Rochfort Trestle Bridge, over the Paddle River valley in Alberta, Canada. Built in 1914, it is the longest wooden trestle bridge in North America at 736 metres long. Photo credit: Trevor Sokolan, 2009

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A preserved hamburger from 1969 encased in resin

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1913 vs 2018 – “Crossroads of Canada”; Intersection of Portage and Main – Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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Conveyor belt of the Obed Mountain Mine in Alberta, Canada. Regardless of it being a coal mine I just think the conveyor belt is kind of neat

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Brooks Aqueduct in Alberta, Canada. Built in 1914 to irrigate a section of the semi-arid Palliser’s Triangle, claimed to be the largest concrete structure in existence at the time. Replaced by earthen canals and shut down in 1979 due to deterioration. Now a National Historic Site

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1921 Nankai Electric Railway streetcar from Osaka, Japan on the High Level Bridge in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Photo credit: Bill Burris

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Inspectors on the Deh Cho Bridge (1.1 km-long) over the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Opened in 2012, the river was previously crossed by either ferry or ice road, depending on the season

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Dunvegan Bridge, over the Peace River in Alberta, Canada. Built in 1960, it is the longest vehicle suspension bridge in Alberta

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Park Bridge in the Kicking Horse Pass in British Columbia, Canada

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Diavik Diamond Mine, Northwest Territories, Canada. Employs 1,000 and produces 7 million carats of diamonds annually

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1940s- Proposed United Nations HQ on Navy Island between Canada and the US; the island would have been ceded to the UN and become the “World Peace Capital”

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Spillway of the Oldman River Dam in Alberta, Canada during the 2013 floods

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Valley Line LRT in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; opening this summer (hopefully) at a length of 13.1 km (to be expanded to 27 km by 2026 or 2027)

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Kingston Powell Building (1907) in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada – before and after restoration in 2005

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New York Coliseum, an office building and convention centre opened in 1956. The brainchild of Robert Moses who cleared the area of “slums”, it was never popular and was demolished in 2000 for the Time Warner Center after years of debate on what would take its place

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South Water Street Freight Depot of the Illinois Central Railroad in Chicago, Illinois, USA; taken by Jack Delano on May 1, 1943

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CN’s Super Continental arriving at the train station of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1976. The train ran from 1955-1990 going from Montreal to Vancouver.

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Dawson Bridge in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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High Level Bridge (1913) with 1912 streetcar and the Dudley B. Menzies LRT Bridge (1992) with 70s/80s Siemens–Duewag U2 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Photo credit: IQRemix

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2017 Portrait of Prince Philip by Australian artist Ralph Heimans

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Milne Inlet mining port on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. Exports iron ore mined at Mary River; it has only 90 ice-free days each year

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Whitemud Creek Sewer Pipeline Bridge in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Photo credit: Coffee & Baileys

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Commonwealth of Belle Isle – 2013 proposal by a group of wealthy investors to purchase the Detroit park for $1 billion and turn it into a libertarian city-state with a $300,000 citizenship fee and no car-access (only monorail)

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2 Columbus Circle in NYC: Designed by Edward Durell Stone, opened in 1964 as the Gallery of Modern Art. Amid controversy it was rejected for landmark designation and was renovated 2005-2008, completely altering its once-distinctive and unique appearance in exchange for an unremarkable glass facade

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The Rattenbury Wing of Chateau Lake Louise, one of Canada’s grand railway hotels. Designed by Francis Rattenbury 1900-1912, it was destroyed by fire in 1924 and replaced by the Barrot Wing a year later

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Inco Superstack in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. At 381 metres it is the tallest chimney in the Western hemisphere and second tallest freestanding chimney in the world. Built 1972 to disperse waste gases from a nickel smelter away from the city, and decommissioned in 2020, to be demolished over time

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The Walterdale Bridge in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Completed in 2017, replacing the original Walterdale Bridge from 1913 which was then demolished

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Ford Hall (formerly the Winter Garden) pedway in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Connects Rogers Place (hockey arena) to a 13 km network of pedways and tunnels integrated with the LRT network

