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Some paintings from the past week, most are on location but a couple I added after the fact from photos (since, obviously, it would have been dangerous to sit and paint a bison that close!)
Kyoto Japanese Restaurant (Garneau, Edmonton)
Crave Appetite Restaurant + Giant Pysanka (Vegreville) and some flowers (Astotin Lake, Elk Island)
Our campsite and a sleepy plains bison (Astotin Lake, Elk Island)
#hapo art#traditional art#watercolour#ink#mixed media#urban sketching#rural sketching#landscape#canada#alberta#vegreville#edmonton#astotin lake#elk island#elk island national park
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Vegreville has a very cool Egg!!! Frosty day photo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . #randypondphotography #vegreville #alberta #canada #pysanka #ukrainian #photography #yyc #yeg #yegphotographer #edmonton #edmontonphotographer #fuji #fujixpro (at Vegreville, Alberta) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnjF6ZIuhgI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
#randypondphotography#vegreville#alberta#canada#pysanka#ukrainian#photography#yyc#yeg#yegphotographer#edmonton#edmontonphotographer#fuji#fujixpro
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“WIFE SLAYER BECOMES TORCH,” The Province (Vancouver). March 16, 1931. Page 5.
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Alberta Man Leaps Into Flaming Strawstack and Burns to Death.
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TOTS CARRY NOTE
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EDMONTON, March 16. - Sending his children into Vegreville with a note in which he signified his intentions, Steve Yknitski, farmer, killed his wife with an axe in his stable at Royal Park near Vegreville this morning and then leaped into a flaming straw stack where he was burned to death.
At noon Alberta provincial police officers and residents were busy battling the flames in an attempt to get the body from the straw pile. The body of the woman remained in the stable, and no examination had been made at that time.
The children, aged 8 and 4 years, were instructed by the father to take the note to his brother-in-law. The latter read it, notified Corporal Heacock of the Alberta provincial police detachment, and then rushed out to the farm, where he found the body of the woman, and could see that of the man enveloped by the flames in the straw stack.
Corporal Heacock and residents were making desperate efforts to quench the flames to get the body of the man out before it was entirely consumed, but the intense heat beat them away.
#edmonton#vegreville#deadly fire#self immolation#farming in canada#straw stack#murder#murder suicide#killing your wife#patriarchal violence#suicide note#great depression in canada#crime and punishment in canada#history of crime and punishment in canada
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Sometimes, my aimless countryside driving adventures lead me to the world's largest objects. The Pysanka is a commemorative Ukrainian egg, and it was built in 1978 to commemorate a visit by the Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. . . . #travelalberta #drivetime #explore #worldslargest #vegreville #pysanka #history #saturday #adventure #architecture #solotravel #roadtrip #daytrip #zizuoptics (at Vegreville Pysanka Egg) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp_jBbOr-K4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
#travelalberta#drivetime#explore#worldslargest#vegreville#pysanka#history#saturday#adventure#architecture#solotravel#roadtrip#daytrip#zizuoptics
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there really is an odd number of references to alberta in the x-files
#the killer bees near calgary#the vegreville pysanka snowglobe in one episode#i think there’s more that I’m forgetting but you know
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Shout out to Ukrainian selfshippers. We’ve gone through so much and I just wanted you all to know that I love you from the US diaspora. In another world we might’ve met in Sniatyn, or maybe Kyiv. Or Vegreville; in other life I might’ve been born in Vegreville. I might’ve grown up speaking Ukrainian and then I’d be able to speak it with you.
Я люблю тебе
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To Ontario and back
Week 2
We left Edmonton mid morning and drove east on Hwy 16. It took us through some nice farm country for 10-20km. We drove through Elk Island National Park where we saw a nice herd of plains buffalo. After driving through the park, the landscape changed to gently rolling hills with smaller farms and strips of wooded areas
We drove into Vegreville to check out the worlds largest Ukrainian Easter Egg. There is much tradition and history on the way they paint and decorate easter eggs. The Elks Lodge created a very nice park and picnic area on the edge of town.
Driving east from there we drove through the rolling hills, a lot of it covered in bush and shrubbery with the occasional grain farms, cattle ranches and small lakes in between.
We drove into the Battlefords. First we checked out South Battleford, looking for the tourist info centre, but it was closed. North Battleford is located on a ridge above the south Saskatchewan River. It looks like a service centre for the farming community of the area.
Then we drove east along long stretches of straight and flat roads towards Saskatoon. Most of the harvesting was already done. The farms are massive in size as far as the eye can see. Neighbours here are 10-20 km apart, no homeless people here …..
We arrived in Saskatoon and checked out the downtown area. We were looking for a campground close to downtown but were unable to find it, as the GPS was confused and kept sending us around in circles.
We did settle in an RV park on the edge of town where we enjoyed a beautiful sunset along with dinner
We left Saskatoon early driving east on Hwy 16 and stopped in Colonsay to have a short visit with our friends Brian and Angelica.
