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Voyageur Day!
It's Voyageur Day at the Northern Rockies Museum!
Edmonton - Rocky Mountain House, AB Gensphoto's photos around Rocky Mountain House, Canada
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Hinton Mills 2018 - 100th Anniversary Review
Join us as we look back at our centennial year. We made so many special memories this year, and feel incredibly fortunate and humbled that we were able to pay tribute to the many people who have helped Hinton Mills reach its 100th Anniversary.
Road trip to Jasper National Park, Canada. Travel with Yusuf
A much needed break after an intense half year of heartbreaking journey of caregiving and struggling with a loved one's battle with cancer. We decided to drive up to Jasper National park in the Canadian Rockies for a weekend. A four hours drive from the city of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada, the town of Jasper is the largest National park in the Rockies. Both outdoor and indoor adventures all year round Jasper arrests your senses to keep coming back to explore and enjoy it's splendid beauty. Inside the town you’ll see train station, museums, gift shops, tour companies along with plenty of choices in restaurants, hotels and bars. Surrounding it are luxurious mountain resorts that offer fine dining and touring options. Though we couldn't see it at night but FYI, Jasper is also the second largest dark sky preserve in the world – and the only with a human population. How cool is that!
Definitely a note for Next time.
If you are a Froogle deals Hunter and planning on staying in the town, make sure to book in advance, It gets busy and sold out very quickly and ain't cheap either. A last-minute idea it was, we ended up getting a decent hotel in Hinton, a town only 45 minutes East from Jasper. Worked out well.
As much as we missed our loved one during the trip we tried our best to cherish every moment and create memories to last forever. It is true that life is at the other end of fear. It was a snowy, sticky and wet Friday morning in Edmonton, a little nervous but confident we made sure to get on the road, be safe and enjoy.
My thoughts are that traveling with a child and single parenting could be as much fun as anything else out there. Try and live it up! Enjoy our little video that highlights our first solo road trip. More to come.....
Sandstone Ranch, Alberta
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VIA's 'Canadian' Part 8 Wabamun Lake Alberta
A trip on VIA Rail's incomparable Canadian.
The route of the ‘Canadian’ runs from Toronto past the rocks, lakes, rivers & muskeg of Northern Ontario, over the vast prairies to Winnipeg & through the beautiful Qu’Appelle river valley, into the spectacular front range of the Rockies at Jasper National Park, through the pretty mountain resort town of Jasper, over the continental divide through the famed Yellowhead pass with views of Mount Robson, highest peak in the Canadian Rockies & follows the Fraser river canyon to the Pacific coast at Vancouver, BC.
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Little Smoky Caribou Range Promo
The Gauntlet went to the Little Smoky caribou range north of Hinton, Alberta, to see first-hand the environmental disturbance that has made this area one of the most controversial ecological problems in the country. Look for the full story April 9.
2015 Season - E17 - The Heart of Jasper
Continuing along the Yellowhead toward the town of Jasper
Very close to train
Found a post to mount the camera close to the tracks, only problem is not securing it down. Was a nice shot until the force of the train knocked the camera down. Oh well, would rather have this then take the chance of standing 5 feet from the tracks, I don't recommend that.
The Canadian National Railway Company (reporting mark CN) (French: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec that serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. CN's slogan is North America's Railroad. CN is a public company with 24,000 employees.[1] It had a market capitalization of 32 billion CAD in 2011.[2] CN was government-owned, having been a Canadian Crown corporation from its founding to its privatization in 1995. In 2011, Bill Gates was the largest single shareholder of CN stock.[2]
CN is Canada's largest railway, in terms of both revenue and the physical size of its rail network, and is Canada's only transcontinental railway company, spanning Canada from the Atlantic coast in Nova Scotia to the Pacific coast in British Columbia. Its range once reached across the island of Newfoundland until 1988, when the Newfoundland Railway was abandoned.
