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Artist Roland Gissing Celebrated At Bar U Ranch

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By NPT Staff - May 25th, 2022
Bar U Ranch in southern Alberta celebrates Canadian ranching history.

Bar U Ranch in southern Alberta celebrates Canadian ranching history/Travel Alberta, Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604

The Bar U Ranch National Historic Site has launched a gallery in its visitor center celebrating Alberta’s best-known landscape artist.

The Roland Gissing Gallery features the late artist's paintings, custom saddle, sketchbooks and other personal effects.

“Moving to Canada from England in 1913, Gissing rode the range from the Peace River Country as far south as Mexico working on ranches and sketching along the way,” Parks Canada said in a news release. Gissing later bought land near the junction of the Ghost and Bow rivers west of Cochrane. He died in 1967.

Gissing’s work can also be found in the collections of Queen Elizabeth II, the Glenbow Museum and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.

You can learn to lasso at Bar U Ranch National Historic Site.

You can learn to lasso at Bar U Ranch National Historic Site/Travel Alberta, Colin Way


Bar U, which opened May 16 for the season, also recently opened the three-kilometre (1.8-mile) Pekisko Creek Trail, which includes a portion of the national historic site not often seen during a regular visit. It boasts rustic picnic spots and mountain views.

Set in the rolling foothills of the Rockies about one hour southwest of Calgary, the Bar U Ranch is the only national historic site to commemorate the history and importance of ranching in Canada. Its historic buildings and structures illustrate various stages of ranching development between 1882 and 1950.

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