before the railway age. There was a road
north of the lake from Meeting Creek across to the Battle River called
Dryed Meat Haul Road.
Today all the remains of Tail Creek's s colourful
past is its cemetery.
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The People of Tail Creek
Victoria Callihoo (1861-1966)
Historic Sites
Other Sites around Buffalo Lake
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