County of Grande Prairie | 3
Confucius once astutely advised, “To define the future, study the past.” And
in the Canadian community of Grande Prairie, a new opportunity to study
and celebrate the past is now helping to define new potential for future eco-
nomic prosperity – no bones about it.
washed together by the quick, murky waters,
leaving a scene of devastation that was quick-
ly seized upon by scavenging predators like
Troodon and Albertosaurus. It created a di-
nosaur graveyard quite like none other in the
world. Millennia would pass before this was
discovered, but that occurred in 1974 when
a school teacher on a nature walk stumbled
across a few bones. The find prompted re-
searchers to further investigate the site, some
35 kilometers west of Grande Prairie, and
- EUREKA! - they struck the mother lode.
Bonebeds were found to contain the bones
of hundreds of horned dinosaurs as well as
evidence of other types of prehistoric ani-
mals, including the aforementioned scaven-
gers. Dinosaur-related dictates require all
such finds to be turned over to provincial
authorities, and over the years, these arti-
facts from Grande Prairie have amassed to
