Drumheller

Welcome

The rich, rolling farmlands suddenly break away to reveal an astonishing, twisting,
turning canyon, walled with multi-colored layers of sandstone, mudstone and coal
alternating with shale sequences. The rock layers date back to the Late Cretaceous
Period, just before the demise of the dinosaurs. Drumheller is located in the Heart of the
Canadian Badlands. We are one the few areas in the world where the sedimentary layers
from earlier time periods have been scraped off by natural processes, exposing a rich
cache of fossils and even complete dinosaur skeletons.

Drumheller is a favorite destination for over 500,000 visitors each year. . We have over
50 attractions located within a 100 square kilometre area.

Today, the economy of Drumheller is fuelled by its booming tourism sector, vast
agricultural industry, and large oil and gas interests, and by the spirit, energy, and
ingenuity of our 7,800 citizens.

Drumheller offers the visitor and those contemplating taking up residence in the town a
quality of life that has many larger city amenities but the pace and charm of a small
town. The Town has an exciting history that goes back to the day when thousands of
men worked underground in the coal mines, providing coal for a growing western
Canada. Residential lots are reasonably priced for those wishing to build their home. For
entrepreneurs, commercial and industrial lots are also available at reasonable prices. For
those wishing to retire, no better area exists to be able to walk in comfort and safety.
Come visit for a day, and you could stay for a lifetime.

For additional information, please visit our website at dinosaurvalley.com.

Yours very truly,

Paul Ainscough
Mayor of Drumheller

Area Overview

Drumheller is located in the "Badlands" in East Central Alberta and is home to the world-
famous Royal Tyrrell Museum, one of the largest palaeotological museums in the world.

The area's moderate climate [average 2,490 hours of sunshine annually], excellent
education and recreational facilities, easy access to major city amenities, lower cost of
living and relaxed atmosphere make for an excellent quality of life for the Town's
residents.

Agriculture, tourism, and oil & gas production and manufacturing make up the main
economic base of the area. [The gross value of farm produce sold in the Drumheller area
in 1991 was more than $400 million.] Drumheller has a trading area population of
approximately 30,000, and a population of approximately 1,000,000 within a 100 mile
radius. Serviced municipal industrial parks with ample space are available in Drumheller.
As well, numerous privately owned lots and buildings are available at very reasonable
prices.

A full range of Federal, Provincial and Municipal services are available. There are also
more than 40 non-governmental associations, service clubs and support groups, and
more than 30 sports, recreation and social clubs. A complete directory of Community
Services is available from the Town's Community Services Department.

Community Services

Municipal

Town of Drumheller
703 - 2nd Avenue West
Drumheller, Alberta
T0J 0Y3
Tel: 403-823-6300
Fax: 403-823-7739

Administrative Services
Community Services
Engineering and Transportation Services
Economic Development and Tourism
Public Library
Building Inspector
Building License
Manager
Handi-bus
Landfill Site
Mayor's Office
Recycling Association
Senior's Service
Teen Centre

Provincial

Agriculture
Community Corrections
Employment office
Family and Social Services
Fish & Wildlife
Medical Examiner-Coroner Mental Health Clinic
Public Works, Supply and Services
Provincial Court Transportation Provincial Parks
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

Federal

Canada Post
Solicitor General
Agriculture and Agri-food Canada
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Drumheller and District Community Futures

Community Lifestyle

Recreation
Local recreational facilities include the 2,500-seat Drumheller Memorial Arena, Drumheller
Aquaplex, Drumheller Curling Rink, Drumheller Valley Ski Hill, 4 outdoor skating rinks, 14
ball diamonds, 3 tennis courts, 4 school gyms, a pathway system along the Red Deer
River, an 18-hole golf course, 2 fitness centres, and a bowling lane.

Resort areas and parks include the Newcastle Beach Recreation Area, Midland Provincial
Park, Community Parks (Nacmine, Rosedale, Wayne, Midland), and Riverview Park. In
addition, there are numerous smaller parks throughout the Town (totalling over 150
acres) with the showpiece being a water fountain and spray park at Centennial Park
which is one of Canada's highest.

Nearby provincial parks include Dry Island Buffalo Provincial Park and Little Fish Lake
Provincial Park. Campgrounds include River Grove Campground, Dinosaur Trailer Park,
Dinosaur Trail R.V. Resort, Bleriot Ferry Campground,Kokopelli Kampground and R.V. Park
and 9 Community Campgrounds.

Community Organizations

 A full range of federal, provincial and municipal services are available in Drumheller.
There are also more than 40 non-governmental associations, service clubs and support
groups, and more than 30 sports, recreation and social clubs. A complete directory of
Community Services are available from the Town of Drumheller Community Services
Department.

