Joni Mitchell
Notable Resident of the Canadian Badlands
Joni Mitchell was born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7,
1943, in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada, to Bill Anderson and Myrtle
Anderson. Joni Mitchell is a musician, songwriter and painter. She
began singing in small nightclubs in western Canada and then
busking on the streets of Toronto. In the mid- 1960s she left for
New york city where she finally achieved fame. First as a
songwriter them a singer. Blue, her starkly personal 1971 album was
voted #30 in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Albums of All
Time" list of 2003. Rolling Stone also called Mitchell "one of the
greatest songwriters ever," She has since stopped recording and is
now focusing more on painting.
This cache is part of the Legacy Trail produced by the Canadian
Badlands Geocaching Association for the Best of the Bad Mega
Event.
The Legacy Trail
The Legacy Trail is a collection of geocaches that circles its
way over 100 miles on country roads traversing some of the most
scenic and spectacular landscape in this part of the Canadian
Badlands. A large number of caches in a variety of types, sizes and
difficulty are placed on the Trail. Every town, village and hamlet
in the Canadian Badlands has its own cache. Some caches were named
after local historic events and people, as well as celebrities who
grew up in this area. Some caches were sponsored by geocachers who
attended the Best of the Bad Mega Event. The Legacy Trail was
produced by the Canadian Badlands Geocaching Association for the
Best of the Bad Mega Event.
The Canadian Badlands
The Canadian Badlands in Alberta are like no other place on
earth, home to the world's most extensive dinosaur bonebeds,
badlands and hoodoos, and a world-class museum that shelters a 75
million-year-old legacy. The region is rich in culturally and
historically significant sites that tell the story of the First
Nations people and early settlers, and of a complex and diverse
modern society that is still deeply rooted in the spirit of the
frontier.
