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ellewritenow · 1 year

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history105rockandrollblog · 2 years

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Lecture 12: Joni Mitchell (1943- ) performs one of her most beloved songs, “Both Sides Now,” on national television in 1970. Born in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Mitchell grew up wanting to be an artist, but played folk music part time and attracted a devoted following for her remarkable voice and poetic songs. In the mid-1960s, she made her way to Toronto, then to the United States, living for a time in Michigan and New York before heading west for Los Angeles. Her first album, 1968′s Song to a Seagull, put her on the map as a rising folk singer. But it was her second album, Clouds (1969) that elevated her to the heights of fame, proving to be a critical and commercial success, and netted her a Grammy for Best Folk Performance. Two years later, in 1971, her album, Blue, turned out to be a major game-changer, winning almost universal acclaim, and cementing her status as one of the most revered singer-songwriters of the era. To this day, Blue is widely considered one of the greatest albums ever recorded – in any genre of music.

#Joni Mitchell #Women in Rock #Both Sides Now #1970 #Blue (1971 album)#Landmark albums #Fort Macleod #Alberta #Canada

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battle-of-alberta · 8 months

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Does Cal consider anyone family? And what's his relation to those he does

Cal's family is not as extensive as Ed's for a couple of reasons, but let's start with his nearest and dearest: his sister Caroline. She represents the former city of Bowness that is now northwest Calgary, although I imagine she may predate that slightly having grown up on Cochrane Ranche. In the past, especially during the wars, Cal would avoid responsibility by taking transit to her place and going skating and stuff. These days she takes a more active role in the city, particularly when it comes to promoting Calgary as a can-do volunteer driven city.

If Ed has a cousin relationship with the HBC forts, Cal has a sort of brothers-in-arms relationships with NWMP forts. Fort Macleod is basically his (slightly older) twin brother...

Usually they enjoy golf or polo together but the old competitive spirit between the old divisions fires them up a little. I imagine Fort Saskatchewan has a similar relationship with these two as well.

#projectcanada cities #pc: calgary #pc: bowness #pc: fort macleod #hapo doodles #traditional art #ink #calvin mccall #caroline cochrane #whatever ft macleods name is its Not mac no one calls him that lol #they probably call him Loud or Cloudy haha #boab ask #boab omake

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jlepape · 3 months

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Fort Macleod, Alberta

#jlepape #monochrome #blackandwhite #bnw #photographers on tumblr #photooftheday #bw_lover #photography #original photographers #alberta #canada #street photography #raw community

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masinipehikanis · 5 months

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Cree Man's Leggings, collected 1858, purchased by George Heye from Frank M. Covert circa 1906, originally from Fort Macleod; Alberta; Canada. National Museum of the American Indian

#cree #history #plains indian #historical fashion #fashion #leggings #leather

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smartycvnt · 1 year

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Title: Charmed Pairing: Rowena Macleod x Reader Prompt: 7. "Come here, I'll keep you safe." NR WC: 917

There was an old saying your grandfather used to say about what happened when you went looking for trouble. It had done the trick of scaring your siblings into being good, but you had always been a bit of a wanderer. You liked finding the things that others were afraid to look for. Trouble didn't scare you, not really. You had been able to handle yourself, and over the years, learned of more effective and less alarming ways of doing so. The last thing you wanted was to draw the attention of someone like the Winchester brothers towards you. They weren't exactly bad guys, but you didn't want to find yourself at the business end of one of their weapons, something you were certain would happen if they learned who you really were.

Most hunters didn't know where you came from, just that you had your shop and you helped them when they needed it. You ran a safe space for everybody, no matter who they were. Usually, you could tell who walked into your shop before they revealed the information themselves. Demons, witches, vampires, werewolves, and hunters alike frequented your place of business. No matter who they were or claimed to be, you helped them as long as they didn't wave any red flags. Sometimes, there was a bit of trouble, but it was never anything that you couldn't handle.

The redhead set off nearly every single alarm in your head that she could. You could practically taste the power that was radiating off of her in waves. She was a witch, and an old one at that. She had magic that you were certain hadn't been seen since the days of your ancestors. You had always wanted to learn the magic of old, but the Grand Coven was nothing more than a joke. They were also judgmental bitches who had turned you away because of your "tainted" blood. Your magic was just as pure as theirs was, possibly even more so. You were a natural witch, someone that they had been scouring the world to find for years with little to no success.