They moved here years ago from Calgary to retire and enjoy the country living. They have a lovely home and are involved in the community. We said our goodbyes after our surprise visit and drove on east.
This prairie land is endless, more land straight stretches of road with a slight curve every few miles.
We drove by Bid Quill Lake, a large body of water in the middle of the prairies.
We stopped in Yorkton to fill up with gas and beer and decided to travel on to Winnipeg. It made for a long day of driving, but we were looking forward to have an extra day there. We arrived at brother Jim’s place at 9, had a short visit before going to bed.
The next morning we made our way into downtown Winnipeg to get our windshield fixed as we picked up a rock chip. We also made it to the Fort on the Red River where we had a nice lunch, found a lovely bakery and walked through the park and across the bridge to St. Bonaface.
It was raining when we left in the morning and we had grey skies all the way to Kenora. We were advised to drive from Winnipeg to ThunderBay in one stretch, as there was not a lot to see in between, it was an 8 hour drive. We drove though more prairie farms, long flat and straight stretches of Hwy 1.
As we got closer to Kenora there were fewer farms and more bush along the road.
After Kenora the landscape changed as we came to the Canadian Shield. Rocky out crops dot the landscape here. Lots of bush and shrubbery with the odd cattle ranch, it’s no longer flat lands.
The road took us through low hills and rocky terrain as we arrive at Lakes of the Woods of Ontario. This is a beautiful area with all the fall colours of gold and red and with the evergreens amongst them.
Every few kilometres we come upon small lakes along the side of the road. There are over a 1000 lakes in this area, many not named. Mostly small lakes but also some big ones such as Eagle Lake and Buttler Lake and Wabigoon Lake by Dryden. For the following 250KM there were only small lakes along the road, most of them not shown on our maps and the roads were in good shape.
We also encountered several road construction projects. They were amazing as it showed the difficulties of building highways through this uneven rocky terrain. They cut deep and wide gorges in the granite to straighten out the roads. All that granite gets crushed and is used as bedding for the roads.
We stopped at Kakabeka Falls for a walk around the falls. Big volume of water going over these falls so it was very noisy
We got into ThunderBay late afternoon and drove to a campsite on the waterfront Linda found online. The GPS took us through town and then out of town towards Lake Superior. We drove alongside of some large grain elevators onto a dirt road into an area with large earth moving equipment. The GPS said that we arrived at our destination. WTF we were at the edge of a big dump. So we turned around and drove back to ThunderBay and towards Kakabeka Falls where we spotted a campground on the way.
We managed to set up camp before dark, made dinner and had a short walk around the campground.
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#aFactADay2022
#469: the first chocolate egg was made in bristol in 1873. cadbury's, based in birmingham, followed closely, making their first easter egg two years later. the world's largest easter egg is in alberta, canada, measuring 9.5 metres and 2270 kilos. called the "vegreville pysanka", it allegedly took 12000 hours to assemble the 3500 aluminium pieces. pysanka (писанка) is a traditional eastern european easter egg decorated using wax-resist methods, coming from "to write" (pisać, pysaty, писати, пиша, пісаць. bonus points for guessing the languages for each.)
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The Vegreville Egg Park has an outdoor rink. Super Canadian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #randypondphotography #vegreville #outdoorrink #hockeylife #winter #ice #hockeyrink #photographer #photography #alberta #canada #fujixpro1 #xpro (at Vegreville, Alberta) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp2VM1ErsXW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
#randypondphotography#vegreville#outdoorrink#hockeylife#winter#ice#hockeyrink#photographer#photography#alberta#canada#fujixpro1#xpro
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"GUARDS PATROL TOWN OF VEGREVILLE, ALTA." Kingston Whig-Standard. June 30, 1933. Page 13.
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Attempt Is Made to Shoot Witness in McLean Murder Trial
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VEGREVILLE, Alta., June 30 - Armed guards patrolled the town of Vegreville early today following an attempt to shoot Hugh Stewart, a witness in the trial of William McLean charged with the murder of Walter Parsille, Manville farmer.
Armed guards were thrown about roads leading from the town and at the camp a few minutes after Stew- art notified police and asked protection.
During the night, the guards stopped all cars leaving town and caused those riding in the machines to give credentials.
William McLean, and his father, Kenneth, were arrested at Knoxville, Tenn., following an international search, three months ago. The McLeans had worked in the Manville district as farm hands. Parsille was killed last fall. Robbery was believed the motive for the slaying.
#vegreville#murder trial#attempted shooting#attempted murder#murder#farm hands#farm workers#farming in canada#robbery gone wrong#robbery with violence#international manhunt#great depression in canada#crime and punishment in canada#history of crime and punishment in canada#alberta history#vigilante justice
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It’s debatable whether or not I’m of Ukrainian heritage but I did live in the prairies as a kid and of course learned how to make pysanky and I still make them every year before easter. Also fun fact vegreville alberta has the worlds largest Easter egg which happens to be a pysanka
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