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Alberta Tour Athabasca and Lac La Biche

 Another tour of a chunk of Canada, well Alberta. Unedited. Have a read! So we went North in my first entry, now let’s go “east” Or as east as my travels have taken me more than once. I mean yes I have been to Saskatchewan. Saskatoon actually has some nice municipal golf courses, who knew! Anyways we start out leaving St Albert on Hwy2 heading north. Briefly past Mornville on the right, which I hear has a decent country bar. Or did many years ago, past the Legal   (La-Gal) turnoff. Not Legal, like it should be, I blame the French that live there and to the Clyde corner as locals call it. Turn right here, left is to Westlock and that’s another entry. A few minutes on hwy 18, then back onto 2 until we hit Athabasca. Stop #1 on our journey east. Founded in 1877 as an HBC trading post (Like everywhere) on the river became a major travel point. Like many places people seeking the gold rush passed through. RCMP moved in 1892. 1913 major fire burns down most of downtown BUT it was ...