Some organizations include the Alberta Senior Citizen Sport and Recreation Club,
Aquadinnies Swim Club, Big Country Antique and Classic Auto Club, Big Country
Swingers, Churchill Centre Community Association, Dinosaur Trail Golf & Country Club,
Drumheller & District Shooters Association, Drumheller & District Teen Society,
Drumheller Community Challenge, Drumheller Curling Club, Drumheller Teen Centre, First
Drumheller Beavers, Cubs and Scouts, 4-H Clubs, Girl Guides of Canada, Knox Single-
Group, Midland Community Association, Nacmine Recreation Association and Hall, Navy
League, Navy League of Canada Society, Newcastle Recreation Association, Recreation
Department - Town of Drumheller, Rosedale Community Hall, Sea Cadets, Seishin Karate
Club, Sports Teams, Tai Chi, Valley Figure Skating, Wayne Community Association, Big
Country Swingers, Painters Guild, and the Potter's Guild.

Religious Facilities

Local religious facilities and groups include the Baha'i Faith, Bethany Lutheran Church,
Catholic Woman's League, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Church of the
Nazarene, Dalum Lutheran Church, Delia Christian Fellowship, Drumheller Alliance Church,
Drumheller Institutional Chaplains, Drumheller Ministerial Association, Elim Pentecostal
Tabernacle, Fellowship Baptist Church, Grace Lutheran Church, Grace Lutheran Women's
League, Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall, Knox United Church, Morrin United Church,
Parkdale Baptist Church, Salvation Army, Seventh Day Adventist Church, St. Anthony's
Catholic Church, St. Magloire's Anglican Church, United Church Women, and the Zion
Baptist Church.

Special Annual Event/Attractions

The world-famous Royal Tyrrell Museum is one of the largest palaeotological museums in
the world. 4.5 billion years of the Earth's history is revealed, from the development of
the planet to the emergence of dinosaurs, mammals and the living world today.
Drumheller is also home to the World's Largest Dinosaur (over 80 feet). Other nearby
museums include the Atlas Coal Mine Museum, Drumheller Valley Interpretive Centre
(formerly known as Drumheller Dinosaur and Fossil Museum), East Coulee School
Museum, and The Homestead Museum.

Local theatre groups include the Canadian Badlands Passion Play, Drumheller and Area
Allied Arts Council, Kaleidoscope Theatre, and the Rosebud School of the Arts.

Annual Events:
Music Festival, March
Beethoven in the Badlands sponsored by Drumheller Rotary Club June
Passion Play July
July 1st Parade, July
Kaleidoscope Theatre -"Footloose" July 2005
East Coulee Heritage Days, August
Santa Claus Parade sponsored by Downtown Drumheller, December

Accommodation
Hotels & Motels

Badlands Motel
Drumheller Inn Ltd.
Hoodoo Motel
Last Chance Saloon
Travel Lodge Motor Inn
Rosedale Hotel
River Grove Cabins & Campground
The Lodge at Drumheller
New Waldorf Hotel
Best Western Jurassic Inn
Super 8 Motel
East Coulee Motor Inn

Bed & Breakfasts & Country Inns

Faith Haven
Heartwood Manor
McDougall Lane
Newcastle Country Inn
Pearl's "Cabin"
River Bend
Silver Fox Country Inn
Taste the Past
The Victorian House

Restaurants

Drumheller boasts a wide range of dining experiences, including Boston Pizza, Athens
Greek Restaurant - Steak and Pizza House, Cool Castle, Corner Stop Restaurant, Dairy
Queen, Diana Restaurant, Dick's Place, Dino's Family Restaurant & Pizza, A & W
Restaurant, Drumheller Inn, Fred & Barney's Family Restaurant, The Falcon, McDonald's,
Pizza 249, Sizzling House, Smitty's Family Restaurant, Stavros Family Restaurant, Red's
Sports Lounge, Subway, The Old Grouch, Whif's Flap Jack House, and Yavis Family
Restaurant.

The Hoodoos

Economic Base

The economic base of Drumheller consists of natural resources [oil, gas, coal],
agriculture, tourism, service industry, hospital and the federal penitentiary.

The Town also has a very significant manufacturing base producing plastic goods.

Economic Facts

Major Businesses Products/Services

Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology [major employer]Museum
Inland Plastics Plastics
W. Ralston Canada Inc.
Drumheller Institution [major employer] Penitentiary
Oil and Gas Industry

Financial Institutions

Alberta Treasury Branch
Bank of Montreal
Bank of Nova Scotia
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Chinook Credit Union
Royal Bank
Drumheller Regional Chamber of
Development & Tourism (Community Futures/Business
Development Centre)

Education

Drumheller is part of the Golden Hills Regional School Division #15, headquartered in
Strathmore [Tel: 403-934-5121], and the Christ Redeemer Catholic Separate Regional
School Division, headquartered in Okotoks [Tel: 403-938-2659].

