02/27/2026
Fossils for this week's 10th Anniversary, as the Currie Dino Museum was hatched the same year!
Our company began in Grande Prairie, where, in his first week living there, Tim had a chance encounter with someone responsible for bringing many fossils to life. Years later, Roy Bickell would be a friend and mentor who supported Tim as he started Butterfly Effect Communications. Roy was witty, energetic, and always up for exploring. Sadly, he died days before the company began operations.
While the chance encounter resulted in a years-long friendship, Roy also immediately voluntold Tim 😆 into a role to help build the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum in Wembley, just outside Grande Prairie and minutes from one of the densest bonebeds in the world. For context, in one (short) summer alone, they excavated four full pachyrhinosaurus skulls, including one with scales intact!
Over five years, Tim was part of a large team of volunteers and staff who worked to open a museum. This included connecting with other nearby museums, such as Tumbler Ridge – part of the fossil freeway. When the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum opened in 2015, it was our first common good project. We led the communications and dignitary team for the grand opening, along with a whole bunch of other random tasks. It was such an incredible experience with an incredible group of volunteers, thanks, Roy.
We’ll have more photos from this experience on another Film Friday.
Image descriptions:
1. Ever caught a fish that big? Currie Dinosaur Museum
2. There's always a bigger dinosaur. Tumbler Ridge Museum
3. Fish swimming above the eye of a dinosaur skeleton at the Currie Dinosaur Museum.
4. Roy Bickell plaque at the Currie Dinosaur Museum
5. The skeleton at the Currie Dinosaur Museum looks hungry
6. Tim during the first view of the completed museum in 2015.
7. Roy's rocks. Those are part of a small collection of thousands of fossils he collected over 40 years, including a discovery that confirmed Alberta was once mostly an ocean.
8 & 9. Dinosaur footprints left depressions in mud long ago, which hardened into rock in Tumbler Ridge.
10. The exterior of the new Currie Dinosaur Museum in 2015. The Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum Tumbler Ridge UNESCO Global Geopark
