Edmonton, Canada

The following pictures will represent a small number of the many pictures being taken enroute to Maine and Canada.  Pictures will be added over a period of the next several months so please check back.  Up-dates will occur about every three or four days.

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August 5th through 8th, 2004

What a wonderful place Winnipeg is but we need to continue on our travels across Canada.  Our destination was to be a large town of over 800 thousand and it is the City of Edmonton.

While traveling across the country we stopped for lunch and spotted this license plate.  This is the plate for the Northwest Territories.

When we arrived in Edmonton we stopped in at the Mall.  The West Edmonton Mall claims to be the largest mall in the world.  This may be true as it is huge.  The picture on the left is an ice skating rink in the mall.  In addition to the rink there is a full water park with a beach in the mall plus an aquarium, restaurants and the many shops.

The picture on the right is of Flamingos still in the mall.

We left the mall but only scratched the surface of seeing it.  We headed for Fort Edmonton.  We needed to board the train which would deposit us in front of the fort

Our conductor was and enjoyable gentleman and a joy to talk to.

On the right are the passenger cars of our train.

This is Fort Edmonton and the entrance is the small door to the left side of the picture.

These two pictures are taken in the center of the Fort's parade ground

The main building.

A sod roof

The privy

Looking out across the front porch towards the sundial.

Below is a detail of the latch on the kitchen door.

Looking up the side of the main building.  The construction is of squared logs requiring very little caulking (chinking)

Guard tower

Below is a detail of the joinery in the support structure of the Guard Tower.

A typical family in period dress.

The street car above traveling down Main Street, while on the left it is waiting for the train to pass.

A school teacher of the time1908.

We left Edmonton after visiting for two days.  Our intent was to stop for several days in Calgary.  We are now heading south with Southern California in our sights.  When we arrived in Calgary it was raining with great intensity.  We continued on planning on a several day visit in Glacier National Park.  The rain continued and so did we.  We ended up stopping in Washington on the banks of the Columbia River.

The Columbia river.

The Southern part of Oregon.

At this point we are heading for California and home.

Next:  California

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