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The Galloway Station Museum & Travel Centre

History, live it.

Galloway Station Museum and Travel Centre is located in the heart of Edson, Alberta.

Set in the beautiful RCMP Centennial Park , the Galloway Station Museum & Travel Centre is a jewel on the necklace of the Yellowhead Trail.

We welcome locals and visitors to celebrate our history and embrace the mud and muskeg that was our home and offer a glimpse of the hardships of early settlers who had to battle extreme elements often on a daily basis.

We tell stories of those who shaped this raw, rough land into thriving, modern communities.

The Galloway Station Museum will take you back to the early days of the Coal Branch, chronicling the lives of miners from all around the world who risked life and limb to provide for their families.

We help people link past to the present - touting not only geographical attractions of the area, but also historical high points that enrich the experiences, and the lives, of locals and travelers.

TRAVEL CENTRE

The Galloway Station Museum & Travel Centre is an accredited Alberta Visitor Information Provider with up-to-the-minute travel information, free WiFi, handicap accessible public washrooms, a computer kiosk, free travel brochures and advice from our well-trained staff.

FOOD & DRINK

The Town of Edson is home to many fine establishments to sate your appetite and slake your thirst, including Apex Predator Brewing and Rocky Mountain Bighorn Distillery.

Visit Here (page 25) for a full list of restaurants in the area.

223 - 55th Street

Edson, ab t7e 1l5, contact us.

Tel: 780-723-5696

[email protected]

www.gallowaystationmuseum.com

Hours of Operation

Monday to Friday

9am to 5pm Saturdays 10am to 5pm

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• Monday: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
• Tuesday: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
• Wednesday: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
• Thursday: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
• Friday: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
• Saturday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
• Sunday: Closed

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🗣️ Galloway Station Museum, Travel Centre & Archives: Reviews

Fantastic experience: A must if your coming to Edson.AB

Fantastic experience: Travelling through Edson on business and utilized the museum as a co working space for a meeting. Bright professional setting, lovely natural light, free wifi and exceptional customer service. The space would make a great place for a formal event or public engagement space.

Fantastic experience: Great stop for families!!

Fantastic experience: Staff was very helpful. They sve us a referral for an awesome restaurant

Fantastic experience: Great place to visit! Very clean. Clean bathrooms. Lots of stuff to look at. Eddie the Squirrel Jr was great. Staff were friendly. Lots of interesting merchandise to purchase.

Fantastic experience: Awesome museum.

Fantastic experience: Awesome little museum. Polite and friendly staff.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful little museum. Great place you hold meeting or events

Fantastic experience: Great spot for a break on the highway! Very friendly staff, clean washrooms, and interesting parts of the region’s history.

Fantastic experience: Such an amazing gem for our community. Well maintained and kept, filled with great information, local artists and gifts and the staff are always friendly and accommodating. The rental room is well lit, modern and very convenient for hosting meetings and information sessions.

Fantastic experience: Great little museum! We were driving from Jasper to Edmonton and wanted to stop half way to do an activity, and this was the perfect stop. My husband, 3 kids and I all enjoyed looking around at the displays.

Fantastic experience: Wonderful museum, gift shop and very helpful staff!

Fantastic experience: I loved the museums, both areas are amazing. The staff super friendly and informative, thank you for showing me around

Fantastic experience: Great museum in Edson. Unfortunately we did not have time to actually go into the museum, we will have to do that another time but it looks very interesting. Everything else was very good. The staff is friendly and courteous. There are public washrooms available that are clean and accessible. There is a gift shop that is very nice. The building is in a park setting so you can go for a walk if you want.

Fantastic experience: Lovely place, most lovely ladies working th

Fantastic experience: Great always is

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, quiet stopover. Small but interesting for Edson AB - nice little gift shop

Fantastic experience: Great museum of edson area kings and queens have been to this town

Fantastic experience: Wonderful location. Clean. Friendly. Beautifully decorated

Fantastic experience: Really fun stuff, it's good for what it is, a small town museum. I'd say the animals and the train model are the most impressive stuff

Fantastic experience: What a great treasure we have h

Fantastic experience: I did not go in my dodge truck broke down and I had to pull in the parking lot. They were closed. Lol

Fantastic experience: Well maintained, very welcoming and interesting museum

Fantastic experience: Well done, interesting stories of local history. Well worth the visit.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful building.

Fantastic experience: Le petit musée de la ville. Beaucoup de passion et beaucoup de soin dans ce petit endroit très accueillant et mignon.

Fantastic experience: Awesom

Fantastic experience: Great for The Family

Fantastic experience: Very informative. Loved the history

Fantastic experience: I had a special event at the museum everyone was very helpful and friendly. The venue was perfect. All the tables were set up and dishes and glasses were made available. I can only give praise . Thank you.

Fantastic experience: Mystery at the Museum was lots of fun. So nice to see families out and about!

Fantastic experience: I always stop here to a break, doggie walk and washroom use when I drive to Jasper. It's a lovely place, clean and beautiful grounds to spend some time.

Fantastic experience: Wonderful best stop so far cutest of the biggest things worth the stop to stretch your legs! And great conversation too!

Fantastic experience: Fantastic interactive museum. Very informative with beautiful displays.

