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I composed this image while traveling through south Saskatchewan Province in Canada. The prairies: big skies; clear horizons; entrancing colours; deep thoughts and limitless possibilities.
View from The Icefields Parkway of the North Saskatchewan River Valley.
To travel the Icefields Parkway is to experience one of Canada's national treasures and most rewarding destinations. Stretching 232km (144mi.) through the heart of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site, this world-class journey offers access to a vast wilderness of pristine mountain lakes, ancient glaciers and broad sweeping valleys. This special travel route winds its way through two national parks, boasting a unique and irreplaceable landscape rich in history and natural beauty second to none.
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This Friday is a stormy one here in Ontario... seems fitting to post a picture from a recent trip to Grasslands Park in Saskatechewan. Beyond the fence surrounding our campground... rain and rainbow. Happy Fence Friday!
LLPX 1502 GP15-1 (ex-CR 1600, ex-CSXT 1525) and ex-CP 5491 SD40M-2 (ex-UP 3022, ex-NRL 3022) sit idle at the Richardson Pioneer elevator in Davidson SK, mile 88 on the old Craik Sub between Saskatoon and Regina.
Black-crowned Night Heron.
At 23 to 28 inches long with a nearly 4 foot wingspan the Black-Crowned Night Heron is a medium-sized, stocky short-necked heron with a black crown, gray wings and white underside. They have a short black bill and pinkish or yellow legs. In the breeding sseason they have 2 or more long white plumes on the back of their head. Juveniles are dull gray-brown, lightly spotted with white and with stouter bills and longer legs.
They inhabit marshes, swamps and wooded streams.
They range throughout the United States except for the Rocky Mounty area from Washington, Saskatechewan, Minnesota and New Brunswick south to Southern America. They winter in the southern United States.
Pointe Moullee State Game Area, Monroe County, Michigan.
A beautiful old pumphouse near Manitou Beach, Saskatchewan. It's no longer in use and I think the current owners have changed it into a summer cottage. iPhone shot processed in PS.
This schoolroom was found in what is now The Inn at Val Marie, a previous nuns residence. Many of the blackboard messages are interesting, and can be viewed by clicking on the image.
Great Western Railway's GWRS 4062 rests outside of the shops on a nice August evening in Assiniboia, Saskatechewan.
GE Rail Services (ex-Pullman Transport Leasing)
55’3” PS-2CD 4750cf 3-Bay Covered Hopper
PTLX 34710
Blt. Pullman Standard (PS), Butler, PA, 10-11/73 (PTLX 34695-34772)
Saskatoon, Saskatechewan, Canada
September 23rd, 2011
Note: Previously leased to Con Agra.
1600 x 1050
1825 Idylwyld Drive North. On Highways 5 & 11 near Airport. Saskatoon, Sask., Canada.
Saskatoon's Newest and Finest Motel. Coffee Shop, TV, Radios, Car Plug-Ins, Cribs, Kitchenettes, Executive Suites, Singles, Doubles. Commercial Rates. 64 Units, Meeting Room, Recreation Room, Sample Rooms. Telex 034-2350. A Lemar Motel. AAA Approved. American Express, Carte Blanche & Diners Club accepted.
The writing on the back says:
November 1971. George stayed here on a trip from DRMC.
Color Productions Ltd.
Dexter Color Canada
56303-C
CAPA-021739
"In The Heart of the City"
Beautifully appointed units have color cable TV, phones, free coffee, air conditioning. 1/4 block from shopping, dining and lounge. Adjacent to Crescent Park, has indoor and outdoor Olympic sized pool. AAA and CAA Approved. A Best Western Motel Your Hosts: Joe and Gerty Fikowski
Color Productions
Dexter Color Canada
71045-D
CAPA-010233
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A group of students relax on a beach in Fort Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan /
Un groupe d’étudiants se détend sur la plage à Fort Qu’Appelle (Saskatchewan)
Creator(s) / Créateur(s) : Chris Lund
Date(s) : 1961
Reference No. / Numéro de référence : ITEM 4950110, 4952583
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Location / Lieu : Saskatechewan, Canada
Credit / Mention de source :
Chris Lund. National Film Board of Canada. Library and Archives Canada, e011177502 /
Chris Lund. Office national du film du Canada. Bibliothèque et Archvies Canada, e011177502
Another amazing city! Map by Dolph Map Co. US Route 52 begins in Downtown Charleston, on the Battery, and continues northwestward for more than 2000 miles to the Canadian border between NW North Dakota and Saskatchewan. En route, the highway passes through Florence (SC), Winston-Salem (NC), Wytheville (VA), Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Joliet (IL), Dubuque, Rochester (MN), Minneapolis-St Paul, Fargo, and Minot, before continuing NW for another 100 miles into Saskatechewan (where the SASK highway, which has a different number) continues onward to Regina and Saskatoon.
Title / Titre :
Men relax after their midday meal at the first veterans' co-operative farm, on the old Matador Ranch in Saskatchewan /
Des hommes se reposent après leur repas du midi à la première coopérative agricole pour les anciens combattants, sur l’ancien ranch Matador (Saskatchewan)
Creator(s) / Créateur(s) : George Hunter
Date(s) : July 1946 / juillet 1946
Reference No. / Numéro de référence : ITEM 3224188
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Location / Lieu : Saskatechewan, Canada
Credit / Mention de source :
George Hunter. National Film Board of Canada. Phototèque. Library and Archives Canada, PA-159642 /
George Hunter. Office national du film du Canada. Phototèque. Bibliothèque et Archvies Canada, PA-159642
Handyman Mike Holmes host of TV show "Holmes on Homes" receives his new CFL bulbs from Project Porchlight at the Building Saskatchewan Green Conference. www.onechange.org
Painted from a photo I took in 1995. This is a framed image; finally figured out how to photograph it without reflections. Painted around 2004?. Image 36.5 cm by 55 cm. on Arches cold-pressed paper. Transparent watercolour. Really fun to paint the ice textures. Also love the subtle cloud streaking in sky. (I edited out a cable and orange warning globe when I painted to show the North Saskatchewan as a Northern river, which it is, though this is in the City of Edmonton).
I was reading in Fascinating Challenges, Studying Material Culture with Dorothy Burnham about the silver willow seeds which were pierced for beads on the fine fringe of traditional caribou hide garments made by the Gwich'in in the nineteenth century. Then on Easter Sunday, as I was walking by Wascana Lake in Regina, Saskatechewan, I realized the small willows planted along the road were not true willows but a wolf-willow or Eleagnus, and the low hanging branches were heavy with last years' fruits...so I started to peel the spongy pulp away, and ended up with a handful of oblong striped brown seeds, which would be suitable for beads. I also found the bleached branches still with leaves quite pretty, so brought some back to photograph. Looking in my plant books I realize this may actually be oleaster or Russian Olive a non-native species of Eleagnus related to the native wolf-willow. If anyone knows for sure which species it is I would appreciate knowing.
St Symphorien Military Cemetery
Belgium
256265 Private George Lawrence Price
28th Bn. Canadian Inf.
11th November 1918
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Born in Kings County, Nova Scotia on December 15, 1892, Price makes his way to Moose Jaw Saskatechewan and works as a farm labourer. With the passing of the Military Service Act in 1917, Price is drafted and has his physical exam on December 4, 1917.
Price sails from Halifax on January 27, 1918 aboard the SS Scotian (www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerica...)
On November 11, 1918, Price is shot by a sniper at 10:57 and succumbs to his wounds one minute later, dying 2 minutes before the armistice is signed.
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A memorial stands today in Ville-sur-Haine, Belgium, near the spot that Price was killed.
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