Ghost Towns Of Southern Alberta : Volume Two

This slender second volume in Fryer’s series gathers concise historical sketches of a range of now-vanished or greatly diminished settlements scattered across southern Alberta. Within its 62 pages the author revisits former coal camps, ranching centres, trading posts, and policing outposts, offering compact accounts of places such as Lille, Passburg, Burmis, Maycroft Mountain Mill, Beaver Mines, and Fishburn. Brief notices also touch on resource-driven locales like Oil City and the community at Haneyville, as well as Indigenous and frontier sites including Fort Standoff and the NWMP post at Writing-on-Stone. Additional entries trace the rise and decline of Little Chicago–Little New York, Spitzee Post, the Kennedy Trading Post, and several other short-lived prairie settlements.