Comments on: This is Champion Alberta https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/ Offbeat Adventures - Lost & Forgotten Places - A Slice of History - Connections & Comparisons - The Beer Parlour Project🍺 Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:49:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34363 Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:49:51 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34363 In reply to Neil Fotoman Young.

You said it!

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34362 Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:48:57 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34362 In reply to Darice Kok.

Why thank you!

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34361 Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:48:44 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34361 In reply to Joanne Peberdy.

And aren’t those the best ones…

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34360 Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:48:26 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34360 In reply to Christina Dubetz McIntyre.

How cool!

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34359 Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:48:17 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34359 In reply to Lori Friend.

Our pleasure. Livery? Did we miss something?

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34358 Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:47:42 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34358 In reply to Tony Dutchak.

That’s always our goal.

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34357 Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:47:05 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34357 In reply to Michelle Mahoney.

Glad you like them!

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34356 Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:46:52 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34356 In reply to Gwen Goldstein.

Thank you!

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34355 Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:46:41 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34355 In reply to Jackie Boros.

They’re the brave ones!

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34354 Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:46:21 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34354 In reply to Mel Ellie Eberwein.

There’s so much disillusion with the big city, but at the same time that’s where the money is. It’s a double edge sword I guess, but still I could see what you said playing out to some degree.

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34353 Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:43:20 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34353 In reply to Hillary VanHuessen.

Thank you!

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34352 Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:43:09 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34352 In reply to Sylvie Mills.

Each of these small towns is a treasure!

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34351 Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:42:37 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34351 In reply to Fionna Pavillion.

It’s a vibe we love.

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34350 Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:42:21 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34350 In reply to Paul Delamere.

Yes, their days are numbered! The last couple years we’ve been seeing long strings of these Alberta, Saskatchewan and Government of Canada Trudeau grain hoppers in storage on various side tracks. They’ve put on a lot of miles and look well worn out.

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34349 Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:39:07 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34349 In reply to Renee.

Amen to that!

]]> By: Neil Fotoman Young https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34339 Wed, 23 Jun 2021 00:19:48 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34339 Love these Southern AB towns!

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34306 Mon, 21 Jun 2021 21:20:39 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34306 In reply to Connie Biggart.

And you took some of them!

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34220 Mon, 21 Jun 2021 15:17:36 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34220 In reply to Harmony Klipp.

Wow, that’s deep. Thank you.

]]> By: Darice Kok https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34344 Sat, 19 Jun 2021 15:23:48 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34344 Absolutely beautiful!!! You captured history.

]]> By: Joanne Peberdy https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34338 Sat, 19 Jun 2021 11:09:04 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34338 …Memories of our childhood!

]]> By: Christina Dubetz McIntyre https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34334 Sat, 19 Jun 2021 03:07:29 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34334 I lived in Champion for one year and taught school there – 1975-1976.

]]> By: Lori Friend https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34340 Sat, 19 Jun 2021 02:15:23 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34340 I had an opportunity to tour that hotel and the old livery next to it years ago. There were so many cool things between these buildings and we got the local history at the time. Love this place! Thanks for capturing it!!

]]> By: Tony Dutchak https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34341 Sat, 19 Jun 2021 01:59:05 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34341 You have captured the essence of a village.

]]> By: Michelle Mahoney https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34345 Sat, 19 Jun 2021 01:55:50 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34345 WOW
Amazing photos!

]]> By: Gwen Goldstein https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34336 Fri, 18 Jun 2021 22:45:22 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34336 Gorgeous photos!

]]> By: Jackie Boros https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34333 Fri, 18 Jun 2021 21:20:50 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34333 Hats off to any business that sets up shop in a vacant building.

]]> By: Mel Ellie Eberwein https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34342 Fri, 18 Jun 2021 20:44:25 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34342 I truly believe we are on the brink of time when we will see the resurrection of village life.
The baby boomer generation, having lived in the noise, the crime, the impersonal lifestyle,and high cost of city life are looking to alternatives.
When you can sell your half million dollar house in a city and buy something equal for a quarter the price away from the life that is making you prematurely old…..where do I sign up?

]]> By: Hillary VanHuessen https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34343 Fri, 18 Jun 2021 20:02:45 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34343 You captured this wonderfully!

]]> By: Sylvie Mills https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34346 Fri, 18 Jun 2021 17:27:54 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34346 Way cool! I used to take my kids out on Sunday drives and we came upon many small towns like as this. It would be wonderful if we could preserve some of their history. Thank you for taking the time to post!

]]> By: Fionna Pavillion https://www.bigdoer.com/44173/exploring-history/this-is-champion-alberta/#comment-34337 Fri, 18 Jun 2021 16:29:01 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44173#comment-34337 Capturing the small town experience!

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