Stories
Every item in Histellis has a story to tell!
Explore the narratives and connections that bring our Canadian heritage to life.
Baillie, the K9 search and rescue dog from Alberta
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Baillie is a Canmore-based search and rescue dog. She goes into potentially unsafe structures after a disaster to find people, then she reports back to her handler Kit Huffer by barking. She used the equipment in training and in the field as part of search and rescue (SAR) operations in Canmore, Alberta (2013-2016).
Baillie had been deployed with this gear in the field a total of three times: du...
Inuit Storytelling through Fibre Arts
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Explore the stories told via the parkas and amautis of the Inuit communities of Canada. Both traditional and modern fibre arts are featured in this collection.
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Cretaceous Dinosaurs of Alberta
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During the Late Cretaceous period (approximately 76–66 million years ago), Alberta was a lush, subtropical coastal plain. This environment, situated between the rising Rocky Mountains and the Western Interior Seaway, provided ideal conditions for preserving one of the world's most diverse dinosaur fossil records.
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Gastropoda: on the Snail Trail
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Welcome, young explorers, to the wonderful world of Gastropoda! Did you know that "Gastropod" actually means "stomach-foot"? That is because snails and slugs carry their whole bodies on one big, wiggly muscle!