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Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Seebe /ˈsiːbiː/ is a former hamlet in Alberta, Canada, within the Municipal District of Bighorn No. 8. It is a former Calgary Power Company Ltd. employee townsite that was closed on August 31, 2004.Seebe is located on the south side of the Bow River, adjacent to the Seebe Dam. It is 0.5 kilometres (0.31 mi) east of Highway 1X, 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north of the Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 1) and 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) south of Highway 1A.In 2006/2007, a proposal emerged to redevelop the townsite as a new community, retaining the same name, with an approximately population of 5,600 people at full build-out.The name Seebe comes from the Cree word for river.Seebe housed a prisoner-of-war camp in the Second World War."The Kananaskis Prisoner Of War camp (No. 130), also known as Seebe for the nearby hamlet, operated from 29 September 1939 to 28 January 1946. Locals referred to this facility as Camp "Kan-A-Nazi". Seebe was small with a capacity of 200 prisoners of war (POWs)."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 it no longer exists. A tourism display at one of the turnoffs describes Seebe 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.Scenes from the movie Open Range, starring and directed by Kevin Costner, were filmed on the Stony Indian Reserve directly across the Bow River from Seebe in 2003 when it was still an inhabited hamlet. At that time, Seebe still had a small general store, a café and a 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.Seebe is just downstream from the confluence of the Bow and Kananaskis Rivers at Kananakis Falls. Horseshoe Falls is 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) downstream. Seebe has great vistas of the imposing face of Yamnuska Mountain to the north, Pigeon Mountain and the Kananaskis Valley to the south, Loder Peak and the Bow Valley to the west, and opening onto the prairie grasslands and the Bow Valley to the east.The underlying substrate in the area is sedimentary interbedded shale, sandstone and limestone. At the surface, there are great areas of glacial till with very little topsoil, drumlins, and small pockets of fertile alluvial deposits. The interbedded bedrock is tilted, being part of the disturbed zone adjacent to the Rockies, thus, the falls on the Bow River, and the potential for hydro electric power generation."@en }

• Seebe,_Alberta abstract "Seebe /ˈsiːbiː/ is a former hamlet in Alberta, Canada, within the Municipal District of Bighorn No. 8. It is a former Calgary Power Company Ltd. employee townsite that was closed on August 31, 2004.Seebe is located on the south side of the Bow River, adjacent to the Seebe Dam. It is 0.5 kilometres (0.31 mi) east of Highway 1X, 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north of the Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 1) and 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) south of Highway 1A.In 2006/2007, a proposal emerged to redevelop the townsite as a new community, retaining the same name, with an approximately population of 5,600 people at full build-out.The name Seebe comes from the Cree word for river.Seebe housed a prisoner-of-war camp in the Second World War."The Kananaskis Prisoner Of War camp (No. 130), also known as Seebe for the nearby hamlet, operated from 29 September 1939 to 28 January 1946. Locals referred to this facility as Camp "Kan-A-Nazi". Seebe was small with a capacity of 200 prisoners of war (POWs)."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 it no longer exists. A tourism display at one of the turnoffs describes Seebe 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.Scenes from the movie Open Range, starring and directed by Kevin Costner, were filmed on the Stony Indian Reserve directly across the Bow River from Seebe in 2003 when it was still an inhabited hamlet. At that time, Seebe still had a small general store, a café and a 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.Seebe is just downstream from the confluence of the Bow and Kananaskis Rivers at Kananakis Falls. Horseshoe Falls is 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) downstream. Seebe has great vistas of the imposing face of Yamnuska Mountain to the north, Pigeon Mountain and the Kananaskis Valley to the south, Loder Peak and the Bow Valley to the west, and opening onto the prairie grasslands and the Bow Valley to the east.The underlying substrate in the area is sedimentary interbedded shale, sandstone and limestone. At the surface, there are great areas of glacial till with very little topsoil, drumlins, and small pockets of fertile alluvial deposits. The interbedded bedrock is tilted, being part of the disturbed zone adjacent to the Rockies, thus, the falls on the Bow River, and the potential for hydro electric power generation.".