Monthly Archive: November 2015

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Figure 8…of FEAR!

Spectators gather, cold beers in hand and the engines roar to life. Brave warriors and their fine metal steeds line up and the flag drops. Let the carnage begin! There’s the acrid smell of grease and stinking exhaust, the sequel of tires, the sickening sound of tearing metal followed by...

Trillium Jubilee Trailer

Trillium Jubilee

Spotted in the tiny community of Bow Island Alberta in the spring of 2015 is this fine looking Trillium Jubilee. While the Trillium make is the most common small fibreglass trailer out there, there are in fact more of them than Bolers, this particular model is super rare. It’s certainly...

St Patrick's Island Bridge

Urban Trek – Bow River Loop

Calgary’s Pathway Network is extensive. There are hundreds of kilometres of them heading to and from all corners of the the city. The route we’ll describe here makes good use of some sections, forming a good-sized loop that parallels the Bow River, both coming and going, just east of downtown....

Mighty BIGDoer-mobile

Fort MacLeod – Fort Motel

This post has been updated and can be found here: Fort Motel Fort MacLeod Alberta. More Then & Nows… CC Snowdon Building Calgary. The Highway Bridge at Wardner BC. Calgary Then & Now: From Tom Campbell Hill. If you wish more information on what you’ve seen here, by all means...

St Eugene Mine tailings dump

Upper workings of the St Eugene

Today we get to visit an especially interesting place, the remains of the extensive St Eugene Mine in the East Kootenays of British Columbia. We’ve received special permission to explore all the upper workings, level after level each higher than the last, ascending up and up and up for hundreds...

Cox Hill Sibbald Kananaskis

Cox Hill

A modest height bump in the Sibbald region of Kananaskis, Cox Hill is most often summited via the north approach. The trail is official, so it’s well maintained, is wide and has a fairly gentle grade the whole way. It’s quite doable even if snow is on the ground (like...

Rural Alberta bridge

By Dominion Bridge

The Dominion Bridge Company was once an industrial juggernaut, a giant in the industry with factories all over the country. Not just a maker of bridges, although that was a huge part of their business, their output was all manner of fabricated, forged and cast metal components and machinery for...

Doukhobors Alberta cemetery

Anastasia Lords

Today’s subject we briefly touch on a little known chapter in the province’s history, the life of Anastasia Holoboff (or Holuboff, sometimes Holobova, less common Golubova), aka Anastasia Lords. She was the one time spiritual leader of an little known Alberta based Doukhobor group and is interred near the former...

Mighty BIGDoer-mobile

Arrowwood Alberta then and now

This post has been updated and can be found here: Grain Elevators of Arrowwood Alberta (x2). More grain elevators… Prairie Sentinels: Fort MacLeod Alberta. Neidpath Grain Elevators Revisited. Grain Elevators of DeWinton. If you wish more information on what you’ve seen here, by all means contact us! Date of adventure:...

30 Foot Fishbowl Bus

Baby Fishbowl

The General Motors produced New Look, “Fishbowl” to those who know and love them, was the most common transit bus of the 1960s-1980s. There were tens of thousands of them made in the US and Canada and nearly every transit agency, big or small, had some on the roster. Many...

Door Jamb Mountain

McConnell Point

A small bump among a sea of high peaks, McConnell Point offers up some pretty credible views from its rocky summit, despite its modest stature. Seen by many, the busy Trans-Canada Highway passes right below, it doesn’t seem to be a terribly popular objective. That’s changing however. The route we...

Carefree Trailer

Carefree

This Boler-like and Boler-sized trailer is a rare one, the first of this make we’ve ever seen in fact (we since stumbled across another). It’s called a Carefree and depending on the source was made in Trail BC or the nearby town of Genelle. No matter where, they seem to...

Exploring a mine

Mystery Mine

This little hole in the side of a mountain is located near Cranbrook BC. It’s a mine, not a full scale operation but rather test workings to explore the potential of an ore discovery. It’s called a “prospect” and those who worked it way back went would have done as...

Crescent Heights High School

Calgary then and now – Crescent Heights High School

The location for today’s then and now shoot is Crescent Heights High School in Calgary. The old photo used (from about the 1960s) comes in from an associate and shows a group of students participating in some sort of demonstration in front of the building’s main entrance. On our visit things were a bit quieter.

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