Coleman is a scenic town of about 2500 people located in the Crowsnest Pass in the Rocky Mountains of southern Alberta near the border with British Columbia, in Canada. For the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass please see Crowsnest Pass Alberta Crowsnest Pass (sometimes referred to as Crow's Nest Pass Mountain peaks of the Rocky Mountains The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a Mountain range in western North America. Alberta (ælˈbɝtə is one of Canada's prairie provinces. It became a province on September 1 1905 British Columbia (ˌbrɪtɨʃ kəˈlʌmbiə ( BC) ( (la Colombie-Britannique C Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page It is served by the Crowsnest Highway and the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Crowsnest Highway, also known as the Interprovincial or in British Columbia the Southern Trans-Provincial, is a 1163 km (722 mile long principal It is part of the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass (population: about 6500). The Municipality of Crowsnest Pass is a Special Municipality geographically located in the Crowsnest Pass of the
History
In 1903 a new townsite was laid out a few kilometres west of Blairmore, Alberta, to service a new coal mine operated by the International Coal and Coke Company. Blairmore (population 4695 is a town in the Crowsnest Pass of the Rocky Mountains of southern Alberta, Canada Initial names of Paulson’s Camp or McGillivray Hill were rejected by the post office, settling on Coleman (after Coleman Flumerfelt, the daughter of the mine owner A. C. Flumerfelt). A feature of the town was the mine’s 100 (later 216) coke ovens located at the edge of town, which operated from 1906 to 1952. The town grew rapidly, surpassing its neighbor Blairmore as the largest in the region. Coleman boasted a successful opera house from 1908 until it burned down in 1948.
Coleman persevered through strikes (1911 and 1932), floods (1923 and 1942) and fires (1948). As the coal mines in the region gradually closed, Coleman's commercial importance waned in favor of Blairmore. Coleman joined four other local towns in amalgamation into the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass in 1979. The Municipality of Crowsnest Pass is a Special Municipality geographically located in the Crowsnest Pass of the
Coleman's coal mining heritage is evident in its several historic buildings, a regional museum, the ruins of its coal plant and coke ovens, several nearby abandoned mines and the "biggest piggy bank in the world" made from a 36-inch gauge air driven thermos bottle mine locomotive. For the song by 50 Cent see Piggy Bank (song. "Money Box" redirects here A locomotive is a railway Vehicle that provides the motive power for a Train.
A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system.Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic