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residents and a thriving business sector are
fueling incredible growth in Brooks.
The city is one of Alberta's fastest growing
communities, with more than 13,000
Drumheller
residents, including immigrants from
places like Russia, Romania, South Africa,
where people are doing lots of things. It’s
Mexico, Sudan and southeast Asia. The
Ken Gousseau largest collection of dinosaur fossils.
just a great vibrant place.”
multicultural community is predicted to
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“A lot of these visitors are from foreign
reach a population of 20,000 within the
The local business sector is also booming

countries, so it’s very interesting
next 25 years.
in Brooks. Last year, the City of Brooks Drumheller is perhaps best known
and you end up with a real cultural
issued a record number of business
as the unofficial dinosaur capital of
awakening,” Nimmo says. “The
Brooks is blessed with one of Alberta's
licenses at more than 900. The number of
the world, but there’s much more to
residents appreciate it.”
most active natural gas fields, but the
new businesses increased by a staggering
the town located in the heart of the
principle employer in the city is still the
100 per cent, in part due to the young age
Canadian Badlands.
Another major attraction is Reptile
Lakeside Packers meat packing plant,
World, Canada’s largest live reptile
of the population. The average Brooks
Apart from the tourism industry that
exhibit with more than 200 reptiles
where a large portion of the city’s 1,000
resident is just over 30 years old.
draws as many as 500,000 visitors to
and amphibians on display.
temporary foreign workers and 2,000
Drumheller annually, the town has
refugees from around the world earn their
A primary focus for Shields and city
thriving oil and gas and agricultural
The Badlands Dinosaur Derby
living. Residents in nearby communities
councillors Bill Prentice, Rolf Bander,
sectors. In addition, the picturesque
Chuckwagon Races, the Richard
such as Tilley, Duchess and Rosemary are
Norm Gerestein, Clayton Johnson,
Badlands in and around the town
Cosgrave Memorial Pro Rodeo,
also part of the workforce in Brooks.
Kimberly Sharkey and Noel Moriyama is of 8,000 residents have provided a
the Drumheller and District Music
the construction of a new agribition park
backdrop for numerous commercials,
Festival and the Canadian Badlands
“In Brooks, most people are from
in the city that will feature a new arena
television and cinematic productions,
Passion Play are just a few of the
somewhere else,” says Mayor Martin
and chuckwagon track. The park, which
including the 1992 Western film
popular events held annually in
Shields. “It provides a very different
is expected to be completed sometime in
Unforgiven.
Drumheller.
dynamic, but yet there’s still a tremendous
2010, will become the new venue for the
“It’s a solid community,” says
Recreational opportunities are
amount of things going on that have gone
annual Kinsmen Rodeo in June.
Drumheller Mayor Bryce Nimmo.
abundant in the town, with an arena,
on for years . . . It's a very busy community
”It hasn’t varied a great deal as far
aquatic centre and golf courses, as well
as population is concerned, but it
as a vibrant arts and entertainment
certainly has not dropped either.”
community that includes the Napier
Theatre and Rosebud School of the
Drumheller is home to the world's
Arts.
largest dinosaur, an 86-foot fibreglass
Tyrannosaurus Rex that resides next
Nimmo and town councillors Andrew
to another marvel, Canada's largest
Berdahl, Karen Ann Bertamini, Don
water fountain, which sprays a full
Guidolin, Blaine McDonald, Sharel
75-feet into the air.
Shoff and Terry Yemen are in the
initial stages of planning a community
Each year, more than 350,000 visitors
facility that would cater to athletic and
flock to the Royal Tyrrell Museum of
Photo Courtesy Canadian Badlands Initiative
cultural groups. A timeline has yet to
Paleontology in Drumheller's Midland
be announced for completion of the
Provincial Park to view the country's
project.
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