Shaunavon Saskatchewan then and now
This post has been updated and can be found here: Shaunavon Saskatchewan ~70 years apart.
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Date of adventure: Circa 1946 and May 2014.
Location: Shaunavon, SK.
Shaunavon has the widest main street that I remember!
So many small prairie towns, likewise, had a wide main street like that. Seems oddly out of place today.
Hello Chris and Connie great research on Shaunavon, I take it that the CPR station is gone. I’m posting on another board IHC 185, if you look under my Canadian Private Labels you will see my Swiss pocket watch from there. It was nice meeting you at Champion Park last spring. When are you going to come out and visit me?
So nice to hear from you Larry. No train station when we were there. Was it in place until recently? Looked at the watch. Nice. Interesting it’s marked Shaunavon! It was nice to meet you to. I tried emailing you a few times on recent memory but it said your mailbox was full. Would love to come out a chat! Maybe I should get your phone number instead. Maybe private message me if you read this.
Hi Chris, about the photo of Shaunavon from the late ’40s: The building at the far left which is too blurred to see clearly is Christ the King Catholic church. I know because I was born in 1941 and grew up in Shaunavon. I know the shape of that building. Before the Catholic separate school was built, there was a grades 1 – 8 school in the basement of that church. I attended all 8 years.
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It really hasn’t changed much. Kind of refreshing.
I know, I love that time seems to have stood still here. Neat effect.
My dad lived in Shaunavon for years, years ago.
Heard from a large number of former residents or people whose relatives were former residents the last while. Interesting!
Very cool!
Very cool!
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