ROAD TRIP: A BBM Game

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Donnelly, AB

The Village of Donnelly is located approximately 5 km east of Falher, Alberta which is approximately 115 km northeast of Grande Prairie near the junction of Highway 2 and 49. Donnelly has a population of 377 people (2004 stats) and is a farming community.

Donnelly was named after an official in the Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway, when the station was established in 1915. A few years later, in 1917 Donnelly had its first post office with A. Cote' the first postmaster. In 1956 Donnelly became a village.

Mud Bog Competition is held each year the Saturday and Sunday around Father's Day in Donnelly. The competition attracts quite a crowd, located next to the Sportex on the west side of the village. Ball diamonds and tennis courts are also located here.  Every second year a the Smoky River Agricultural Fair is held in Donnelly in mid August, and the Annual Father's Day Demolition Derby is held each year in June.


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[Fran]

Burns, WY

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Steele Creek Community, TX

Settlement in this area along Steele Creek began in the 1850s. Known by several names over the years - including Steele Creek, Tidwell, Shady Grove and Pleasant Grove - the community centered around a Methodist church named for the Rev. David J. Tidwell (1802-1883) who settled here with his family in 1853. A post office was established in 1856 with David Tidwell as postmaster, and soon the settlement included two general stores, the church, homes and a school. Although burials in the community cemetery probably began earlier, the oldest documented grave here is that of Nancy Hogan, wife of J. M. Hogan, who died in February 1858. The cemetery includes about 175 marked graves, and an unknown number of unmarked ones. Inscriptions on the gravestones provide a testament to the sometimes harsh living conditions in frontier Texas and document a large number of infant and child deaths, as well as apparent epidemics that took the lives of several members of individual families. Located on land formerly owned by the Chisum family, the four-acre graveyard was deeded to the citizens living along Steele Creek by Mary Chisum, widow of J. R Chisum, in 1886. Initially known as Steele Creek Cemetery, it eventually took on the Tidwell name. Records indicate that burials ceased to occur here in the 1930s, and the site was largely abandoned until members of an association of Tidwell community descendants was formed in the 1980s to assume maintenance of the site.

[Meryl]

Crimson Dawn, WY

[Meryl]

North Loop, TX


Time for another jump start so we can hit the Road again! 

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Provost, AB

Provost is a town in central Alberta, Canada. It is located at the junction of Highway 13 and Highway 899. It is situated 19 km (12 mi) west of the Alberta-Saskatchewan border.  In 2006, Provost had a population of 2,072.

There are two schools in Provost: Provost public and St. Thomas Aquinas.

The economic bases of Provost are agricultural and oilfield.

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Troy, TX

Nothing is left of the town. Not even a cemetery is shown on the TxDoT county map for Freestone County.

Troy, was also known as Pine Bluff. There is currently another Troy, Texas off Interstate 35 between Temple and Waco. The Troy discussed here was on the Trinity River and near what is presently Fairfield Lake.

The town started around 1847 with a dozen families who thought the location on the river ideal for a town. A man named Bateman is said to be the town's founder. Troy was granted a post office in 1850 and it closed 16 years later.

Troy enjoyed a short period of prosperity when its location as a shipping point on the river made it the most important town in Freestone County. The rival port of Magnolia (Anderson County) stole the promise of greatness from Troy. Troy was soon dropped from many maps and by 1936 it was just a memory.

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[Meryl]

Quinif, TX

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Fort McMurray, AB


Fort McMurray, is a community in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, in the northeastern part of Alberta, Canada. Although it is commonly referred to and thought of as being a city, Fort McMurray is not incorporated. Thus, Fort McMurray has the status of being the largest unincorporated "city" in Alberta.

Fort McMurray is 435 kilometres (270 mi) northeast of Edmonton, Alberta on Highway 63, about 60 kilometres (37 mi) west of the Saskatchewan border, nestled in the boreal forest at the confluence of the Athabasca River and the Clearwater River.

Fort McMurray is a multicultural community, attracting people from all corners of Canada and the world. Albertans make up almost half the number of migrants to Fort McMurray, followed by 17% of people originating from the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Were it a city, it would be the fifth largest in Alberta (after Edmonton, Calgary, Red Deer and Lethbridge).

Fort McMurray is considered the heart of one of Alberta's (and Canada's) major hubs of oil production, located near the Athabasca Oil Sands. Besides the oil sands, the economy also relies on natural gas and oil pipelines, forestry and tourism. The two largest oil sand mining companies are Syncrude and Suncor Energy.

Fort McMurray's growth is characteristic of a boomtown; one of the area's unofficial nicknames is "Fort McMoney." Housing prices and rents are far higher in Fort McMurray than one would expect in such a remote area. In 2006, Fort McMurray had the highest prices in Alberta.


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Jamaica Beach, TX


The town (which is said to be a former Karankawa cemetery) was only developed in 1957. Intended as a resort/ marina, the plot was divided into 2,000 lots. It was incorporated in 1975 when there were 141 people residing there. The population was 624 in 1990 which increased to 1,075 for the 2000 Census.