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Pretty scary, Larry

Pretty scary, Larry

What a neat video! I'm very interested in Dinosaur Park, Drumheller, and Kananaskis.

I like watching the old cars on these sadly abandoned towns. I wish you could spin your camera around them.

If there are residents still living there it is not a ghost town.

Crazy!

I think that I recognized some of those buildings in Lauder.

Wonder if the high school in Keyes bought by a farmer is where Gods Misfits met. Read about the 2 women murdered and placed in a freezer and buried on someone's property Mothers Day 2024

Excellent video. I'm a total amateaur and got a Z6ii 24-200mm on sale. This video has helped me immensly in understanding the basic features.

Awesome video!Thank you!

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I was born in Shaunavon in 58. I went to school in Gull Lake. Very cool video. Thanks for showing people the beauty of this sort of forgotten area.

If a guy wanted to see as many of these on a weekend, where might one stay with owning a camper?

Loved seeing these places. Am viewing from Australia. Just a couple of questions: Are there any moves to preserve/restore any of these places?? Or are they being left to go to ruin?? Many thanks.

It should be noted that this is in the Cypress Hills area for further research.

The highways are in better condition than Winnipeg streets. Lmao 🤣

I dreamt about a fire and evacuating after fire alarms went off at a pool exactly like the one in the hotel. I later learned many years ago that the hotel actually had a fire by my cousin who lives near there. Hello to any Rowans if you are reading this comment. I honestly should find the time to pay you guys a visit again. Lost touch for so long.

To answer your question 9mins in about what this structure did, it is as mentioned by another comment, a tipple. Coal that comes out of the mine is full of rocks and other waste, so a conveyor takes it to the top where stone is picked out. Then using gravity and vibrating metal screens the coal is sorted into different chutes based on lump size, which had different uses. Then it is dumped into waiting train cars on the siding next to the tipple. You can see a lot of the sorting machinery still in place. In operation, it would have been an extremely loud place, hot in the summer, cold in the winter. Paid less than underground, so the jobs were less desirable, and usually given to boys. Most tipples in Alberta were constructed as cheaply as possible, so they were rickety wooden things, meaning almost none are left. There is great wooden tipple preserved at the Atlas Coal Mine museum outside Drumheller which is worth a visit. This brick, steel, and concrete tipple is much sturdier, which is probably why no one wanted to spend the cost of tearing it down after the mine closed. Looks newer too, I'd guess the 1950s, just before the coal industry in the Pass went into rapid decline thanks to railway dieselization, and general collapse of coal demand in Canada in the 1960s. Crowsnest Pass is very a beautiful place, and has a very unusual history, such as having a mountain fall on a town and being a hotbed of socialism in otherwise conservative Alberta. You can learn a little more about that here: albertaadvantagepod.com/2021/07/02/blairmore-alberta-canadas-first-communist-town-council/ Thanks for this wonderful video!

wow, watching this video makes me sad as I grew up in rural Sk during the 50's and 60's...left after joining the military in 1963. I did return to Hodgeville often during leave and this town is still there but fading with a population of around 80. Nearby towns such as Bateman and Kelstern are now the same as in this video. In fact, when I last visited and took a trip over to Kelstern, there was nothing left other than a small community center. Just a suggestion to Chris Attrell, you might want to visit the Hodgeville area and do up a video of the various towns that are fading fast, Other ones are Flowing Well (no longer there), Neidpath, Shamrock, Saint Boswells, Dendron, Hollinquest, Braddock, and many others. A long time ago, these communities were busy little centers.....btw, thank you for doing these videos.......

does this camera contain manual mode?

The bus stop was not written in 24HR format.... strange for a military base.

You need sound in the intro... i thought my internet was having issues

Take a friend and take turns going in and out.... HOT

Really nice to see this. Shows you how fragile small towns can be. Ghosts of the past now.

i really like how normally he speaks while he explains the places and buildings, very enjoyable video

Si ça vous intéresse, on a fait un concert avec des collégiens sur le thème de la route 66 : czcams.com/video/bwYd8pTbges/video.html

On a fait un concert avec des collégiens sur le thème de la route 66 : czcams.com/video/bwYd8pTbges/video.html

This hotel should buy and display some of John Wayne Gacy’s paintings. I think he called himself “Pogo” maybe. But that would really freak out the guests. (I’m not really into true-crime paraphernalia but I think people sell stuff on eBay.)

I hate clowns.

Driving through Saskatchewan I actually really liked it and I almost went back to it to live

Imagine minding your own business in the middle of nowhere when suddenly you see that doll, glowing up in a tree staring into your soul.

☺️. Nice

Chris Which mountains are seen from Sask. seen at the 15 minute mark?

The Saskatchewan wind swept away my sister when I was 9 years old. That was 20 years ago and we’ve never seen her since…

Not in regina, somewhere around regina

Chris, 2nd thing. Stop being hesitant to check.out the buildings with no tresspassing signs. If they have a big fence around them fine but if you can walk to them you can explore. They only way one can get in trouble if the owner is there, calls the police and makes a report with the police there. Once thats done the next time u do it and get caught only then you can get in trouble. In joe bidens new america, the cops today are not going to bother anyone for looking or filming. Stop being scared.

I came on to make a joke and say you forgot Bassano..lol..but then the memories kicked in..I used to drive the preacher on his rounds back in mid 80's..Empress where we been to the hotel and had breakfast..off to Acadia valley..Buffalo..then Bindloss to finish the day ..I have been in the church there...sad to see things shuttered..great people out that way...we did stop every place for a lunch or supper..lol..the ladies were the sweetest...Thanks for this.

I miss that road that is now closed. You got to Manitou Beach alot faster. Plus it was a nice country road.

This was great. My family originated from southern sk. It was always heaven to be down in that area visiting the relatives. We were so fortunate to experience this growing up. A sense of freedom lost in the world today. Thankyou for the video.

i thought this scenes & shots from a game based on unreal engine ..etc :)

Where I live is Southern Alberta, I don't consider Canmore, Calgary, Okotoks and all that south but I guess it is by map.

New hospital shut down in a small town...yep, damn near all of them. Thanks Alberta government, terrific job, now none of us has a doctor or a specialist, or a GOOD surgeon. About all you can find are dentists.

That train station in Empress, I think it was, is beautiful!! I always wanted to live in one because of the style, all the wood, they were usually built super solid. Guess that won't happen in this lifetime.

Tonnes of amazing footage! Great Video thanks!

I am from Houston Texas . I don’t make much money so I wonder if goi can help me wirj my question ; I want to go to Arizona to visit a family friend but I want this time to take Route 66 all the way . In your opinion how much budget do I have to save to take that route because surely I’ll be tempted to make lots of stops and be tempted to buy , eat in local mom and pops places and maybe stop for the night on my way to and from . Thank you .

Grew up in Elkhorn. I seem to remember going to a social in Tilston around 1984 or 1985. Don't really know why. LOL

Beautiful video and I have seen everything during the 1980’s. Rockglen is cool little town and the sand dunes are astonishing. There is the Red Coat trail nearby and does Shaunavon have water fit for a Queen?

The Walking Dead series it was filmed at this location?

So this is how the UK will look in a few years from know.

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