From a coal-mining “gopher hole” in 1907 to a village in bloom today, Forestburg keeps its history close. MCSnet’s fixed wireless network covers the village and the farms around it, from $49.95/month.
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Our tower network is built for the farms, acreages, and lake lots past where wired providers stop, with speeds up to 940 Mbps, enough for a busy household, and installation by our own crews.
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European settlement in Forestburg began in 1905, and Austin Bish and his four sons, who had arrived from Oregon that year, opened the area’s first underground “gopher hole” coal mine in 1907. The Canadian Northern Railway reached the area in 1916, and the village was surveyed and incorporated in 1919. Forestburg Collieries took over mining operations in 1949, and Luscar Coals Limited bought the company in 1950, introducing strip mining as a faster, safer alternative to digging underground.
The Diplomat Mine ran from 1949 to 1986, and the reclaimed site 15 kilometres southwest of town, designated a Provincial Historic Resource in 2007, now displays three retired mining shovels: a 1927 Marion 360, once the world’s largest mobile land machine; a 1937 Bucyrus 950-B nicknamed “Big Dipper,” represented on-site by its massive dipper bucket; and a 1944 Bucyrus-Erie 120-B. Regional tourism calls it Canada’s only surface coal mining museum. Coal from that mine once fueled the Battle River Generating Station, which opened in 1954 as Alberta’s oldest coal-fired power plant and grew to nearly 700 MW of capacity before transitioning off coal in 2021 as part of Alberta’s coal phase-out.
Agriculture, oil and gas, and power generation still anchor Forestburg’s economy today, alongside the Battle River Railway, a shortline cooperative headquartered in Forestburg since 2009 that carries agricultural and tourism traffic, including the Battle River Train Excursions. Locals keep busy at the golf club, an outdoor pool, a curling rink, a fitness club, a riding arena, tennis courts, and the Diplomat Trout Pond, and the calendar includes the summer Mud Bog in the ‘Burg and a November Christmas Market with more than 40 vendors.
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Learn moreMCSnet builds and runs its own network across rural Alberta. GigAir, fixed wireless and fiber to the home are our last-mile technologies, the final link into your home. GigAir and our newest fixed wireless run on two proven gigabit wireless platforms, with fiber to the home where available.
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Our newest fixed wireless uses Tarana next-generation fixed wireless, which delivers gigabit-class speeds even where trees or terrain block the line of sight, and reaches areas 60 GHz cannot.
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A dedicated fiber line into the building, built by MCSnet as our fiber network grows across rural Alberta.
High speeds at your home start with a fast network behind it. MCSnet runs its own fiber optic network linking many of our towers together, so the last-mile wireless and fiber that reach you are backed by a high-capacity fiber backbone. How fiber to the tower works.
Many areas are served by more than one technology. The speed you can get depends on your address, so check your address to see the plans available to you.
CHECK YOUR ADDRESS Learn more about our internet technologiesPlans start at $49.95 per month, and right now new customers get three months of unlimited internet at that price. Exact pricing depends on which service reaches your address, so the availability checker shows your options and their prices in about a minute.
Enter your address on our availability page. It checks your location against our network and shows what reaches you, along with the speeds and pricing available at that address. You can also call our local team at 1-866-390-3928.
GigAir and fixed wireless reach speeds up to 940 Mbps, and fiber to the home reaches speeds up to 1.5 Gbps where available. The speed at your home depends on your address, so check your address to see what you can get.
MCSnet fixed wireless is live across Forestburg and the surrounding farms, with plans starting at $49.95 per month and speeds up to 940 Mbps depending on your address.
Not yet. Fixed wireless is the current option in Forestburg, while MCSnet’s fiber build is under construction next door in Killam and Heisler as our footprint expands across the wider region.
Yes. Our tower network is built to reach the farms and acreages around Forestburg, not just the village itself. Enter your address on the availability checker and we will confirm your options.
It takes about a minute, and the answer comes from people who know the back roads.
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