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more and more Cochrane residents
now commute into nearby Calgary, just
20min away, to earn their living.
Rocky Mountain House
Despite its evocative name, Rocky
Mountain House is not a picturesque
log cabin in the woods but rather a
gateway town into the majestic Rocky
Mountains.
The Cochrane Ranche Provincial
Historic Site
commemorates the
establishment in 1881 of the Cochrane
Ranche Company by Québec business-
man Senator Matthew Cochrane, and
the birth of Alberta's cattle industry.
The company controlled 189,000ha of
sweeping grasslands which, along with
three other ranches including the Bar U
Ranch, covered most of Alberta.
The Rocky Mountain House National
Historic Park
is interesting be-
cause it exemplifi es, perhaps better
than any other historic site, the inextric-
able link between the fur trade and the
discovery and exploration of Canada.
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