VISIT US THIS SUMMER! Entrance to the


Village of Foremost


Foremost & District Agricultural Society Annual Rodeo – June 22 & 23, 2019


Foremost Golf Course


The following are some neat turns of phrase you’ll hear when traveling through the Canadian Badlands. Most are unique to the area. Those that aren’t, are reflective of western North American lifestyle:


Shelter trees: planted trees in rows that protect crops from high winds.


Palliser Triangle: a desert area stretching from Calgary to Medicine Hat to the Saskatchewan border and south to the Montana border.


‘Hills’: what the locals call massive beehive-shaped mounds that are part of the Badlands landscape. The mounds have a high clay content and their dark rings are generally coal veins.


Coulees: deep steep-sided ravines between the Badland ‘hills’ formed by erosion


Foremost Dam


located next to our campground and walking path


Great fi shing in our Reservoir,


Tying rope: a bullrider expression tied to the cowboy mystique.


Sedimentary splunking: exploring caves in rock formed from consolidated clay sediments.


“The Hat”: Medicine Hat Pivot circles: circular sprinklers.


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Wheel lines: linear sprinklers supported by huge metal wheels with spokes. Rodeo stock: bulls, calves bred for rodeos. Prairie Oysters: calf testicles.


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Range Rider: looks after cattle in a community pasture, checking fences, etc.


Community pasture: a piece of land used by several cattle ranchers.


Fifth Wheel: a familiar site in the Canadian Badlands, this special trailer hooks up to a pickup


Horse Stick Racing: an annual kids “horse race” at the Hanna Rodeo where kids run around with an age old toy; make believe horse heads on broomsticks.


Dakota Clippers: Extreme cold winds that bounce their way through the maze of Sweetgrass Hills of northern Montana and into the southern Canadian Badlands during colder seasons.


Chinook: A chinook is a warm, dry, gusty wind that blows down the eastern slopes of the Canadian Rockies, across the foothills and prairies. The temperature rises quickly, sometimes up to 20°C in an hour. Wind speed can range from 16 km/h to 60 km/h, gusting to 100 km/h. The term chinook comes from a Native word meaning "snow eater."


Turnout: A turnout is a small paved area adjacent to a highway where travelers can safely pull over. A turnout is also another word for a private paddock for those traveling with livestock.


Bull-A-Rama: an annual July bullriding and bloodless bullfighting event in Oyen.


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