"Where do you get your ingredients?" The red haired woman had been walking around your shop gathering things for the past 15 minutes. Occasionally, she would stop at something for a couple of moments, inspect it, and then put it in her basket. She seemed to be vetting the things in your shop for authenticity, something that most of your patrons didn't do.

"It's a custom here not to ask questions before you answer a few," you said as you leaned against the counter. The woman hummed as she flicked her wrist at you. You rolled your eyes as you were pushed back maybe an inch or two. The woman looked surprised, scared almost. "How about this, I'll answer your question if you tell me who you are and promise to play nice."

"Playing nice isn't exactly my forte, but if you insist, they call me Rowena. I am the leader of the Mega Coven," she said proudly with a little upturn of her chin. You had heard the whisperings of the Mega Coven among the few true witches left, but you had never expected the leader to waltz into your shop like this. "Now, I believe I asked where you get your ingredients. I've never seen such a collection before, it's truly remarkable." "Some of it I grew myself, but my family's reach runs deep. Here, they call me Y/n. Nothing more from me Rowena," you told her. She set the basket on your counter to be rung up as she stared at you. The longer she stared at you, the more nervous you got that she'd figure out exactly what you were. Rowena was a witch of old, and despite the fact that she was still after your bloodline's time, she was old enough to have heard the stories of your kind running amuck on the islands.

"You're not human," Rowena muttered under her breath. Your fingers curled under the marble countertop as you searched for one of the weapons you kept close by. "Don't worry, I won't go blabbing to any hunters. It's not like I'm in the business for helping out those Winchester boys right now anyway. I could help you though, your warding is good, but it can be undone."

"What do you want in return?" you asked her. If she knew who you were, then she knew that you were a very transactional creature. You didn't simply accept gifts, there was always something to be gained or lost in life.

"A partnership, just you and me. There are many people after my head, which is a rather nice one if I do say so myself, and I'd like to keep it." Rowena's terms weren't too outlandish, and you could stand to learn some of the magic of old, so you agreed.

"Come here, I'll keep you safe," you told her as you extended your hand towards her. She made a move to shake your hand, surprised when you grabbed her forearm, pulled her in close, and gave her a fairly quick kiss on the lips. "We have a deal Rowena of the Mega Coven."

"I think I've officially done all the things my mother warned me not to as a girl," Rowena joked. "I'll be back for you, keep your head down. I'd hate for these hunters to get word of a faerie in town."

#rowena macleod x reader #rowena macleod #supernatural #supernatural x reader #my writing

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kiki-de-la-petite-flaque · 6 months

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Joni Mitchell, nome d'arte di Roberta Joan Anderson (Fort Macleod, 7 novembre 1943)

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leolaroot · 16 days

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is macleod just a canadian name or what. firstofall fort mac but also i know a few macleods and this canadian show im watching has a weirdly high concentration of them.

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sophiakev · 1 year

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Next stop Fort Macleod

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fantastictyphoonpeanut · 1 year

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Capt. Henry Boyle, a former British barrister poses in Fort Macleod, Boyle and his brother, Capt. Richard Boyle (6th Earl of Shannon), were aristocratic investors and ranchers in Alberta and Rocky Mountain Ranger officers in the Canadian Militia, 1880s.

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monstersfear · 1 year

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@deathisanartmetzli

[pm] Sometimes he’d throw the biggest tantrums and climb the walls like an electric spider. He loved his pillow forts and sleeping on top of either me and Macleod. Sometimes both. He kicked and rolled around a lot in his sleep, which I mean, was fine, but his kicks hurt sometimes. Drooled a lot too. Honestly, I loved it.

[pm] He drools in his sleep now. Sounds like a good time, though. Kids are fun to have around. Kind of prefer this one as an adult, though.

#deathisanartmetzli #metzli: family photos

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ultra-francesca-mercury · 1 year

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november 7, 1943

Joni Mitchell is born Roberta Joan Anderson in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada.

#joni mitchell #almanaccomercury

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iulianfawcett · 1 year

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my bio teacher was an extra for that last of us tv show we know which scene and location and everything bc it was filmed in fort macleod (like everything is) and today a friend and i spent like an hour in class trying to find him. we couldn’t :(

#i’ll ask him for a timestamp and waltz into class like michael guess what i have!!!#en

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battle-of-alberta · 2 years

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For a grown man, Cal gives off spoiled brat vibes. What was he like as a kid?

