Category: Boler!

Vanguard 1700 Boler

Vanguard Neonex 1700 Boler

A few factories in Canada were involved in Boler production at various times and making sense of who built what and when is sometimes a tall order. Depending on the year and/or model, they could come from plants in Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta or BC. There might have been others too....

Drab Calgary Winter

Another Drab Calgary Winter

Let’s face it, winter in this city isn’t always pretty and with each chinook things turn brown and dust covered. A new dump of snow freshens up the scene, but soon after those warm winds melt it all away, and it’s depressing and gloomy again. That’s how it plays out...

Church Home

One Frigid Sunday Morning

We can’t begin to tell you how chilly it was this blustery and bleak Sunday morning. Biting, icy, frigid, finger numbing, snotsicle forming, Winnipeg cold. Yes, that bad. But there’s a Boler to photograph and we’re obsessed so brave the low temperatures for a snap or two. Can’t feel any...

Alamo Concentrator

Coming Soon in 2024 (2)!

Coming soon in 2024 (part two): more amazing places the Team has visited and will be posting about in the next couple months or so. As always, it’s a varied menu of subjects, to keep things interesting, and here’s the list. There’s mining remains, lost cemeteries, roadside memories, something “super”,...

Great Beater Challenge 2023

Coming Soon in 2024 (1)!

Coming soon in 2024 (1st installment): presenting places we’ve explored the last year or so and the posts that will come from these incredible adventures. We’re talking a wild assortment and we’re sure you’ll enjoy every single one as much as we did documenting them. We simply love what we...

Deerfoot Trail Boler

Smoky Times on Deerfoot Trail Calgary

Catching a Boler in motion out in the wild does not happen often and requires luck on your side. They’re elusive foes at the best of times and when it plays out it’s by random chance. The stars have to align. Today was just such a day and here’s one...

Boler Bar High River

The Boler Bar High River Alberta

The Boler Bar High River Alberta: they have the coffee and we got the sticker. It’s a good day! We have a special fondness for Bolers, but you already knew that, and repurposing one into a mobile coffee kiosk seems like a stroke of genius. The two were meant to...

17th Ave SW Calgary Boler

Smoky Times on 17th Ave SW Calgary

“Thanks” to prevailing winds, smoke from distant forest fires will sometimes blanket the city of Calgary during the summer. It’s just how it plays out and the skies will often remain hazy for days or even weeks on end. Heaven help those with respiratory problems and even for people who...

Boler Crowsnest Pass Alberta

Boler Bob

It’s Boler Bob, a little egg-camper from the 1970s spotted for sale in the Crownest Pass of Alberta in August 2021. It’s not ours, so please don’t message us. It happens every time we post – remember we have this weird obsession and only photograph them. These trailers are always...

MV Columbia Ferry

Shelter Bay Boler (+ MV Columbia)

Shelter Bay Boler: here’s a little fibreglass trailer discovered in the Columbia-Shuswap region of British Columbia and a little south of Revelstoke. It’s seen at a landing while waiting for and later onboard the MV Columbia Upper Arrow Lakes ferry. The water crossing is otherwise too wide for a bridge...

Triple E Surfside

Triple E Surfside

Flashback to a couple summers ago (how time flies) and we’re out cruising backroads of British Columbia. While exploring one of our homebases for the trip, in this case Revelstoke, we came to a realization. It turns out this mountain community is a real hotspot for little fibreglass trailers. Remember,...

Boler!

Boler!

That heat’s insufferable and smoke from forest fires happening somewhere else on the continent hangs heavy the air. It’s hot and stuffy. Just ;ook up to that ugly brown sky and feel the oppression as it sucks the life out of you. We’re in Castlegar BC, it’s the summer of...

Boler Hunting

Boler Hunting in BC

The date is summer 2021 (we’re so behind), the place is beautiful BC, Columbia region, and we’re out Boler hunting. Of course, it’s only just one of the things we do and we’ll keep busy exploring backroads, seeking out adventures and never sitting still. It’s what we do and this...

Yellow Boler

Yellow!

Yellow! Don’t you agree it’s good to colour coordinate? Here’s a nice little Boler found in the British Columbia mountain community of Revelstoke and it’s pretty close to the BIGDoer shade, so of course we approve. All around here there’s majestic mountain scenery and here we are obsessing over a...