Fantastic experience: Great history lots of history and German girl and pretty smiling eyes of a Irish lady

Fantastic experience: Very clean and staff very helpful and freindly

Fantastic experience: Very knowledgeable and helpful staff. Learned so much! Will be going back soon.

Fantastic experience: Great place for presentations and events

Fantastic experience: Pig rst was awesome and at the time the music rocked and my 3 yr granddaughter had a blast

Fantastic experience: Amazing amount of exhibits very well organized. We thought we'd breeze through it in a half hour but ended up there almost 3hrs and could have used another hour or two. Well worth stopping for.

Fantastic experience: A very nice little museum/rest stop that gives a good overview of Edson's past; mostly railway-focused but also touches on industry and natural history. Well worth a stop on the way to or from Jasper.

Fantastic experience: Very friendly environment

Fantastic experience: Father and daughter ... A beautiful day !!

Fantastic experience: An interesting museum that has been recently updated. It offers a good look into the Edson areas past and has great displays to look through.

Fantastic experience: Great place to visit, friendly knowledgeable staff and the Museum had lots of character, especially if you get a tour and listen to the stories that are not written down. Very interesting!

Fantastic experience: It's a pretty sweet museum. I do some volunteer work here. The displays are interesting and the staff is cool. You can learn a lot of interesting history about Edson here; there's actually quite a bit. Worth the low price.

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Galloway Station Museum and Travel Centre - All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go (2024)

• Mon - Fri 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
• Sat - Sat 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
• (0.16 km) Comfort Inn & Suites
• (0.35 km) Super 8 by Wyndham Edson
• (0.45 km) Best Western High Road Inn
• (0.31 km) Econo Lodge Edson
• (0.29 km) Castle Motel
• (0.20 km) The Chopped Leaf
• (0.27 km) Dairy Queen Grill & Chill
• (0.39 km) Castle Restaurant
• (0.34 km) Galloway Pub
• (0.62 km) Mountain Pizza & Steakhouse Ltd

223- 55th Street, Edson, AB

780-723-5696

Edson & Area Visitor Guide 2023/24

• (780) 933-0182
• [email protected]

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The Alberta Coal Branch: Ghost Towns of Alberta’s Mining Industry

by Galloway Station Museum, Travel Centre & Archives  |  Cultural Landscape, Historic Building, Monument / Landmark, Museum/Gallery

The Alberta Coal Branch , a chain of abandoned mining towns along the eastern slopes of the central Canadian Rocky Mountains, was once an important part of Alberta’s coal industry.

Home to thousands of people with diverse backgrounds and heritages, the Coal Branch was famous for its guarantee of work and overall prosperity. However, technological advancement that once necessitated the mines outpaced production and outdated the collieries.

The demand for coal, a resource that heated homes and businesses, fueled rail transportation, and kept the Albertan economy running steadily, decreased with the introduction of diesel, electricity, and other forms of energy.

In the span of about fifty years, the Coal Branch went from a buzzing industrial region to a series of ghost towns along a deserted railway track.

Learn more about the Alberta Coal Branch at www.gallowaystationmuseum.com/reports-presentations.

Galloway Station Museum, Archives & Travel Centre

Edson, alberta.

Learn more about the Alberta Coal Branch at the Galloway Station Museum, Travel Centre & Archives in Edson. The museum offers a glimpse into the lives of miners of the Alberta Coal Branch, complete with stories of the colorful characters of the area and the dynamics of the tight-knit Coal Branch communities.

Robb, Alberta

Dubbed the ‘Gateway to the Coal Branch’, Robb was the central community for a number of small mines in the area and is one of the only towns on the Coal Branch that is still inhabited today. Robb is home to the Bryan Hotel (now called the Coal Branch Hotel), which is the only business started in the early days of the Coal Branch that is still running to this day.

Cadomin, Alberta

Cadomin was the largest town of the Alberta Coal Branch, boasting nearly 2500 residents at its peak. However, today there are less than 50 residents living in the community. You can still visit some of Cadomin’s original buildings as well as remnants of the original mine, including the mine entrance and remaining concrete foundations of the trestle bridge.

Mercoal, Alberta

Mercoal was the last major operator of the Alberta Coal Branch. Today, only remnants of the once-bustling town are visible, including concrete remnants of the mine and several original homes and buildings.

Mountain Park

Mountain park, alberta.

From 1910 to 1950, the community of Mountain Park in the Alberta Coal Branch was the highest year-round inhabited community in the Commonwealth at a height of 6200 feet.  Although nothing is left of the town today, the  Mountain Park Cemetery — the highest cemetery in North America– overlooks where the bustling town once was and is possibly one of the most picturesque cemeteries you will come across!

Edson, Alberta to Mountain Park, Alberta

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Galloway Station Museum and Travel Centre - All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go (2024)

• Mon - Fri 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
• Sat - Sat 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
• (0.16 km) Comfort Inn & Suites
• (0.35 km) Super 8 by Wyndham Edson
• (0.45 km) Best Western High Road Inn
• (0.31 km) Econo Lodge Edson
• (0.29 km) Castle Motel
• (0.20 km) The Chopped Leaf
• (0.27 km) Dairy Queen Grill & Chill
• (0.39 km) Castle Restaurant
• (0.34 km) Galloway Pub
• (0.62 km) Mountain Pizza & Steakhouse Ltd