[the irony being that today, calvin regularly drinks whiskey because It’s the Culture tm]

so sorry to inform you guys Calvin was assigned cop at birth u_u he didn’t spend his whole childhood in the NWMP barracks though, there was a period where he was living in a tent on the side of the road waiting for the train to show up (though that said, that might have been a bit more sanitary.)

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- Calvin was imbued with admiration for Toronto from a young age because the majority of the men recruited for service were originally from Toronto. His attention quickly turned south, however, the more he interacted with Americans and heard about mythical places like Denver and Chicago.

- Fort Calgary was ironically built and supplied by some of the same whiskey traders they were supposed to stamp out, shh.

- Calvin was really proud his American friends tolerated him enough to hang out with him... and is still to this day, perhaps not realizing that the others considered him “mild west” rather than wild west. During this period he mostly hung out with folks from Montana and Colorado- the relationship with Texas didn’t really get off the ground until the mid 20th century.

- It’s been a few years since I read Denny’s account of Fort Calgary but I seem to remember him commenting on having to order lots and lots of tea.

- I still think this ongoing joke that Calvin doesn’t realize Lilith and his old rival Fort Whoop Up are the same person is really funny (y’know, despite Lethbridge having an identical flag, annual Whoop Up Days, Whoop Up Drive, etc that he just assumes is a historical curiosity of hers)

- Calvin’s other siblings/cousins (not depicted) include big bro Fort Macleod and Fort Saskatchewan, among others. I’m not sure what that makes Fort Walsh... a brother/cousin who was re-animated in the 40s and never quite the same? Lol.

- The “gentlemen” Calvin comments on to Caroline are caricatures of “remittance men”, that is, a man exiled to the colonies by his family and paid regular remittances to ensure they didn’t come back and do whatever it was that got them sent off in the first place.

- “No English” was a common sentiment because of above remittance men - ‘English’ I believe was kind of a derogatory term used in both Canada and the States to refer to anyone from the cities back east who were a bit too soft for frontier life, but in the territories it could definitely refer to literal expats from England. (Tangentially related, but Prince Edward even bought himself a ranch not far from Calgary in the 1920s.)

- The events Ed and Madeline are thinking of include: one of the early visits to Fort Edmonton that I’ve referenced a zillion times (the NWMP couldn’t sleep because they weren’t used to the dogs); the 1885 Northwest Resistance which caused Calgary to panic so much that a basically useless militia was formed; when natural gas wells were discovered around Medicine Hat, Calgarians threw a fit and wouldn’t rest until someone funded a successful hunt for their own.

- (afterwards in the race for the capital, edmonton newspapers would jab at calgary’s tendency to act like a pig eating everything around it, an article which the papers in medicine hat would reprint)

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jlepape · 3 months

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Fort Macleod, Alberta

#jlepape #monochrome #blackandwhite #bnw #photographers on tumblr #photooftheday #landscapephoto #bw_lover #photography #original photographers #raw community #alberta #canada

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cinemablind · 1 year

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Where Was The Last of Us Filmed?

The short answer to this big answer is Canada. Though this game adaptation revolves around a cross-country trek across America, most of it was filmed up north. In fact, it’s been called the largest-ever production filmed in Canada.

The production was mostly filmed around Calgary, Edmonton, Canmore, Fort Macleod, and Waterton. And we already know exactly where some of the biggest scenes in this series took place. After an exposition-heavy TV interview, The Last of Us opens in earnest in 2003 — two decades before the global infection. As Joel (Pedro Pascal) tries to carry his daughter Sarah (Nico Parker) to safety, they pass by some recognizable parts of Alberta. Sullivan Road in High River was used to portray Joel and Sarah’s neighborhood, and at one point, they run through Evelyn’s Memory Lane Diner.

Next up is not-Boston, which is where we reunite with Joel two decades after the tragic loss of his daughter. Edmonton was used for these scenes, and the Alberta Legislature Building even served as a stand-in for Boston’s capital. As for all of those post-pandemic shots of overgrown highways, those were filmed around Calgary.

We also know the filming locations of key plot points to come. Jackson, Wyoming, which is where Joel’s brother Tommy (Gabriel Luna) lives with the Fireflies, was actually filmed in the quaint town of Canmore. Fort Macleod was the basis of many of the show’s small-town scenes — a staple of this universe. Waterton Lakes National Park was used in place of Colorado, the location of many of Joel and Ellie’s (Bella Ramsey) hiking scenes.

#The Last of us #HBO #filming #location

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