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Looking Back

May 17, 2023

Looking Back: The Bellevue Mine Tour - Ready to Roll

That place of no light is underground in a coal mine and once I got used to the absence of light the uncertainty of being there faded away. 

Looking Back: The Bellevue Mine Tour - Ready to Roll

May 10, 2023

Looking Back: The Road Home - Colton's Journey

I would like to share a story with you. 

Looking Back: The Road Home - Colton's Journey

May 3, 2023

Looking Back: Beauty and the Beast

And the Prophet said,
“And lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty.
And it stayed its hand from killing.
And from that day, it was as one dead.”
Old Arabian Proverb

Looking Back: Beauty and the Beast

Apr 19, 2023

Looking Back: More than meets the eye

In the last few years my railroad interests has been concentrated specifically on the world of train art lettering styles and trying to decipher what they say.

Looking Back: More than meets the eye

Apr 5, 2023

Looking Back: Not all is as it Seems

Practical jokes, within reason, put spice in our lives and we could use more of them these days

Looking Back: Not all is as it Seems

Jan 18, 2023

Looking Back: Bahzad Adulmuhsen Abdo, New Kurdish Canadian

Their living room was full of supportive community members all wanting to share that official announcement.

Looking Back: Bahzad Adulmuhsen Abdo, New Kurdish Canadian

Nov 9, 2022

Looking Back: The history of the H.M.C.S. Blairmore

It may surprise many of you to learn that the town of Blairmore had a Bangor Class minesweeper named after it in 1942.

Looking Back: The history of the H.M.C.S. Blairmore

Nov 2, 2022

Looking Back: Tracing the Cadomin Conglomerate

The Kootenay geological formation holds the key to how the communities of the Pass developed

Looking Back: Tracing the Cadomin Conglomerate

Feb 15, 2023

Looking Back: if those walls could have talked

Recently the old dance hall at Crowsnest Lake was dismantled and levelled and all that remains now is a bare patch where this remarkable old pavilion once stood. 

Looking Back: if those walls could have talked

Mar 29, 2023

Looking Back: Close Encounters of the Bird Kind

“Bye, baby bunting,
Daddy’s gone a-hunting,
Gone to get a rabbit skin,
To wrap the baby Bunting in”

Looking Back: Close Encounters of the Bird Kind

Mar 15, 2023

Looking Back: George Liebergall - True Grit

The Great Depression led to many desperate money-making measures and people would do just about anything to try and survive.

Looking Back: George Liebergall - True Grit
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