Daycare/Nursery
Drumheller and District Family Day Home
Time For Tot's Day Homes
Hoo Doo Honey Bee Day Care
Bedrock Playschool

Public
Public schools in Drumheller include Greentree School [K-6], and Drumheller Composite
High School [7-12].

Separate
St. Anthony's School provides education for Grades K to 9.

Private
N/A

Emergency Services

Fire Protection
Drumheller is served by a 50 member volunteer fire department [Emergencies dial 911]
[Administration call 823-1300] operating 10 apparatus including 3 pumpers, 3 tankers, 1
- 105 aerial snorkel, rescue truck, 1 personnel carrier and a rescue boat. The Drumheller
Fire Department operates out of three district halls, Rosedale, East Coulee and
Drumheller.

Police Services
Drumheller is served by a local detachment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
[RCMP] [Emergencies dial 911] [Administration call 823-7590]. The Town detachment
has 9 members [1 staff sergeant, 1 corporal and 7 constables], while the rural
detachment has 4 members [1 corporal and 3 constables].

Ambulance Services
Ambulance service is provided through the hospital [Emergencies dial 911]
[Administration call 823-6500]. Ambulances are housed and dispatched from the
hospital. The staff are volunteers who have been trained in Basic Life Support. The
ambulance has a dedicated phone line answered by nursing staff who dispatch the
ambulances as necessary. Helicopter ambulance service out of Calgary is utilized for
critical transfers as required.

Drumheller also offers a co-ordinated 911 phone system for all emergency services.

Health Care

Drumheller District Health Services operates under Regional Health Authority 4 which is
headquartered in Red Deer. It is an integration of health services comprised of three
main areas -- the hospital, continuing care (nursing home and auxiliary hospital), and
community health (public health) services.

The Drumheller hospital has 52 acute care beds and 110 continuing care beds. The
complex provides primary, some secondary and geriatric care to residents of the
Drumheller area. Services provided include emergency and outpatient care, medical,
surgical, day surgery, pediatric, obstetric and newborn care, intensive care for cardiac
and trauma. A broad range of diagnostic and therapeutic services are available including
all support services. 24-hour coverage of physician and nursing care is provided.

The continuing care program offers respite care, palliative care and a day support
program to assist families in the community who wish to keep their elderly at home as
long as possible.

The Community Health branch provides services to Drumheller area residents and offers
programs including community care (home care, Aids to Daily Living, speech language,
pathology and respiratory care), environmental health services (environmental factors
that may affect public health, community health nutrition, hereditary diseases programs). These services promote, protect, improve and maintain health within
communities.

Our newly constructed $35 million regional hospital which, was completed in early 2002,
provides all of the above-mentioned services under one roof.

The Drumheller Physicians Clinic has 13 physicians practising, including 1 specialist in
surgery, 1 specialist in internal medicine, 1 specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology, 4
physicians in anesthetics, and 6 physicians in family practice. A physician is on call 24
hours a day. The clinic also runs an out-patient department and a laboratory on site.

Key Contacts for Business Development

Municipal (Updated June/05)

Town of Drumheller
703 - 2nd Avenue West
Drumheller, Alberta
T0J 0Y3
Tel: 403-823-6300
Fax: 403-823-8006
e-mail: cao@dinosaurvalley.com
web: dinosaurvalley.com

Paul Ainscough
Mayor
E-mail:mayor@dinosaurvalley.com

Raymond Romanetz
Chief Administrative Officer
Town of Drumheller
Tel: (403) 823-1308
Fax: (403) 823-8006
E-mail:rmroman@dinosaurvalley.com

Scott Blevins
Director of Community Services
Town of Drumheller
Tel:(403)-823-1316
Fax: (403) 823-7739
E-mail:sblevins@dinosaurvalley.com

Ray Telford
Economic Development Officer
Town of Drumheller
Tel: 403-823-1320
Fax: 403-823-7739
E-mail:rtelford@dinosaurvalley.com

Jerry Brett
Development Officer-Safety Codes
Town of Drumheller
Tel:(403) 823-1310
Fax:(403) 823-7739
E-mail:jbrett@dinosaurvalley.com

Jean-Marc Lacasse
General Manager
Drumheller Regional Chamber of Development & Tourism
P.O. Box 999
Drumheller, Alberta
T0J 0Y0
Tel: (403) 823-8100
Fax: (403) 823-4469
E-mail:jm.lacasse@drumhellerchamber.com

Provincial (Updated May 2006)

Walter Valentini
Regional Manager
Alberta Economic Development
#300, 639 - 5th Avenue, SW
Calgary, Alberta
T2P 0M9
Tel: 403-297-8920
Fax: 403-297-6168
E-mail:walter.valentini@gov.ab.ca
E-mail:dianne.fitzsimmons@gov.ab.ca

