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Presenting a most fantastic find, an old house and outbuildings, long abandoned, lonely and isolated, sitting there in a field with nothing else speaking of human habitation to be seen in any direction. And take in those stunning Alberta Badlands as a backdrop…a more picturesque setting could not be imagined…. (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 1 in comments.)

On a frigid weekend, April 2017, Chris ‘n’ Connie roll into east-central Saskatchewan accompanied by friends. We’re here filming a documentary “Forgotten Prairie”, a production highlighting this crazy obsession we have with all things abandoned and old. This day’s stop is the tiny little (almost) ghost town of Hoosier Saskatchewan…. (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 1 in comments.)

Seen here, odd bits and pieces, random stuff abandoned in nature found while out exploring Minburn and Two Hills Counties east of Edmonton. We’re there to documented some specific subjects and these were discovered travelling between them. There’s old farms, forgotten metal, empty buildings found on some street in a… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 1 in comments.)

One weekend every July for the last few years, a group of close friends gets together and explores the countryside in search of historic and abandoned places. It’s always an epic adventure, taking in abandoned farms, charming villages, near ghost towns and vintage vehicles long put out to pasture. But… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 0 in comments.)

Railway history time! And today’s subject, what’s left of Troup Junction along the shores of Kootenay Lake near Nelson BC. The former line, going back to the late nineteenth century, has been abandoned for decades. On a small jut of land, they managed to fit in an amazing array of… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 0 in comments.)

…time to time thereafter. For most of its existence however, it has been completely empty and for the last number of decades, simply abandoned*. Open to the elements, she’s looking a bit rough but seems to be structurally pretty sound. To protect the property I’m afraid we’re going to have… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 0 in comments.)

The long abandoned Laing Farm House, located on the vast and endless Alberta Plains northeast of Calgary in Kneehill County, was constructed just over a century ago, A wonderfully picturesque building, even in its current state of advanced decay, it stands alone far from any road or access on the… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 0 in comments.)

…a former CPR line, abandoned only a few months before my visit. They had yet to pull the rails up at this point. There is a link at the bottom of this text to a more detailed article on the yard. 4) The Princeton BC train station. This plain structure… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 0 in comments.)

The hamlet of Chancellor Alberta is tiny a dot on the map. It’s home to a handful of people, an interesting community hall and sitting alongside an abandoned railway branch line, an old grain elevator. The latter two structures will be the subject of this report. First up is the… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 0 in comments.)

…Torrington Alberta being town down. On this day I was doing deliveries north of this town, near Wimborne. It was the last drop off of the day, so on the way home I decided it would be fun to drive along the recently abandoned CPR Acme subdivision, which happened to… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 0 in comments.)

It’s five words seen time and again in the comments section of our website and our social media accounts when we post about an abandoned farm or ranch house: “if these walls could talk”. And it most certainly applies here. Take in this little stone house, abandoned on the remote… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 0 in comments.)

…railway continued to serve the one elevator here (the AWP) and the others in Finnegan until the mid 1970s before the line was abandoned. Traffic was by the sparse and the line a maintenance headache. I was not able to find anything about Dorthy’s train station (I assumed it had… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 0 in comments.)

…seen in any direction. Interestingly however, there’s another abandoned farm, out of sight over a rise, not all that far away, which we also visited on this adventure. It’ll be seen in another post. So there’s two abandoned places, within shouting distance of each other, and not a single thing… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 2 in comments.)

It’s happened again. It happens all too often these days. We’ve given the okay to go inside some abandoned place and document it but with one one big stipulation. That is, we speak of it vaguely, making doubly sure we don’t give anything away in the photos or text that… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 2 in comments.)

…abandoned road bridge. A nearby railway bridge… Abandoned CPR Bow River bridge. More abandoned bridges… Bridge hunting – Rosebud River Valley. If you wish more information on what you’ve seen here, by all means contact us! Date: May, 2015. Location: Near Hays, AB. Article sources: Hays history book: From Sod… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 2 in comments.)

Delia Alberta is a small community located just northeast of Drumheller. It sits along an abandoned Canadian National Railways line (tracks still in place on our visit) and was once home to a good number of grain elevators, all nothing but a memory today save for one, the subject of… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 2 in comments.)

Given the sheer number of forgotten and abandoned places we get to visit (and we so love being that busy), it’s inevitable we cross paths with ones we’ve documented before. Quite honestly it’s sometimes hard to return as often the building or site is rarely as it was – for… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 1 in comments.)

…and we see this builder’s plate all the time when out exploring. 1) In Kirkpatrick Alberta. 4-5) We’re in the tiny community of Hesketh nestled in a little valley. There’s a few homes here (population is said to be 10), a disused school, a long abandoned railway line and plenty… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

Amazingly one can find the remains of long abandoned railway lines deep inside the city of Calgary. And here’s a most interesting section. There’s the old roadbed, grassed over and a dumping ground for things unwanted and most fascinating to the railway archaeologist, telegraph poles, cross-bucks and all still standing… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

Our little group of history nuts has visited the Hanna Alberta Roundhouse many times over the years. In the past it stood there abandoned with an uncertain future and we fully expected when next we returned it’d be gone. Fast forward to today and the building (since late 2013), is… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

…is ready to support trains for another hundred years. It’s one solid hunk of steel. Know even more about this structure… Bridge Hunting CNR Bow River. More bridge hunting… Bridge Hunting – Scotsguard Saskatchewan (Abandoned, made of Cement). Bridge Hunting – Bullpound Alberta (Abandoned). Highway #524 abandoned road bridge (Abandoned)…. (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

…last one room school in the province did not close until the early 2000s. In the area and also seen this same day, a long abandoned farm house. It’s believed it dates from the 1910s and was abandoned in the 1950s, meaning it’s been empty longer than it was lived… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

…is said to afford an upper floor with a bit more open space. Construction wise, it’s challenging to build and as such would be more costly. Gothic Arch: a picturesque barn in an abandoned farm yard. Researched, written and photographed by Chris Doering and Connie Biggart (BIGDoer/Synd) The rafters that… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

This old grain elevator stands alone in a field, battered and beaten, having been abandoned for many decades. We’ve seen a lot of these structures in our travels and this is perhaps the most sorry example yet. But it has this amazing dignity and elegance, even in spite of its… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

…an abandoned but completely intact railway line that passed by the structure, but it had been pulled up in proceeding weeks prior to our visit. Just missed it! As traditional wood-cribbed grain elevators go, this one is fairly new, having been built in 1982. This was late in the game… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

The grain elevator seen in this article is located at the Wilson Farm north of Drumheller Alberta, but once sat along the rail line in the town of Gartly, just to the north. Gartly is gone, the rail line is abandoned, but the elevator survives. Constructed in the late 1920s… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)