Lucky Strike, Alberta facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Lucky Strike
Locality
Lucky Strike, Alberta Location in Alberta
Country	Canada
Province	Alberta
Region	Southern Alberta
Census division	2
Municipal district	County of Warner No. 5
Time zone	UTC−7 (MST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−6 (MDT)
Postal code span	T0K 2P0
Area code(s)	+1-403
Highways	Highway 501
Waterways	Smith Coulee

Lucky Strike is a small community, called a locality, in Alberta, Canada. It is located in the County of Warner No. 5, right on Highway 501. You can find it about 26 kilometers (16 miles) east of Milk River and 18 kilometers (11 miles) south of Foremost.

Learning in Lucky Strike

The Lucky Strike area once had its own school! The Lucky Strike No. 2589 school district was created on November 9, 1911. The school building was a one room schoolhouse, which means all students, no matter their age, learned together in a single classroom. This school used to stand at a specific location known as township 17-3-11-W4.

Cool Places to Visit Nearby

The area around Lucky Strike has some really interesting attractions. Many of these places teach you about history, dinosaurs, and nature!

Devil's Coulee Dinosaur Museum

The Devil's Coulee Dinosaur Heritage Museum is a must-see for dinosaur fans! It shows off amazing finds like a Hadrosaur (a type of duck-billed dinosaur) nest and even a dinosaur embryo! You can also see ancient fossils and cool dinosaur models. This museum is located in Warner.

Galt Historic Railway Park

The Galt Historic Railway Park is a fun museum that shows what life and travel were like between the 1880s and 1920s. It's set up in a restored train station from 1890, which used to be in Coutts, Alberta, Canada, and Sweetgrass, Montana, USA. This station was moved to its current spot near Stirling in 2000 and is still being improved.

Stirling Agricultural Village

Stirling Agricultural Village is a very special place. It's a National Historic Site of Canada! This means it's recognized as important to Canada's history. Stirling is one of only three communities in Canada to be named a National Historic Site because its original settlement plan, based on the Plat of Zion model, is so well preserved.

Inside the village, you can visit the Michelsen Farmstead. This is a fully restored home from the 1900s that shows what rural life was like in Alberta during the 1930s. It became a Provincial Historic Site in 2001.

Warner's Historic Grain Elevators

The Warner elevator row is a unique sight! It's a line of old wooden grain elevators. Six of these tall structures still stand together along the Canadian Pacific Railway on the east side of the village of Warner. These rows of elevators were once very common across Alberta, but most have been taken down. The Warner row is the very last one left in Alberta! There are only two such rows remaining in all of Canada, with the other being in Inglis, Manitoba.

Waterton Lakes National Park

Waterton Lakes National Park is a beautiful national park located in the very southwest corner of Alberta. It's about 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Cardston. This park also borders Glacier National Park in Montana, USA. Waterton Lakes was Canada's fourth National Park, created way back in 1895. Here, the Rocky Mountains suddenly rise up from the flat prairies. Among the mountain peaks are the three Waterton Lakes, which were carved out of the rock by ancient glaciers.

Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park

Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park is one of the largest protected prairie areas in Alberta's park system. It's important for two main reasons: it's a nature preserve and it protects the largest collection of rock art made by the Plains People. There are over 50 rock art sites here, with thousands of figures carved or painted on rocks. The park also has many archeological sites where scientists study the past.