Hon. Shirley McClellan
Minister of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Development
Member of the Legislative Assembly [MLA]
Drumheller-Chinook Constituency

Constituency Office
Box 1386
119 - 2nd Avenue West
Hanna
T0J 1P0
Phone: (403) 854-4333
Fax: (403) 854-2812
drumheller.stettler@assembly.ab.ca

Legislature Office
#224 Legislature Building
10800 - 97 Avenue
Edmonton
T5K 2B6
Phone: (780) 427-8809
Fax: (780) 428-1341

Federal (Updated May 2006)

Member of Parliament-Crowfoot, Alberta
SORENSON, Kevin (Conservative)

Parliamentary Address
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A6
Telephone: (613) 947-4608
Fax: (613) 947-4611
E-Mail: Sorenson.K@parl.gc.ca

Constituency Address
4945 - 50th Street
Camrose, Alberta
T4V 1P9
Telephone: (780) 608-4600 1-800-665-4358
Fax: (780) 608-4603
TTY:

Location

Distances from Drumheller
Calgary 138Km
Edmonton 279 Km
Banff 263 Km
Lethbridge 282 Km
Waterton 416 km
Vancouver 1114 Km
Saskatchewan Border 221 Km
BC Border 288 Km
USA Border 325 Km
Coutts 320 Km
Portland 1424 Km

Post Secondary Education

Drumheller residents have access to post-secondary institutions in Red Deer, Calgary
and Edmonton, and through the Big Country Educational Consortium.

Taxation

	Residential/Farmland	Non-Residential
2005
Municipal Tax Rate	11.5665	11.5665
Education - Alberta School Foundation Fund Tax Rate	4.5692	6.9002
Education Opted Out Tax Rate	4.5692	6.9002

Mill Rates [2003]

Residential-(Public & Separate) 17.090
Non-Residential-(Public & Separate) 20.508

Transportation

Air Service
Drumheller maintains a local airport capable of handling small jet aircraft. An active
leisure flying club and the Badlands Parachute Club also make the airport their base of
operation.

Rail Service
The Town of Drumheller is serviced by the main line of the C.N.R. from Calgary to
Saskatoon (freight only).

Highways
Highways 56, 9, 10 and Secondary Roads 570, 573, 575, 576, 838, 849, and 849 provide direct access to Drumheller.

Trucking Firms
Drumheller is serviced by Hi-Way 9 Trucking Ltd. of Drumheller, a family owned
operation. The firm has representation in Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer, and services a
large area of east central Alberta.

Bus Services
Drumheller is serviced by Greyhound of Canada and the Saskatchewan Transportation
Company. Service includes Calgary to Drumheller and Edmonton.

Couriers and Taxis
Drumheller is serviced by all the major courier services, with local courier service that
have working agreements with the majors. Purolator, Loomis, U.P.S., etc. Local M.I.K.
Couriers.

Drumheller company(s) -- JB's Taxi, John's Taxi

Paratransit Services for the disabled and seniors is provided by the Valley Bus Society.

Utilities

Electrical Power
ATCO Electric Ltd.
180 - 3 Avenue West
Drumheller, Alberta
Tel: 403-823-3391

Natural Gas
ATCO Gas Ltd.
501 Premier Road
Drumheller, Alberta
Tel: 403-823-3002

Telephone
TELUS
Tel: 403-310-2255

Television
Shaw Cable
(800) 400-9605

Regional CableSystems
(800) 465-1000

Water Supply

The quality of water in the Drumheller Valley is excellent. The water treatment system
has the capacity to serve 15,000 residents. The town also supplies other municipalities
in the area with water.

Water usage rates for residential and commercial users is $24.70 for the first 4,000
gallons plus $4.85 per 1,000 gallons thereafter.

Waste Management

The Drumheller landfill site has a life expectancy of 50 years. Drumheller serves as the
base for the Drumheller and District Solid Waste Management Association that services
20 municipalities and a population of 27,000.

The sewage rate for residential users is $20.00 per month, while the sewage rate for
commercial users ranges from $22.00 to $269.00 per month, depending on the class of
business. Contact the Town of Drumheller for more details.

Population

Total Population 1991-2001

Drumheller Population by Age Group (2001)

Education Statistics

Drumheller Highest Level of Schooling 2001

Labour Force

Drumheller Labour Force By Industry - 2001

Income

Family Expenditure

Drumheller Family Expenditures (1996)

Building Permits

Total Housing Starts

Value of Building Permits

Dwellings

Projects

Summary of Projects in Drumheller as of September 2006

Value of Projects by Sector (as of September 2006)

Largest Projects in Drumheller as of September 2006