I thoroughly enjoyed traveling through western Canada as an American kid during the mid 1950's through early 1960's. We traveled by car from Michigan to Alaska several times, to our homestead in Alaska. Edmonton, Regina, Saskatoon & all railroad stops in between!! Large grain elevators on the horizon growing bigger with each passing mile!! Flat,rolling land as far as the eye could see. Small railroad towns where we got gas, Mom might have mailed a post card, maybe had a treat of some kind. Friendly people & dawn glowing bright as a new day broke in the big skies. Lots of memories!!
@@realcanadiangirl64 ....thanks for replying. I found out about all the old grain elevators being gone a couple years ago. That saddened me. Here in the American Mid West our big barns & tall silos are disappearing too. Most have been replaced by metal pole barns & the large,circular,metal grain storage bins. While the new buildings are practical they sure lack the romanticism the old wooden ones had!!
My grandfather Peter Verigin was a Russian philosopher and lead activist in the Doukhobor community, my own father is Shaun verigin, many generations in between and not sure of lineage but if anybody knows literally anything in relation to this guys bloodline or even personal accounts of this bloodline before Canada, I would immensely appreciate your assistance and support for anything anyone can add, my mind Is most at peace learning of my Russian roots, I have no family here in the immediate area but I do know there has to be some left. Verigin doukhobors.
My grandparents immigrated from Russia in the early 1900s to South Dakota. Shortly after their marriage they came north and homesteaded on the Alberta/Saskatchewan border. In 1926 just months before my 97 year old dad was born they moved to the Torrington/Olds area where they bought a homestead. When my parents got married they bought a half section five miles away where I grew up. Growing up as a fourth generation kid is something I always took for granted. My great grandparents were friends with my friends' great grandparents
The Settlement of the Western Plains of Canada is almost a mirror image of the settlement of the Western Plains of the USA, especially as Canada implemented the Dominion Land Survey in 1871, their equivalent of the Public Land Survey System. There were a few differences. First of all, it kinda kicked off 2 or 3 decades later than in the USA. A 2nd difference is that it was harder to travel to the Canadian Prairies from Eastern Canada, than it was from the eastern USA, before the railway and paved roads provided feasible transportation from the east-to-west. Lastly, the entire colonisation and settlement was more organised and less of a frenzy than on the American side of the border.
+jason henn We are indeed a hardy folk! We have just become smarter, and ironically lazier at the same time, today because we are far too reliant on technology!
Canada 150 Archive, you said ' We have just become smarter, and ironically lazier at the same time, today because we are far too reliant on technology ', that's the case for nearly everybody in the world to be honest, especially the Developed World. Let's just hope that humanity doesn't become as lazy as portrayed in the Disney Pixar movie, WALL-E (2008) !
I thoroughly enjoyed traveling through western Canada as an American kid during the mid 1950's through early 1960's. We traveled by car from Michigan to Alaska several times, to our homestead in Alaska. Edmonton, Regina, Saskatoon & all railroad stops in between!! Large grain elevators on the horizon growing bigger with each passing mile!! Flat,rolling land as far as the eye could see. Small railroad towns where we got gas, Mom might have mailed a post card, maybe had a treat of some kind. Friendly people & dawn glowing bright as a new day broke in the big skies. Lots of memories!!
Thank you for sharing such a beautiful stroll down memory lane!
@shirleybelinski I was born in 1964 and grew up on a farm an hour north of Calgary. Sadly all of those beautiful grain elevators are gone now
@@realcanadiangirl64 ....thanks for replying. I found out about all the old grain elevators being gone a couple years ago. That saddened me. Here in the American Mid West our big barns & tall silos are disappearing too. Most have been replaced by metal pole barns & the large,circular,metal grain storage bins. While the new buildings are practical they sure lack the romanticism the old wooden ones had!!
My grandfather Peter Verigin was a Russian philosopher and lead activist in the Doukhobor community, my own father is Shaun verigin, many generations in between and not sure of lineage but if anybody knows literally anything in relation to this guys bloodline or even personal accounts of this bloodline before Canada, I would immensely appreciate your assistance and support for anything anyone can add, my mind Is most at peace learning of my Russian roots, I have no family here in the immediate area but I do know there has to be some left. Verigin doukhobors.
My grandparents immigrated from Russia in the early 1900s to South Dakota. Shortly after their marriage they came north and homesteaded on the Alberta/Saskatchewan border. In 1926 just months before my 97 year old dad was born they moved to the Torrington/Olds area where they bought a homestead. When my parents got married they bought a half section five miles away where I grew up. Growing up as a fourth generation kid is something I always took for granted. My great grandparents were friends with my friends' great grandparents
The Settlement of the Western Plains of Canada is almost a mirror image of the settlement of the Western Plains of the USA, especially as Canada implemented the Dominion Land Survey in 1871, their equivalent of the Public Land Survey System. There were a few differences. First of all, it kinda kicked off 2 or 3 decades later than in the USA. A 2nd difference is that it was harder to travel to the Canadian Prairies from Eastern Canada, than it was from the eastern USA, before the railway and paved roads provided feasible transportation from the east-to-west. Lastly, the entire colonisation and settlement was more organised and less of a frenzy than on the American side of the border.
In 1871
few of today's generation could endure life like this.
+jason henn We are indeed a hardy folk! We have just become smarter, and ironically lazier at the same time, today because we are far too reliant on technology!
yep ripe for a a takeover- seems the way in history of the rise and fall of nations- but hope not
Canada 150 Archive, you said ' We have just become smarter, and ironically lazier at the same time, today because we are far too reliant on technology ', that's the case for nearly everybody in the world to be honest, especially the Developed World. Let's just hope that humanity doesn't become as lazy as portrayed in the Disney Pixar movie, WALL-E (2008) !
Ok this is scary me