Our next stop is Drumheller, World famous for coal mines and for large amount of dinosaur fossils in the area.  Many of the US Museums were taking dinosaurs fossils from this area until the Canadian Government passed laws stopping any of these artifacts from leaving the country. 

Friday we visited an old coal mine and had a tour of the tipple and the mine. Coal is no longer mined in this area.  On saturday we visited the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, it is a museum that hosts Canada's largest collection of dinosaur fossils. We were  very fortunate to get a behind the scene tour of the projects they were working on and how they recovered the fossils from the rock. We also got to see some of their extensive inventory of fossils.

The coal tipple where the coal was sorted and loaded into boxcars and on trucks.

View inside the coal tipple looking up the conveyor belt.

Looking out the tipple window at the conveyor housing

 going up and thru the mountain to the top.

We would soon walk up beside the conveyor thru the mountain to the mine entrance.

View from the tipple.

Inside the tipple going up .

Inside the shaft going thru the mountain.

Entrance to the mine.

Pachyrhinosaurus skull complete found in Drumheller.

Fossil waiting to be removed from the rock.

Museum display.

Museum display.

Museum display.