Although I live in Calgary, this is my first post featuring an Alberta homestead. Why, you ask? Because for every house I find in Alberta, I find three or four in Saskatchewan, so naturally they add up a little faster.
I visited this little place with my mom on one of our day trips, and in typical fashion, we found a great place worth spending some time at while the sun was setting and we were losing our light. If I had a dollar for every time that has happened, I'd be rich.
It was boarded up at one time, but vandals in this particular area of Alberta seem to be particularly ruthless. I haven't come across any properties along this highway or nearby that are in "good" shape. All of them are suffering from the elements of nature, of course, but all of them have also taking a beating at the hands of humans. And if they haven't taken a beating, they've been used as a dumping ground. Why this seems to be worse in this particular county and the few surrounding it, I can't say.
Panels on the stairs kicked in. Not a shard of glass left in tact. Many of the walls were pelted with bullets or kicked in, too. Someone had even dumped an entire Canada Post mailbox (not a single one, I'm talking a community mailbox) in the living room here. Stolen and then discarded? Who knows.
Was glad to see the doorknobs were all still there. They were beautiful. But all of the appliances were moved out into the yard to be used for target pratice.
The barn seemed to have been left alone. I was surprised to see the ladder leaning there untouched, seeing as the rest of the property was anything but untouched. Barns scare me a little bit, I won't lie. Maybe vandals feel the same.
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Very nice pictures showing me the abandoned buildings and properties in Canada. Part of my wife's family moved from Poland to Canada. It was in 1955. They lived in Winnipeg until 1991. In 1991 they back to Poland and bringed all stuff with them. Even the oven. Exactly the same one like you show on the picture. I don't remember what was the name of it.
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