We stayed in Banff one more night and left on August 31st. Drove to Medicine Hat, AB and spent the night. On our way we saw the signs for Spruce Meadows and I like watching the horse jumping on CBC from there. We thought they would have a gift store and we'd be able to get a souvenir for my niece Kathy, who has 2 horses and does jumping. We were very disappointed that they don't have a store and nothing was going on. Did get some pictures in the rain.
Sept 1st and 2nd we were in Moose Jaw, Sk. Mostly driving on the 1st. On the 2nd we did a couple of tours. One was the tunnels were Al Capone supposedly hid and ran his bootlegging business. It is interactive and the actors are great getting people involved. It was a lot of fun. The 2nd tour was about the Chinese immigrants that came over to work on the railway and after the railway was built they worked at different businesses but the tour was about the ones that worked in a laundry. It was very sad as they were treated badly, didn't speak the language, and hardly paid any money. The money they did earn had to go the broker who brought them over to pay for their passage fee. Many never saw their families again. They lived underground in deplorable quarters. Again it was interactive and I was chosen to run the lanterns back and had to do it quickly in poorly lit tunnel. I was a second late getting back and she said that would have cost the worker 3 days pay, 17 cents a day. No pictures as it is copyrighted.
Moose Jaw is another dying downtown, nothing nice to take a picture of.
We drove to Portage le Prairie, Manitoba on Sept 3rd. Stopped in Indian Head, that is where Little Mosque on the Prairie is filmed. Yes they have a large Indian Head which is below.
The drive back isn't as pretty as when we were coming out. The canola is harvested and now all you see is wheat and corn. I wish the farmers would post signs so you knew what was growing. Did see alfalfa.
We did see a moose crossing the road when we took a side road to see Cypress Park. He was too fast so no pic.
We just arrived in Kenora, Ont. The Lake of Woods is here and very pretty. We are starting to see the foliage turning, fall is coming. This part of Ont is still on central time, we thought it was an hour later than it is.
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| Spruce Meadows |
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| Spruce Meadows |
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| Badlands |
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| Wheat for as far as you can see |
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| Indian Head |
I hope you are all having a good long weekend. We'll be heading east again tomorrow. Thanks for the comments and emails.
Cheers, nrm & bam
1 comment:
Hello criminals,
I see you've continued your criminal ways by running the bootleg tunnels with Al C : )
Speaking of bootleggers -- I didn't know they were still around and living in Prospect. I got "tricked" into driving someone (who I just met and who was already drunk at 11:30 in the morning) to a bootlegger. I made sure he knew I worked for the PPS and asked if the police ever came around the bootleggers house.
And you were late with the laundry lanters ..... must be your bum knee, ha. Unbelievable how badly the immigrants were treated. Greedy Greedy boss-men.
What happens in the Badlands?
What episode will you and Bill be appearing in on Little Mosque?
I owe you an e-mail, but must read the rest of your blog.
Happy Travels
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