Much of what is special about this site is lost but I want to tell you a story about its past:

From “Ogden Whistle Ogden Area History Committee Calgary: Ogden Area History Committee, 1975. “

The Rock by E. Russell

If you are familiar with Millican, you will remember the famous rock. Generations of children played around it and called is by many names. “Fairy Rock”, “Wishing Stone” etc. Many believed that is was a buffalo rubbing stone because on the prairie there are many buffalo wallows. But Mr. Rogers has done an investigation and feels that it isn't because it is too small and it shows no evidence of polishing. Upon augering around it I found no evidence that is was used for a rubbing stone.

He goes on to state and I quote: “It is my further opinion that the “rock” is geologically related to the glacial category commonly known as the Glacial Erratics. That is to say that the feature is part of the foothills erratics train glacial phenomenon which consists of a large number of quartzite boulders from the upper Athabasca Valley that were moved south along the Alberta Foothills during the late Pleistocene by Cordilleran and Laurentide Ice Masses. Such Features extend along the foothill area as far south as Northern Montana. This distribution tends to limit the number of these configurations present in any on area. In the Calgary Area the most notable of these erratics is the Big Rock near Okotoks."

When development came to the area, all traces of the Fairy Rock were destroyed. As well as other vestiges of this area's sacred past were bulldozed away. The area was replaced with a modern subdivision.

Unfortunately for the residents, soil contaminated with toxic waste was used and many parts of the area are said to not be fit for human habitation, and the area is to be restored to its former state.

What happened to the fairy rock? It was pushed off the escarpment and buried under the bicycle path, near the pond in Beaver Dam Flats Park.