Bow Island, Alta., mayor Gordon Reynolds poses with Pinto MacBean, the town's larger-than-life mascot.
The year is 2537 and it's been 200 years since civilization was nearly wiped out because of an unknown disaster.
No one knows what this thing is. It must have been a god to the ancient Albertans, one person says. Another person suggests it must have been an altar where beans were sacrificed to encourage a better harvest. Bow Island actually has six "big things," including a giant putter at the entrance of the golf course and a massive sunflower outside of the former Spitz sunflower seed processing plant.
"It's just a theory of mine, but I think maybe it was in some way anxiety created around that kind of moment in history when those that really announce the name and the presence of a town, were being lost in a lot of prairie and Western Canadian communities." Paquette is Métis, and she says many of these "big things" scattered across the province are on traditional Indigenous lands that have plenty of opportunity for recognition in this way.
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