Local history buff Fred Orosz brought in a curiosity that may date back more than 100 years.
Visible from the intersection of Highway 10 and Highway 56 near Rosedale, atop a cone shaped hill is a small Canadian flag.
Dave Pinter tells inside Drumheller that he put up the flag a few years back.
According to Orosz was a further story that dates back to the 1800’s.
As relayed to him from former resident Morris Stefanik, a miner who lived in Newcastle, on Dominion Day in 1889, Thomas Chesmer Weston, working for the Geological Survey of Canada, scaled the hill, with a farmer by the name of McKenzie and his son from Red Deer.
Atop the hill, they raised a red handkerchief on a pole, saluted and sang “God Save the Queen”. They then toasted the Queen with a bottle of brandy, which they had along as a remedy for snake bites.
The ceremony was commemorated on Canada Day in 1986.
