The Bluejay – Charron Community Cemetery is located northeast of Atmore, Alberta which is near the junction of Highway 55 and Highway 63. The cemetery is tidy and well-maintained. It also has a distinctive number of wooden “patriarchal”-style Christian crosses which have two crossbars as opposed to the far more common one crossbar or distinctive…
St. Anthony of Padua Church and Cemetery are located southwest of Medicine Hat. The church has fallen into disrepair and seems to stand as a symbol of a past reality now fading. A story entitled “Tattered rural church tells an historic story” written by Gillian Slade and published in the Medicine Hat News on July…
Aetna is a hamlet in Cardston County, Alberta. Its namesake, strangely enough, is Mount Etna, an active volcano on the east coast of Sicily. Etna is fact one of the world’s most active volcanos and is in an almost constant state of activity. A Google search of the place name brings up many other towns…
There is very little information online about Prospy Cemetery save what is inscribed on the large cairn on site. William Jasper Hackworth donated the land for the graveyard in 1914 where his wife was buried that same year. The images from this cemetery are few. But when post-processing I had a lot of fun taking…
Seven Persons is a hamlet in Cypress County, Alberta about 20 km southwest of Medicine Hat. The first thing I wondered is how “Seven Persons” got its name. Most assume the hamlet was named after nearby Seven Person’s creek, which of course begs the question of how the creek got its name. There are a…
Hillcrest Cemetery is located in Hillcrest, Alberta (also known as Hillcrest Mines), and is a large sprawling place. The images below don’t do justice to the number nor the variety of different types of grave sites in cemetery. The event that naturally overshadows one’s visit is the Hillcrest Mine disaster which occurred on Friday June…
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Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church and Cemetery lies 32 kms northeast of the town of Athabasca, Alberta and serves the Spruce Valley district. The church is painted with an unusual colour scheme compared to the many other churches I’ve visited in rural Alberta, and it seemed to match fall colours surrounding it….
A log church was first completed at this site in 1904 and named “The Congregation of the Greek Catholic Church at Beaver Lake in the District of Alberta in the North West Territories of Canada”. In 1908 the name was changed to “The Congregation of St. Dimitry Greek Catholic Church at Beaver Creek on the…
Work started on this church in the Peno district in 1909. Local logs were cut and hauled to the site and the church built with volunteer labour. The interior was painted in 1918 by Peter Lipinski, from Edmonton, who worked adorned the interiors of many of the churches in Lamont county. The “Lamont County’s Self-Guided…
