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Tag Archives: Drumheller
Alberta Ghost Town Tour: Day One
Each year since 2014, we get together with a group of friends and tour around the small towns and abandoned places in an area of Alberta for a weekend. This year our tour took us back to the area surrounding … Continue reading
Posted in History, Travel
Tagged abandoned, Alberta, Badlands, Canada, Craigmyle, Delia, Drumheller, ExploreAlberta, ghost town, Ghost Town Tour, Golden Grain School, Michichi, Morrin, museum, prairie, Rowley, Rumsey, school, Special Areas, Springwater School, Surprise School
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Badlands Weekend: October 2017
It is amazing how life can get in the way of living. Despite recently completing my short video of the Highway 27 bridge, I had completely forgotten about the photos I had taken that weekend. It was only as I … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged Acme, Alberta, Badlands, Badlands Motel, Canada, Delia, Drumheller, Forgotten Prairie, grain elevator, hotel, Kirkpatrick, school, WHIFS
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Badlands — the Video
Finally! It took multiple attempts to get this together after Windows Movie Maker kept crapping out on the clip of Wayne for some reason. I had to split the video in two, compile each half separately and then put the … Continue reading
Posted in drone, History, Travel
Tagged abandoned, Alberta, Atlas Coal Mine, Badlands, Big Valley, Canada, church, Dorothy, Drumheller, Last Chance Saloon, Rosedeer Hotel, Rowley, Wayne
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2016 In Review: Explorations, Visitations, and Tribulations (Part 2)
Well, in sitting down to write Part 2, I realized I made a glaring omission in Part 1. I completely overlooked that Emily had a tradeshow in Atlanta at the end of June and I flew down to Georgia to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberta, Arizona, Atlanta, BBQ, Bryce Canyon, church, Dorothy, Drumheller, Georgia, ghost towns, Grand Canyon, Heritage Park, history, Jeep Liberty, museums, pizza, railroad, road trip, Route 66, Rowley, Saskatchewan, schools, Utah
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Clarendon Hotel in Gull Lake, SK Destroyed by Fire
“It’s been happening with depressing regularity over the years — another century-old small town hotel has been hit by fire.” — CBC News It’s a trend that DanOCan.com has noticed. And, I have been making a special effort to take … Continue reading
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Tagged Acme, Alberta, Aylesbury, Bassano, Bracken, Calgary, Cardston, Chaplin, Drumheller, Duck Lake, fire, Fort Macleod, Gull Lake, Harris, High River, history, hotel, Imperial, Keelor, Patricia, prairie, Saskatchewan, Smuts, Southey, Yahk, Yellow Creek
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Journey to Garden Plain
It was just your typical 1335km weekend road trip. While the primary goal was to attend the Southern Alberta Weekend (SAW) which is an annual Geocaching event put on by the South East Alberta Region Cache Hunters (SEARCH). Of course, for … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberta, church, Drumheller, Garden Plain, grain elevator, history, prairies, Scapa, Sharples, Springwater School
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Back to the Badlands
One of the best caching experiences we ever had was back in the summer of 2006.Life in the Wet Lane There was a weekend event called “Badlands Cache Quest” and we camped at the Lions Youth Camp just north of … Continue reading