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Ritchie School in Edmonton, Alberta. Opened in 1913, it was built on a slough that caused the basement to flood in its first year. Slowly sinking, the original wing was sealed off in the 70s from the newer parts of the school and was finally demolished earlier this year

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Fort Edmonton Footbridge and Wolf Willow Ravine stairs in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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The Strathcona Refinery, part of the Refinery Row area in Sherwood Park, Alberta. Around 30% of Western Canada’s refinery capacity is provided by Strathcona

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City Hall for Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; proposed at the height of the wheat boom, plans for a civic centre were abandoned after the collapse of the local real estate market and the onset of the First World War. A dedicated city hall would not be built until the 1950s. Unknown architect, early 1900s

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Great Western Garment Factory in 1926, 1953, and 2018. Currently home to a farmer’s market. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada – 1912 Plan

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Refinery Row – Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada; Downtown skyline of Edmonton in distance

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2,000 foot hotel proposed for Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 1971. Would have been the tallest building in the world at the time, third tallest now

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1940s- Proposed United Nations HQ on Navy Island between Canada and the US; the island would have been ceded to the UN and become the “World Peace Capital”

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Imperial Bank of Canada (1907-1950) in Edmonton, Alberta. Included a separate room for women to make deposits without their husband’s knowing, while the rest of the building was occupied by legal firms and apartments for the bank clerks. Replaced by a larger modern classicist bank in 1954.

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The 1908 courthouse of Edmonton, Alberta. Demolished in 1972 for the City Centre Mall

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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada - 1957

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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada - Civic Centre Plan - 1960's

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Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s 1834 plan for a royal palace on the Acropolis where the Parthenon is

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Princess Grace Memorial Amphitheatre – 1986 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Rejected Proposal for Edmonton City Hall competition in 1980

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Alldritt Tower (280 m), proposed skyscraper for Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. If built, it will succeed the Stantec Tower (260 m) as the tallest building in Canada outside of Toronto

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Dawson City, Yukon, Canada

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July 22, 1968: Winnipeg's St Boniface Cathedral, “the Mother Church of Western Canada”, destroyed by a carelessly discarded cigarette in the midst of renovation work, with only the exterior walls, facade, and sacristy surviving

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Me watching the Democracy Week votes jump back and forth... and Subnautica taking the lead

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Students at the University of Alberta playing on an old fire escape slide, 1940

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Edmonton City Hall, completed in 1957 as one of the first modernist city halls in Canada. Controversial from the beginning, it was deemed outdated and too expensive to save and was demolished 1989-90

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Enbridge Edmonton Terminal in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Holds over 13 million barrels of crude oil

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Tehek All Weather Road, Nunavut, Canada. 108 km long, connecting the Meadowbank Gold Mine to Baker Lake (the only inland community in the Canadian arctic)

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Port of Churchill in Manitoba; Canada's only deep-water arctic port

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Steam-powered gold dredge on the North Saskatchewan River, at Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (1898)[1428x800]

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Not sure if this has been posted here before - 1912 Planned Scheme of Buildings for the University

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When Jon Calls Your Empire The Ottomans

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Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799), French composer, fencer, and violinist, sometimes referred to as the Black Mozart

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Canadian Artillery in Action, Captain Kenneth Keith Forbes, oil, 1918

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Barbara Ann Scott (1928-2012), Canadian figure skater, known as Canada's Sweetheart

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Stephen James Napier Tennant (1906-1987), British poet and socialite, lover of war poet Siegfried Sassoon, and regarded as the brightest of the Bright Young Things

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Never invade Russia in the winter; so let's invade Holy Roman North Africa instead!

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Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980), Canadian philosopher, academic and public intellectual

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Michael I (1921-2017), King of Romania

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McDougall Memorial United Church built in 1875 destroyed by fire - Morley, Alberta, Canada - 2017 [1180x664]

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The Viscountess Astor (1879-1964), first woman to sit in the British House of Commons

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