Comments on: Last Houses in Victoria Park https://www.bigdoer.com/47076/exploring-history/last-houses-in-victoria-park/ Offbeat Adventures - Lost & Forgotten Places - A Slice of History - Connections & Comparisons - The Beer Parlour Project🍺 Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:49:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/47076/exploring-history/last-houses-in-victoria-park/#comment-35524 Fri, 20 May 2022 18:28:54 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=47076#comment-35524 In reply to Ellie DeRocher.

Wow, how things have changed. There used to be hundreds of houses in this neighbourhood and these the last to be lived in. So many parking lots.

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/47076/exploring-history/last-houses-in-victoria-park/#comment-35523 Fri, 20 May 2022 18:28:08 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=47076#comment-35523 In reply to Elcamino Pasztor.

Your grandma?

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/47076/exploring-history/last-houses-in-victoria-park/#comment-35522 Fri, 20 May 2022 18:27:55 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=47076#comment-35522 In reply to Connie Biggart.

I know. On this hand, signs of prosperity and on the other, something abandoned and forgotten.

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/47076/exploring-history/last-houses-in-victoria-park/#comment-35521 Fri, 20 May 2022 18:27:35 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=47076#comment-35521 In reply to Pari.

Yikes! There was some weird noises coming out of the one when we visited.

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/47076/exploring-history/last-houses-in-victoria-park/#comment-35520 Fri, 20 May 2022 18:27:07 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=47076#comment-35520 In reply to Brad Allen.

We’re certain they were placed by the homeless people living in these houses (which I guess no longer makes them homeless). You could hear some weird goings-on inside and we found other strange and even disturbing messages scrawled on the sidewalk out front (unfit for sharing).

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/47076/exploring-history/last-houses-in-victoria-park/#comment-35519 Fri, 20 May 2022 18:25:48 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=47076#comment-35519 In reply to Nick Charles Acton.

It’s all vanishing so fast. Blink and it’s gone!

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/47076/exploring-history/last-houses-in-victoria-park/#comment-35518 Fri, 20 May 2022 18:25:00 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=47076#comment-35518 In reply to Kenny Silversteen.

We’re always careful.

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/47076/exploring-history/last-houses-in-victoria-park/#comment-35517 Fri, 20 May 2022 18:24:39 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=47076#comment-35517 In reply to Jo Tennant.

Everything must change I guess.

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/47076/exploring-history/last-houses-in-victoria-park/#comment-35516 Fri, 20 May 2022 18:24:22 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=47076#comment-35516 In reply to Enoch Sales.

Now, now…
(Edit: just noticed your username, Enoch.)

]]> By: Enoch Sales https://www.bigdoer.com/47076/exploring-history/last-houses-in-victoria-park/#comment-35514 Fri, 20 May 2022 04:27:49 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=47076#comment-35514 Good riddance to those eyesores!

]]> By: Jo Tennant https://www.bigdoer.com/47076/exploring-history/last-houses-in-victoria-park/#comment-35507 Fri, 20 May 2022 00:51:41 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=47076#comment-35507 It’s progress but there certainly is a loss of character.

]]> By: Kenny Silversteen https://www.bigdoer.com/47076/exploring-history/last-houses-in-victoria-park/#comment-35515 Thu, 19 May 2022 18:19:55 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=47076#comment-35515 You're brave to go down there. ]]> By: Nick Charles Acton https://www.bigdoer.com/47076/exploring-history/last-houses-in-victoria-park/#comment-35512 Thu, 19 May 2022 18:12:13 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=47076#comment-35512 Great job documenting Calgary’s older neighborhoods before they’re gone.

]]> By: Brad Allen https://www.bigdoer.com/47076/exploring-history/last-houses-in-victoria-park/#comment-35510 Thu, 19 May 2022 18:12:06 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=47076#comment-35510 Odd, none of that looks ‘official’ by any extent; hand written with no military seals or even one from the city. Someone looking to save their private militia stash location?

]]> By: Pari https://www.bigdoer.com/47076/exploring-history/last-houses-in-victoria-park/#comment-35513 Thu, 19 May 2022 16:56:35 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=47076#comment-35513 My sister lives in the closest tower, facing east, and she told me of some wild goings-on in those houses after they were vacated.

]]> By: Connie Biggart https://www.bigdoer.com/47076/exploring-history/last-houses-in-victoria-park/#comment-35509 Thu, 19 May 2022 16:39:40 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=47076#comment-35509 What a contrast between that gleaming tower and the old homes.

]]> By: Elcamino Pasztor https://www.bigdoer.com/47076/exploring-history/last-houses-in-victoria-park/#comment-35508 Thu, 19 May 2022 15:39:03 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=47076#comment-35508 One of those was grandma’s house.

]]> By: Ellie DeRocher https://www.bigdoer.com/47076/exploring-history/last-houses-in-victoria-park/#comment-35511 Thu, 19 May 2022 10:59:17 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=47076#comment-35511 Used to visit my grandparents in Vic Park for Thanksgiving dinner in the 70’s. The neighbourhood was run down then, but they kept their property up nice. Now there’s a parking lot where the house once stood.

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/47076/exploring-history/last-houses-in-victoria-park/#comment-35133 Wed, 29 Sep 2021 13:12:06 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=47076#comment-35133 In reply to Jason Sailer.

Ghost signs are such a window on the past.

]]> By: Jason Sailer https://www.bigdoer.com/47076/exploring-history/last-houses-in-victoria-park/#comment-35130 Tue, 28 Sep 2021 18:34:51 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=47076#comment-35130 A nice brick grocery building! Especially with the ghost sign!

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