What is so significant about this little village?
Prehistoric times:
If you were out walking on the rough terrain of a deep coulee, what would you be looking for; perhaps a safe place to put your foot, a prickly pear cactus, the scenery but not the fact that the tiny rock beside you was different from all the rest.
For a young lady, out for a walk in May 1987, it was about to be significant paleontological discovery. Wendy Sloboda, a 19 year old amateur paleontologist, had a feeling that she had found something very special. This was no ordinary rock! After checking with specialists at the University of Calgary and Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller it was determined that she had found dinosaur egg shell just laying on the surface of the coulee.
The egg shell was from the Hadrosaur or duck-billed dinosaur. The next find, in the same area, was that of an egg with a dinosaur embryo, then whole nests containing eggs and even whole nesting sites with multiple nests! The site is estimated to be over 75 million years old.
Historic times & the early settlers:
As you were driving to this site you passed what is known as “Elevator Row”. According to Wikipedia, “The Warner elevator row is a row of historic wood-cribed grain elevators. A total of six elevators still stand in a row from south to north alongside the Canadian Pacific Railway on the east entrance of the village of Warner.
Due to the loss of a vast amount of Alberta's many grain elevators, the elevator row in Warner remains the very last row of elevators in Alberta. Only two elevator rows remain in Canada, Warner's row and the elevators in Inglis, Manitoba.”
Modern times:
A few years ago the community got together with the school and the school board to develop the first “Girls Hockey School”. This has lead to major improvements to their hockey arena, to the addition of dormitories, and a new sense of pride in their community as well as increasing the high school population. They have had girls from all over Canada, USA and Europe attend the hockey school.
At this location is a public park with picnic tables and displays of farm equipment from earlier times that you are welcome to visit.
You are welcome to park at this location while you are looking for the cache and touring the displays. You will see that the location of the cache is quite open, so please watch for muggles and try not to disturb the camouflage. NOTE: You do not need to disturb any of the equipment to find the cache.