Remington Carriage Museum
Located in the rolling foothills of southern Alberta, the Remington Carriage Museum in Cardston, provides visitors with an appreciation of and authentic experience with 19th and early 20th century horse-drawn transportation. Using state-of-the-art techniques, the Remington Carriage Museum brings this bygone era to life.
The Museum's interactive galleries tell numerous stories of turn-of-the-century society and the carriage industry. Visitors can enter the carriage factory and discover the techniques used in producing carriages. Across the street is the carriage dealer where all types of vehicles were sold to all types of buyers. Around the corner is the blacksmith shop and livery stable where artisans and businessmen plied their trades. Across the way is the racetrack, where the elegant lifestyles of the leisure class are depicted. Vehicles from the Remington collection are prominent in most of the twenty-five stories told in the galleries.
As one of North America's largest collections of horse-drawn vehicles, the Remington Carriage Museum enhances the visitor's appreciation of the vehicles through its carriage ride program. During the summer months, visitors can book rides on any number of vintage and reproduction vehicles.
The story of 19th century transportation would be incomplete without the horse, and the Museum's herd of Clydesdales, Quarter Horses and Canadians are a major feature of daily programs. An equestrian eventing program is also featured, demonstrating the skill and protocol of competitive driving horses in harness.
The Remington-Alberta Carriage Centre also boasts a working stable, a theatre, a cafeteria and a gift shop. Situated on twenty acres of prime parkland in Lee Creek valley, the pastoral setting completes the picture of a long-past era.
