Seebe, Alberta

Seebe (IPAEng|ˈsibi) is a ghost hamlet in the Municipal District of Bighorn No. 8, north of the Kananaskis Improvement District in Alberta, Canada. There are tentative plans to redevelop the area into a small town, retaining the same name.

The name Seebe comes from the Cree word for river. [Epodunk. [http://ca.epodunk.com/profiles/alberta/seebe/2005064.html Seebe] ]

Seebe housed a prisoner-of-war camp in the Second World War. An ecological and environmental research station of the University of Calgary is located nearby, on Highway 40 at Barrier Lake.

Travellers and tourists are regularly befuddled by the highway signs directing them to Seebe only to discover that no such community exists. A tourism display at one of the turnoffs describes the town in detail, proudly boasting that it is home to the world's smallest single-sheet, artificial ice curling rink. In fact, there is nothing there.

Part of the movie "Open Range",the "town" portions, starring and directed by Kevin Kostner was filmed on the Stony Indian Reserve directly across the Bow River from Seebe in 2003 when Seebe was still an active Alberta Energy town. At that time it still had a small general store, cafe and post-office all in one small building. The AltaEnergy employee housing and one dormatory was further down the road but considered private property. It was closed down a couple of years later and many of the houses were sold and moved.

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