El Camino Appreciation

El Camino Appreciation Walk Boler

This Boler was spotted in a Calgary neighbourhood during one of our annual El Camino appreciation walks. We did the legendary trail in Spain in 2018 and getting out like this each year always takes us back. It’s like reliving the experience and for a day, we’re Perigrinos once again....

Highway Surf Side

Trans-Canada Highway Surf Side

There we were returning from a little hike out in Kananaskis Country (here: Eagle Hill) and out of nowhere it’s a chance discovery. It’s a highway Surf Side, caught along the Trans-Canada and a fitting end to a great road-trip adventure. It’s like the cherry on top – a good...

Dino Egg Boler Trailer

Dino Egg Boler (Streets of Edmonton)

There we were driving about the provincial capitol and minding our own business, when out of nowhere something catches our eye. A couple blocks ahead, a familiar form is spotted, on the move, and soon a chase ensues. Always at posted speeds that is. If it times right, we just...

Two Bolers Calgary

Two Bolers For The Price Of One

We’re getting two for the price of one and here’s a pair of Bolers that when not in use are stored out back of a home in an alley. These ones are well known to us and we’ve passed them by many times before (see:Bolers, After Dark). They’re in a...

Boler Spotting Game

Another Random Boler

Long story short: so there we were searching out the former home of an artifact from the Pioneer Acres Museum collection (in Irricana Alberta) and what’s that we see over there? Out of the corner of our eyes, it’s a special distraction, something unexpected but never unwelcomed. Parked down the...

Channel Surfing Boler

Channel Surfing Boler

We find them even watching TV and in fact it’s happened quite a few times now. Here’s a channel surfing Boler seen while searching aimlessly for something to watch and not having much luck at it. Here’s it on some rural channel (don’t recall) and the show on the subject...

Triple E Surfside

Triple E Surfside

Triple E Manufacturing of Manitoba produced a Boler-like trailer starting sometime in the mid-1970s and early into the following decade. Some reports say 1980, others 1981, so make of it what you will. It’s called the Surfside (or Surf Side – two words – or sometimes stylized as SurfºSide), more...

Any Time is Boler Time

Any Time is Boler Time

An old saying warns us any time is train time, but in our world the same holds true for little fibreglass trailers and they always see to appear randomly out of nowhere. Of course, we’re subconsciously always on the prowl, but still it’s amazing how many we come across. So...

Backalley Boler

Backalley Boler

Backalley Boler: the lanes behind homes are a favourite haunt of little fibreglass trailers and in towns big or small, they account for a good number of our discoveries. We’re always looking down them and this action is often rewarded. Parking spots such as this are a convenient place to...

Calgary Boler Camper

Boler!

If you see one of these little fibreglass trailers, you have a duty to shout it loud and shout it proud. It’s what we did with this example, discovered by chance on a Calgary Street and in the fall of 2020. We always end up looking stupid, but whatever, and...

Boler & Puma

Boler & Puma

Presenting two camping trailers from two different eras and side by side. The first is a modern example outside our field of interest and the second, something we’re hopelessly obsessed with. You guessed it, the latter’s a member of Boler fraternity and day or night, they’re on our mind. The...

K-Line Mark 1

K-Line Mark 1

We’re looking at a rare breed of little fibreglass trailer and get this, it was spotted maybe thirty clicks from its birthplace in Red Deer Alberta. The location is a town just south of that central Alberta city, and this a completely random find. There we were just driving by...

Nearly Hidden Boler

Nearly Hidden

We’ll award bonus points for difficulty in the Boler spotting game for this one. This nearly hidden example was only visible from a very narrow angle & only then at the right moment, if one was looking back over their shoulder. I don’t know how Connie does it, yet here...

Highway Boler

Highway Boler

More often than not the little fibreglass trailers we stumble across are static, that is parked somewhere in storage or maybe in use at a campground. To find one in motion, like seen here, is less common and worthy of note. A lot of stars have to align for this...

Beachcomber Trailer

Beachcomber Sunset

We’re always on the hunt and based on our own observations, we’re looking at something uncommon here. We’ve only documented a few in the last ten years and that’s of the thousands of little fibreglass trailers we’ve stumbled across. Research data confirms it too. Here’s a Beachcomber, not just a...

Over the Fence Boler

Over the Fence

We’re always on Boler patrol, and when out for a walk keep our eyes open for our sometimes elusive quarry. Still, we find more than our share, and while having keen senses helps, in the end it’s mostly by dumb luck. In some instances, like here, it pays to be...

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