Discover a secret place...
On the banks of the Athabasca river, deep in the boreal forest of northern Alberta lies the forgotten settlement of Bitumount, the birthplace of the Canadian Oil Sands.
Surrounded only by the sounds of the wind and the hum of insects, its crumbling walls and rusting artifacts tell of a 35 year struggle to establish Canada as one of the world's greatest oil producers.
On the banks of the Athabasca river, deep in the boreal forest of northern Alberta lies the forgotten settlement of Bitumount, the birthplace of the Canadian Oil Sands.
Surrounded only by the sounds of the wind and the hum of insects, its crumbling walls and rusting artifacts tell of a 35 year struggle to establish Canada as one of the world's greatest oil producers.