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A Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides) male perches on the edge of an open grassland east of Leduc, Alberta, Canada.
17 April, 2011.
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A Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides) male perches on an old fencepost to defend its territory against any intruders near its chosen nest box and later in the season to respond to any demands for food from the female and young. The nest site is a bird box put up by volunteers to increase nesting success in the rural pastureland area near Coal Valley east of Leduc, Alberta, Canada.
17 April, 2011.
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CN 3150 as the tail end remote on 419-19 during the rainy evening on July 19, 2022. CP Leduc Subdivision
WLE-05 CP 5908N takes a gentle curve near Morningside, AB while picking up old rail at spots on CP’s Leduc Sub. Later on in the morning of March 5, 2022 the train lost all of its air brakes due to a few issue with the old pair of SD40-2’s, while unable to bring the air back up the continuous welded rail train eventually tied down in the back tracks at Morningside, AB.
Camera: Kodak Vigilant Six-16
Film:Kodak TMY
Dev.: t-Max 1:7
C'est une maison bi-centenaire situé au 2403 Bolevard Perrot. Cette maison a été sauvé de la démolition par un architecte passionné:
C'est une photo argentique prise avec un appareil Kodak Six-16 de 1940, modifié pour utiliser de la pellicule 120. Le format des caméras Six-16 était 2"x4" au lieu du 2"x3" pour les caméras Six-20. L'appareil a été modifié et l'objectif de 127mm original a été remplacé par un 101mm. C'est devenu un appareil panoramique avec une focale équivalente à environ 38mm sur le format "full frame" 35mm.
Photo taken with a modified Kodak Six-16. Modified so it can be used with 120 film and the 127mm lens was changed for a 100mm. The camera is a 38mm équivalent on 35mm but with the 2"x4" negative its become a panoramic camera.
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With the knowledge of CP's Royal Canadian Air Force tribute unit on the point of a northbound 418, I set out south of Edmonton on the Leduc Subdivision to find it. I don't usually photograph the CP side of things, but it was the last day of winter break, and I had nothing better to do! The snow was falling, and the overcast day worked well for a northbound. I made it as far south as Ponoka, when all of a sudden a blur of tank cars created a vortex of snow. Between buildings, I caught a glimpse of a heritage unit... could it be my train? I turned around and pursued - it looks like 7023 wasn't alone! With the snow flying behind them, it looked as if they were truly pretending to be a fighter jet, breaking the sound barrier. From the telegraph poles, to the searchlight signals, and the other railfans you meet along the way, this line has yet to dissapoint me.
Train ID:
CPKC 418 (Mixed Freight)
CP Leduc Subdivision
Locomotives:
CP SD70ACu 7023 (RCAF Tribute)
CP SD70ACu 7012 (Heritage)
CP ES44AC 8815 (Mid-DPU)
Canon EOS R6 | Canon 70-200 f/2.8 II | Canon 24-70 f/2.8 II | Canon 16-35 f/4
January 5th, 2025 - 12:17 PM MT
CP 2816 South storms past the remaining wooden elevator at Leduc Alberta during an October 2023 test run.
Ramjet powered Leduc 0.10 prototype mounted on a fuselage section from an SE.161 Languedoc Mother-ship seen on display in the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace, Le Bourget, Paris
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I followed this shelf cloud for nearly two hours, it's probably the prettiest storm I've ever seen.
Leduc County
Alberta, Canada
Excerpt from the plaque:
Maison Perras-Leduc, 633, Rue Shefford: In 1885, the carpenter-furniture make Philibert Legros dit Saint-Pierre bought the Robinsons’ carriage shop with an acre of land. Saint-Pierre sold it to his colleague Jeremie Chaput in 1889. Chaput sold the house, which had only two rooms, to the widow Angeline Bedard, nee Perras, in 1900. In 1901, she occupied the house, enlarged to five rooms among which was a small shop, and worked as a hatmaker with Corinne, one of her four daughters. Corinne, who worked as a hatmaker for forty years, inherited the house at her mother’s death in 1907 and kept it until 1949. In 1907, she married Willie Leduc, a grocer and butcher.
