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Who is heritage crowsnest?

Heritage Crowsnest is small-town tourist attractions celebrating stories larger than life. From rum running to tragic explosions, visitors to Alberta’s Crowsnest Pass are captivated by the area’s unique industrial history, exciting criminal ties and unforgettable landscape that has drawn people to the Crowsnest Pass for centuries.

The Crowsnest museum & archives

The Crowsnest Museum, located in the downtown Coleman National Historic Site of Canada and boasts of a collection of over nearly 100,000 extensive artifacts and archival materials and has a large repository of approximately 60,000 images in its collection.

The Alberta provincial police barracks

Explore the 'Scene of the Crime' where Lawson lived, worked and was killed. Journey through Alberta's prohibition history, and decide for yourself "who done it" at the scene of Canada's most infamous rum running murder.

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