Category: Short Subjects

We make it mandatory to take a break from the road on long trips and if not done our bodies pay for it big time. This stop ‘n’ stretch finds us in Didsbury Alberta and to getting the blood flowing we randomly walk about. There’s plenty of historic buildings, and...

Here’s a little service station in a “blink and you’ll miss it” kind of town. We’re looking at Elnora Motors and it’s one of a handful of businesses in sleepy Elnora Alberta. They dispense fuel (right on the road), fix and maintain all makes and models and distribute parts. In...

These random picks are some great fun and surprising in that you never know what will get posted. So far (knock on wood) it’s nothing embarrassing either and for that we thank our lucky stars! Here’s what we do, close our eyes (figuratively) and pick a card dump, subfolder and...

The CPR’s Lacombe Subdivision parallels Highway #12 for a fair distance east of the QE11. This track begins in its namesake community (with a connection to the firm’s N/S mainline) and terminates in Stettler where it connects with Alberta Prairie Railway Excursions (the Stettler to Big Valley tour train). A...

We take the circuitous route when possible and with this comes some fabulous unexpected discoveries. Case in point, it’s something really interesting (to us at least) found while exploring a small Alberta town, a Crown Supercoach bus. Made in Los Angeles California by Crown Coach these were once common in...

Here’s a faded sign from long ago, oddly left behind when the business it was connected to closed decades back. Hidden away and only visible from the alley, we suspect few people even notice. We’re at a place once called Leong’s Food Store in Calgary’s Southwest and they operated out...

We really know nothing about our subject, this seemingly abandoned boat but we thought the photos were so nice we just had to share them. You mean we’re not going to blab on endlessly? Just photos? How unlike you! Nowhere close to water and going by the name of Pricess...

We’ve passed by Irricana United Church a gazillions time on the road to adventure but never stopped to take a closer look. Silly us. Then one day, after coming back from a gig at a local museum (the Team loves to volunteer) and with the sky soft pastel hues, comes...

Whether we’re travelling in town on local business, on extended road-trips for fun or even on assignment (rare these days thanks to the pandemic), we’re on the lookout for vintage metal. Be it an old school day to day driver or restored classic, we play no favourites. Be it never...

At the time of its removal a year or so ago it was the oldest such structure in Calgary and without a doubt the most challenging to navigate. With steep stairs and a narrow walkway, it was not for the timid. We’re speaking of the 14th St Pedestrian Bridge, now...

Here’s something not uncommon out in rural areas back in the day, a hand pump from which you got water. That’s how it was done for many folks and short of dipping a pail in a nearby river or pond, was about as simple as it got. Need some good...

King Edward VII reigned over the British Empire for only a brief period, from 1902, on the passing of his mother Queen Victoria, till his own untimely death in 1910. Brief as his tenure was he left his mark on Canada, a fledging country still finding its own way at...

Deep inside an industrial park, in Calgary’s Bonnybrook neighbourhood, it’s something strange and unexpected. Here among all the trucking firms, metal working shops and compounds full of cannibalized vehicles; here between busy Ogden Road and the sewer plant, it’s a couple small houses side by side. Tucked away behind a...

How amazing, an airplane over seventy five years old that’s still in service. We’re looking at a legendary Douglas DC3, the backbone of many fledgling airlines back in the day. And they were heavily used by the military circa World War Two, as a C-47 Skytrain (or Dakota in Commonwealth...