Following CN's purchase of Illinois Central (IC) in 1998, and a number of smaller US railways, it also has extensive trackage in the central United States along the Mississippi River valley from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Today, CN owns about 20,400 route miles (32,831 km) of track[3] in eight provinces (the only two not served by CN are Newfoundland & Labrador and Prince Edward Island), as well as a 70-mile (113 km) stretch of track (see Mackenzie Northern Railway) into the Northwest Territories to Hay River on the southern shore of Great Slave Lake; it is the northernmost rail line anywhere within the North American rail network outside of Alaska.
The railway was referred to as the Canadian National Railways (CNR) between 1918 and 1960, and as Canadian National/Canadien National (CN) from 1960 to the present.
Those who are trainspotters make an effort to spot all of a certain type of rolling stock. This might be a particular class of locomotive, a particular type of carriage or all the rolling stock of a particular company. To this end, they collect and exchange detailed information about the movements of locomotives and other equipment on the railway network, and become very knowledgeable about its operations.
A trainspotter typically uses a data book listing the locomotives or equipment in question, in which locomotives seen are ticked off. In Great Britain, this aspect of the hobby was given a major impetus by the publication from 1942 onward of the Ian Allan ABC series of booklets, whose publication began in response to public requests for information about the rolling stock of Southern Railways.[13] Sometimes, trainspotters also have cameras, but railway photography is mostly linked to railfans. Moreover, in contrast to modern railway companies' attitudes, at its inception in 1948 British Railways handed out free copies of a locomotive data book to school-children.[citation needed]
Some trainspotters now use a tape recorder instead of a notebook. In modern times, mobile phones and/or pagers are used to communicate with others in the hobby, while various internet mailing lists and web sites aid information exchange. Railbuffs can maintain private computerised databases of spotting records as well. Radio scanners are common equipment for listening to railroad frequencies in the US to follow rail traffic.[citation needed]
It is a misconception that all railfans are trainspotters. Many enthusiasts simply enjoy reading about or travelling on trains, or enjoying their rich history—this may extend to art, architecture, the operation of railroads, or simply modelling, drawing or photographing them.
2015 Season - E16 - Entering Jasper
We are entering the front gates of Jasper National Park.
Drive: Grande Prairie to Grande Cache
This is the first leg of our trip across the province of Alberta and British Columbia.
Dashcam: VIOFO A119 v2
Memory Card: SanDisk 64 Gb MicroSD Card
The Fur Trade: Our People's story
The fur trade through the eyes of First Nations woman, Metis woman, and a First Nations child. We did this screencast for our Social Studies Curriculm class at the University of Alberta. C3 would like to thank the Metis elder, here in Edmonton, we interviewed for this project, she is a wonderful lady and could not have made this video without her.
West Virginia Themed Model Railroad
Rough concept of a West Virginia themed model railroad
Medalta Medicine Hat - Travel Alberta, Canada
View traditional and contemporary ceramic works or take a pottery class at Medalta in the Historic Clay District of southern Alberta's Medicine Hat.
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A Drainage Network Model for Regional-scale Land-use Planning in Alberta's Foothills
Dr. Richard McCleary draws the links between what we see in the field to the maps we have for planning and points out that the information we need for watershed assessment and riparian zones is the same. Unmapped streams are a financial liability for the Alberta forestry industry. Dr. McCleary proposes a stream classification process based on erosion processes. He shows some examples of assessments using the drainage network model combined with LiDAR information for forestry areas near Hinton, Alberta. Watershed assessment using the drainage network model was also tested in the Oldman River watershed where cattle, recreation and trout impacts were mapped.
Dr. Richard McCleary, Principal with McCleary Aquatic Systems Consulting, made his presentation at the Foothills Research Institute's Water Program Workshop, Feb. 6, 2013. Dr. McCleary is a Water Scientist with FRI's Water program..
Trainz simulator 2006 running in Canada
I am with my sister and I am on Trainz 2006. Hope you enjoy it.
CN RailRoad part 1
CN RailRoad part 1