This house resembles the Quebec-style house. The longest side of the main section set facing the street, the steep pitched roof and the right angle of the porch roof are usual features of the houses built by the settlers of West Shefford. The off-centre door on the façade recalls the tradition of the French regime. The remarkably tall projecting chimney at the back of the second section is a later addition.
Quatre types se succédèrent, de puissances et de performances croissantes, Leduc 010, Leduc 016, Leduc 021 et Leduc 022 ; mais tous avaient en commun deux caractéristiques principales originales, leur mode de propulsion et leur forme :
leur propulsion par statoréacteur (appelé aussi tuyère thermopropulsive par René Leduc), qui avait déjà été imaginée par René Lorin en 1913, ne nécessite aucune pièce tournante, est adaptée aux hautes vitesses mais présente l'inconvénient de ne pas assurer le décollage. Pour permettre à l'avion de décoller et d'atteindre les conditions d'allumage de son statoréacteur, René Leduc adopte successivement deux formules :
les Leduc 010, Leduc 016 et Leduc 021 sont installés sur le dos d'un avion porteur et largués en vol. Les avions porteurs utilisés sont de deux types : le SE 161 Languedoc et, exceptionnellement, le Heinkel He 274.
Le Leduc 010 est le premier type réalisé. Deux exemplaires sont construits, les Leduc 010-01 et 010-02. Le Leduc 010-01 commandé par le ministère de l’Air (Pierre Cot) en 1937, voit sa construction suspendue pendant la guerre. Il sort de l’usine de Toulouse le 23 septembre 1946 et effectue ses essais en vol du 19 novembre 1946 au 25 juillet 1952, essais incluant le premier vol au monde d’un appareil propulsé par statoréacteur le 21 avril 1949.
Four types followed, of increasing power and performance, Leduc 010, Leduc 016, Leduc 021 and Leduc 022; but all had two main original characteristics in common, their propulsion method and their shape:
their ramjet propulsion (also called thermopropellant nozzle by René Leduc), which had already been imagined by René Lorin in 1913, requires no rotating parts, is suitable for high speeds but has the disadvantage of not ensuring take-off. To enable the aircraft to take off and reach the ignition conditions of its ramjet, René Leduc successively adopted two formulas:
Leduc 010, Leduc 016 and Leduc 021 were installed on the back of a carrier aircraft and dropped in flight. Two types of carrier aircraft were used: the SE 161 Languedoc and, exceptionally, the Heinkel He 274.
The Leduc 010 was the first type built. Two examples were built, the Leduc 010-01 and 010-02. The Leduc 010-01 was ordered by the French Air Ministry (Pierre Cot) in 1937, but its construction was suspended during the war. It left the Toulouse factory on 23 September 1946 and underwent flight tests from 19 November 1946 to 25 July 1952, including the world's first flight of a ramjet-powered aircraft on 21 April 1949.
Excerpt from the plaque:
Maison Leduc-Normandin, 641, Rue Shefford: In 1891, the carpenter Philibert Vachon bought part of Lot 1234 from his colleague Jeremie Chaput and built this house on it. Cyrille Bedard’s widow, the hatmaker Angelina Perras, bought it in 1895 and sold it in 1899 to the widow of Frederic Leduc. Thecle Chicoine lived in this house of more than ten rooms with her daughter Marie E. Leduc, son-in-law Osa Normandin (a merchant) and their children. Mrs. Normandin was the owner from 1909 until 1948, when, having been widowed, she sold it to Progres de Shefford Ltee, an organization dedicated to the economic development of West-Shefford.
This house was built by Philibert Vachon, who relied on the door, window frame and shutter factory the brothers Theodule and Cleophas Vachon had been operating in West-Shefford since 1878. He took advantage of his house’s location on the main street to make it a showpiece of his trade, enlivening it with rich architectural detail. The façade of this simple “Boomtown” dwelling thus became highly ornamented with projecting elements. The central loggia is closed by a balustrade and crowned with a floral pattern. It is flanked by full frame-height bays with side windows. The double cornice with corbels creates an arresting, almost excessive effect. The roof of the porch, supported by turned columns, has a visible “lean-to” structure.
Silhouetted pumpjacks just east of the historical Leduc #1 Site, home of Alberta's major oil discovery in 1947.
