Did You Know

- Dr. Caviades of the U. of S. did a study of Rockglen and District in 1973 and found that it is one of 4 areas in North America not touched by the last glacial movement. The other 3 are Cypress Hills, Porcupine Hills, AB and a area in Wisconsin.

- in 1919 a brontosaur measuring 66' long was excavated from a area west of Killdeer and shipped to Ottawa.

- in 1955 a biologist from Ottawa discovered a rich fossil bed in Lawrence Yost's gravel pit. They unearthed 15 million year old fossils of mammals including the 3-toed horse , squirrels, mice, beavers, rabbits, weasels, shrews and horn-cores of small antelope.

- A giant sea turtle measuring 12' long was excavated west of Killdeer. It is believed to be 100 million years old.

- In 1967, 2 biologists from Toronto found the richest deposit of small mammal fossils to that date in North America on John Kleinfelder's farm. Among them were the skull of a 3-toed horse and the tusk and bone fossils identified, by the Royal Ontario Museum's Dr. Russell, to be that of a 4 tusked mastodon.

- Effie Mattson found a fossil of a trilobite on top of a hill North of Rockglen.

- a few miles east of the village of Fife Lake a petrified tree was found, measuring 4 ' in diameter at the base and 30' long.

- That countless stone tools including axes, hammers, spear and arrow points, knives and scrapers have been found all over the area.

- That Sitting Bull hunted this area while he was camped at Wood Mountain.

- that Fife Lake was dry in 1895 and again in 1937. In 1937, while the lake was dry, coal was mined from the lake bed and Mr. William Belbeck discovered a imprint of a huge leaf resembling a palm leaf.

- That the town of Killdeer got it's name from the bird, that Rockglen got it's name from the valley and the rocky hills, that Fife lake was named after the lake and that Lisieux was named after a city in France. There is some dispute about how Scout Lake got it's name but all the stories involve scouting the area.