Steveville, Alberta

Steveville is a ghost town in southern Alberta, Canada. The community, located near Brooks, had a general store in 1910. Named after Steve Hall, a local homesteader, the community never attracted a large population. The Hall family operated a number of businesses in Steveville, including the ferry, boarding house, and the general store and post office.^[1]

Steveville is most notable as the discovery location of many specimens of dinosaurs, including fossils of Styracosaurus, Daspletosaurus,^[2] Corythosaurus, Struthiomimus,^[3] and others found around the community.

Footnotes

↑ "City of Brooks Alberta: Steveville General Store". City of Brooks, Alberta. 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
↑ "Where in the world can you find Daspletosaurus torosus?". Canadian Museum of Nature. 2003. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
↑ "Struthiomimus altus plaque". Research Casting International. 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-26.

External links

* Canadian Museum of Nature (with map locating Steveville)

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Coordinates: 50°50′18″N 111°36′04″W / 50.83833°N 111.60111°W / 50.83833; -111.60111 (Steveville)

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