Industrial Park Life
Industrial Park Life: here’s an odd little home in a Calgary neighbourhood full of warehouses and factories. A train track runs right out front of the property and the road past is gravel (or muck when wet). This dwelling seems so out of place, but in the past, there was a fair number of residential homes out here in Alyth/Bonnybrook and a few stragglers remain even today.
The shack is small and by our rough estimate, somewhere around five hundred square feet, so the size of a two car garage. The city doesn’t seem to know when it was built, but it doesn’t show up in old aerial photos until the late 1950s. Before that there was some other small buildings here, but not anywhere close in shape of form. The plot had nothing on it in the 1920s and at that point it was out in the sticks. In the 1960s, it was surrounded my many homes, but today, it’s featureless warehouses.
The home is vacant but the door was ajar and clearly someone was inside. We could hear a rustling and hushed mumbling. No way we were hanging around to know more, so we made our exit after a quick snapshot. Yes, we frequent gritty neighbourhoods and find them strangely compelling, but to a point.
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Date of adventure: September, 2021.
Location: Calgary, AB.
Industrial Park Life: this odd little house.
Surprising to find houses still in these parts of town!
There’s couple house on this same road that have a front yard facing the train tracks. How odd. Old aerial photos show this neighbourhood was a mix of industrial and residential into the 1950s, and even today there’s a few still homes that are lived in. Others have been made into offices.
That would make sense!