DRUMHELLER

city, southern Alberta, Canada, on the Red Deer River, 86 miles (138 km) northeast of Calgary. A grain-shipping point, it is surrounded by extensive coal, gas, and oil fields and by wheat fields. It was founded in 1910 by Samuel Drumheller, a coal-mining pioneer who helped launch Alberta's great coal industry. The circular 28-mile (45-kilometre) Dinosaur Trail into the Red Deer valley badlands begins at the Dinosaur Fossil Museum in Drumheller; it advances past the Homestead Antique Museum (with pioneer and Indian relics) and the picturesque Little Church and through oil and wheat fields before entering ancient seabeds of fossilized oysters, the Dinosaur Burial Grounds, and petrified forests. Inc. village, 1913; town, 1916; city, 1930. Pop. (1991) 6,277.