Devon, Alberta
Canada
Looks to be a White Aerial. This is a Leduc City rig. It was too smokey back here to get any closer to try and get a unit number.
Excerpt from www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=13533...:
Description of Historic Place
Notre-Dame Roman Catholic Church / Basilica National Historic Site of Canada is an immense stone church built from 1824 to 1829 in the Romantic Gothic Revival style. It features massive twin towers and a Gothic-arched, recessed portico. The interior is decorated in a later and more elaborate version of the Gothic Revival style. The church faces onto Notre-Dame Street, directly across from Place d’Armes in the heart of Old Montréal. The formal recognition consists of the building on its footprint.
Heritage Value
Notre-Dame Roman Catholic Church / Basilica was designated a national historic site of Canada in 1989 because:
- it showcases the romantic expression of the Gothic revival Style and is the flagship of this style in Canada;
- the use of the Gothic Revival on a building of such importance accurately predicts the prominence that this style would have in Canadian architecture.
Built from 1824 to 1829, Notre-Dame Roman Catholic Church / Basilica was the first significant example of the Gothic Revival style in Canada. In the 1820s the parish of Notre-Dame was led by a group of prominent Montréal merchants and by the Sulpicians, a powerful Roman Catholic religious order that had historically controlled the island of Montréal as its priests and seigneurs. The Sulpicians wanted to build a new parish church that was more impressive than the recently built Roman Catholic and Anglican churches in the city. The Sulpicians called on James O’Donnell, an American Protestant architect to build a church in the latest style, with enough space to accommodate a congregation of more than 8000. The resulting Gothic Revival style church, named Notre-Dame, served all of Montréal. For the next half century it was the largest church in either Canada or the United States. Its early Gothic Revival style, which was applied to a straightforward nave plan with galleries and twin towers, marked the beginning of the style’s significance in Canadian church architecture. It represents a Romantic, non-academic approach to the style, which contrasts with the formal Ecclesiological Gothic Revival of many of Canada’s large Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals of the mid- to late-19th century.
The parish used many of Quebec’s most celebrated architects and artisans to help complete the decoration of the church in the 19th and 20th centuries. Architect John Ostell finished the twin towers in 1843, after O’Donnell’s death but according to the original plan. Between 1872 and 1880, O’Donnell’s interior was replaced by a more elaborate Gothic Revival decoration, designed by well-known architect Victor Bourgeau. Bourgeau commissioned French sculptor Henri Bouriché to produce the statues and reliefs for the main altar and the massive reredos along the east side of the chancel. Montréal sculptor Louis-Philippe Hébert added a pulpit between 1883 and 1887 to plans by Bouriché. In 1926, Quebec artist Ozias Leduc decorated vaults, walls, doorways and stained glass windows.
Key elements contributing to the heritage value of the site include:
- the monumental effect of the building, achieved through its large scale, traditional plan, flat façade, and the two massive towers;
- features typical of traditional, classically inspired designs, including the symmetrical facade, a low-pitched roof, and a general rectilinear approach;
- its simple interior organization, consisting of nave and galleries;
- its imposing façade, consisting of a triple arched portico surmounted by a blind arcade and flanked by twin squared towers;
- the Gothic Revival detailing applied to the façade, including niches with statuary, a crenellated parapet, octagonal colonettes finishing the corners of the towers, buttresses, pointed-arch windows, and window tracery;
- its early 19th-century construction technology, including, its complex wooden roof truss system, its painted lath-and-plaster vaulted ceiling, and its Montréal limestone walls;
- its highly decorated, Gothic Revival interior designed by Victor Bourgeau, including, the polychromatic nave, the rose windows, the Gothic tracery, the painted nave illuminated by three octagonal skylights, the ribbed vaulted ceiling, and the mahogany choir stalls;
- Gothic Revival decoration produced by French sculptor Henri Bouriché, including the statues and reliefs of the main altar and the massive reredos along the east side of the choir;
- the pulpit by sculptor Louis-Philippe Hébert;
- the vaulting, walls, doorways and stained-glass windows produced by Ozias Leduc;
- the viewscapes between the church and Place d’Armes.