Reading Time: 3 minutes For decades, Boyd Stevens has been a dutiful guardian of ghosts and the unofficial mayor of Orion, a ghost town along the famous Red Coat Trail. Stevens has called Orion — located on Highway 61 halfway between Medicine Hat and the U.S. border — home for most of the past 78 years, taking over the […] Read more
‘Ghosters’ rediscover the past in Alberta’s forgotten ghost towns
Spruce Grove’s iconic water tower finally comes home
Abandoned and adorned with only graffiti and rust, the 157,456-litre barrel now stands tall in the Alberta community and commemorates the era when it was built
Reading Time: 3 minutes About five years ago, as a Spruce Grove boy was being driven home from an Edmonton hospital, he noticed an overturned six-metre-wide barrel lying in the field off Highway 16A. The boy turned to his mother, smiled and said, “Mom, I am home now.” A few years later, the 157,456-litre barrel, abandoned for more than […] Read more
‘Vatorologists’ hope to give structure a new life and new home
On the move: History enthusiasts want to move an old elevator to a historic park near Stirling
Reading Time: 2 minutes Two men with a devotion for the past are hoping to translate their enthusiasm into a living example of how grain used to be handled in hundreds of towns across the Prairies. Jason Sailer and Cody Kapcsos hope to move former Ogilvie Mills grain elevator here 33 miles to the Galt Historic Railway Park. Sailer […] Read more
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