Rural History has a blog in Saskatchewan. There are good photos and quotes of famous people, around the site.
Check out the upcoming Gardiner debate with the KKK re-enactment. It’s taking place in Lemberg later this Summer.
-Regina at sunset
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Meanwhile, it’s getting harder to photograph trains. I don’t think walking down tracks should be encouraged, and probably should be discouraged, yet there are many places where it’s not any more dangerous to cross than at a street. A huge stretch of track in downtown Yorkton isn’t fenced off, because it makes no sense to walk about 3 blocks in either direction to cross the tracks to the residential homes just to the south. If they hand out any tickets there, there will be many fuming people. My hunch is this is at least as much an attempt at cracking down on vandals, and drifters, as it is for safety. CN police had better use discretion when handing out fines, or this will be a PR disaster for the rail company.
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John Murney | 30-Apr-08 at 11:26 pm | Permalink
Kool - Gardiner was actually from Lemberg!
Saskboy | 30-Apr-08 at 11:35 pm | Permalink
Here’s some very interesting reading, regarding Lemberg, and the First Nations MRI.
http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2006/08/15/abernethy-balcarres-neudorf-and-lemberg-saskatchewan
from 2 years ago…
Ryan | 01-May-08 at 8:02 am | Permalink
Stuff like this is great.
Western Canadians, especially, seem to be virtually unaware of the presence of such heinous stuff in our past. KKK in Sask, Bible Bill Aberhart’s virulent anti-semitism. One of my favourite photos of all time thanks to its ridiculousness one of a KKK member picketing outside a carpet-cleaning place in Calgary:
http://ww2.glenbow.org/search/archivesPhotosResults.aspx?AC=GET_RECORD&XC=/search/archivesPhotosResults.aspx&BU=&TN=IMAGEBAN&SN=AUTO26842&SE=1369&RN=1&MR=10&TR=0&TX=1000&ES=0&CS=0&XP=&RF=WebResults&EF=&DF=WebResultsDetails&RL=0&EL=0&DL=0&NP=255&ID=&MF=WPEngMsg.ini&MQ=&TI=0&DT=&ST=0&IR=75174&NR=0&NB=0&SV=0&BG=&FG=&QS=ArchivesPhotosSearch&OEX=ISO-8859-1&OEH=ISO-8859-1
On the flip side, we don’t really know much about the positive things in our past, either.
Ryan | 01-May-08 at 8:04 am | Permalink
This one’s pretty interesting, too.
http://ww2.glenbow.org/search/archivesPhotosResults.aspx?AC=GET_RECORD&XC=/search/archivesPhotosResults.aspx&BU=&TN=IMAGEBAN&SN=AUTO26842&SE=1369&RN=0&MR=10&TR=0&TX=1000&ES=0&CS=0&XP=&RF=WebResults&EF=&DF=WebResultsDetails&RL=0&EL=0&DL=0&NP=255&ID=&MF=WPEngMsg.ini&MQ=&TI=0&DT=&ST=0&IR=81291&NR=0&NB=0&SV=0&BG=&FG=&QS=ArchivesPhotosSearch&OEX=ISO-8859-1&OEH=ISO-8859-1
gfr | 01-May-08 at 6:55 pm | Permalink
On the CN thing, I’d never seen anybody on the tracks riding along them on a bicycle as someone mentioned in CBC’s article on it until today. Streets dead-end at the tracks all over in the northwest in Saskatoon, for apparently no reason at all. It’s just crappy planning, and now residents and workers who walk in the area are going to be punished for it whenever they cross a dirt footpath over the tracks. I certainly do understand CN’s position, but I wonder how effective it’ll be. More bike paths, not just along the river and to the university, might help a little, as well as corridors through CN rail yards within cities.
RJ | 05-Oct-08 at 8:54 pm | Permalink
The concern for the railway is liability if someone gets hit by a train while crossing the tracks. The only deterrent is to issue the traffic tickets for such offences. Warnings do work. A person that is issue a ticket for trespassing very seldom comes back.
Saskboy | 05-Oct-08 at 9:07 pm | Permalink
The railway shouldn’t have to worry about that. After all, if someone walks into a street and gets hit, not at a crosswalk, it’s pretty hard to blame the driver of a car or bike for that pedestrian carelessness.
Neil | 06-Oct-08 at 8:49 am | Permalink
But if a train hits a car or pedestrian, think of the engineer, who CANNOT avoid the collision, even if he sees it in time to steer around the obstacle. Well, he’s not going to steer around it with a train, is he? And it can take over a quarter mile to stop, so if some idiot tries to beat the train at a crossing, or if some poor soul decides to end it all by standing on the track, that engineer gets to watch, whether or not he wants to.
And the counselling for the engineer can take months to get him back to work. Sometimes the engineer will nevr work again, will suffer nightmares for the rest of his life.
Saskboy | 06-Oct-08 at 9:48 am | Permalink
But those accidents, and suicides in particular will happen with or without fines being given to trespassers.