Monthly Archive: January 2014

Scalzo Collection 95 St Edm

Edmonton Transit then and now – 95th St

In this then and now post (we do a lot of them) we look at three old photos contributed by a reader showing some Edmonton Transit trolley buses in service. Our goal is to revisit those locations to see what they look like today. In spite of the forty five...

Hillhurst School Calgary Alberta

Calgary then and now – Hillhurst School

We love producing these then and nows posts as a silly little diversion. In this T&N it’s a look at one of Calgary’s many (roughly) century old sandstone schools with this example found in the community of Hillhurst just north of downtown. First, we look at an old image showing...

Leduc Alberta elevators

Prairie Sentinels – Leduc Alberta

The larger grain elevator seen in this report, located in Leduc Alberta, dates from the late 1970s making it one of the last of its type built in the province. Saved from demolition when it was closed at the turn of the last century, it has been saved and made...

Grain elevators St Albert

Prairie Sentinels – St Albert Alberta

In this report we look at two grain elevators in the city of St Albert Alberta. Both are clearly well cared for and reside in an open air museum in the southwest corner of town. One of the pair is among the oldest in the province, but in spite of...

Beachcomber trailer

Not a Boler – a Beachcomber

In this report we look at a cute little trailer called a Beachcomber, the first one of this type we’ve ever seen. While it has a lot of Boler-like features (small size, fibreglass construction) its squared shape means it will never be confused with the other. In spite of that,...

Edmonton Norwood School

Edmonton then and now – Norwood School

For this adventure we head up north to Edmonton where we explore the century old Norwood School. We have a picture from an old post card and we want to see how much has changed since that original was taken so long ago. Amazingly, the building looks much as it...

CPR tracks Ogden

Calgary train scenes – then and now

For this then and now post, we look at a couple rail scenes in Calgary separated by over three decades. In the “then” image taken in by noted rail photographer Mike Dunham-Wilkie, we see Via Rail’s Canadian heading eastbound. For the “now” shot we revisit that same location to see...

CPR Bow River bridge

Bridge hunting – CPR Bow River (Nose Creek) Calgary

The massive train bridge seen here carries the CPR’s north/south mainline over the Bow River in Calgary, just east of downtown. Located next to Nose Creek and just up from Harvie Passage, a kayakers paradise, the bridge has stood here for what must be close to a century. The structure...

Lynnview Ridge sign

Lynnview Ridge

Built in the early 1980s, incredibly atop land that was once a dirty old oil refinery, the former community of Lynnview Ridge was demolished some ten years ago out of fears of soil contamination within the area. The big question on everyone’s mind is why would they build on what...

Scarboro United Church Calgary

Calgary then and now – Scarboro United Church

In this then and now post we look at the Scarboro United Church in the Calgary neighbourhood of the same name. The first image is from the late 1920s/early 1930s (a guess – from an old postcard) and second shows how it appears today. In spite of the seventy plus...

Collapsed dome building

The dome buildings and an ancient boxcar

While travelling random back roads we always seem to stumble across something interesting – old farms, machinery, all kinds of left over and abandoned stuff – it’s amazing what we find. An example of a very cool and rather strange discovery, happened upon totally by accident (as is often the...

Scalzo Collection 14th St SW

Calgary Transit then and now – 14th St SW trolley bus

In this then and now post we compare a 1969 picture showing a Calgary Transit trolley bus on the South Calgary run, to what the same location looks like today. In spite of the forty plus years that have passed since the first was taken, the immediate background has remained...

Thanksgiving house Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain then and now – Thanksgiving house

If you are a regular reader of this blog you have no doubt seen some of the movie “then and now” series we’ve posted here. Simply, we take a scene from a film shot in our area and revisit the location to see what it looks like today. If conditions...

Locomotive Coleman Collieries

The little yellow locomotive

Known affectionately (to us anyway) as the “little yellow locomotive”, this tiny engine sits on a disused siding at the abandoned Coleman Collieries coal processing plant in the Crowsnest Pass. It once worked at this very site and when the operation closed, it was simply left behind and forgotten. Looking...

Frank Slide Alberta

Frank Alberta then and now

In this then and now post we look at the small community of Frank Alberta. The first image shows downtown shortly after the famous Frank Slide disaster occurred and the second, the same view today. In both, the jumble of rocks and boulders stands out in the background. The first...

Grain Elevator Ft MacLeod

Prairie Sentinels: Fort MacLeod Alberta

This post has been retired, but the pics kept for your enjoyment, and an updated version can be found here: Prairie Sentinels: Fort MacLeod Alberta. See you there! If you like grain elevators… Prairie Sentinels: Willingdon Alberta. Buffalo 2000. Prairie Sentinels – Tessier Saskatchewan. If you’d like to know more...

13' Boler trailer

New Years Day Boler

This little Boler trailer was seen on the first day 2014 and so becomes our first sighting of the year. We’re off to a good start! It was found completely by chance. as it often the case, just outside the small community of Lundbreck at the entrance to the historic...

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