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  • Ralph Crawford, proprietor of Crawford's Used Books, Perdue, Saskatchewan. The building was originally constructed for the Merchant's Bank, later purchased by Bank of Montreal and, finally, used as a doctor's office before being left vacant for a few years until purchased by Ralph Crawford seven years ago (in 2004). Crawford, who moved from New Brunswick, spent a year preparing the space, opening six years ago (2005).
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  • Ralph Crawford, proprietor of Crawford's Used Books, Perdue, Saskatchewan. The building was originally constructed for the Merchant's Bank, later purchased by Bank of Montreal and, finally, used as a doctor's office before being left vacant for a few years until purchased by Ralph Crawford seven years ago (in 2004). Crawford, who moved from New Brunswick, spent a year preparing the space, opening six years ago (2005).
    Crawford's Used Books Perdue Saskatc...jpg
  • Ralph Crawford, proprietor of Crawford's Used Books, Perdue, Saskatchewan. The building was originally constructed for the Merchant's Bank, later purchased by Bank of Montreal and, finally, used as a doctor's office before being left vacant for a few years until purchased by Ralph Crawford seven years ago (in 2004). Crawford, who moved from New Brunswick, spent a year preparing the space, opening six years ago (2005).
    Crawford's Used Books Perdue Saskatc...jpg
  • Ralph Crawford, proprietor of Crawford's Used Books, Perdue, Saskatchewan. The building was originally constructed for the Merchant's Bank, later purchased by Bank of Montreal and, finally, used as a doctor's office before being left vacant for a few years until purchased by Ralph Crawford seven years ago (in 2004). Crawford, who moved from New Brunswick, spent a year preparing the space, opening six years ago (2005).
    Crawford's Used Books Perdue Saskatc...jpg
  • Ralph Crawford, proprietor of Crawford's Used Books, Perdue, Saskatchewan. The building was originally constructed for the Merchant's Bank, later purchased by Bank of Montreal and, finally, used as a doctor's office before being left vacant for a few years until purchased by Ralph Crawford seven years ago (in 2004). Crawford, who moved from New Brunswick, spent a year preparing the space, opening six years ago (2005).
    Crawford's Used Books Perdue Saskatc...jpg
  • Ralph Crawford, proprietor of Crawford's Used Books, Perdue, Saskatchewan. The building was originally constructed for the Merchant's Bank, later purchased by Bank of Montreal and, finally, used as a doctor's office before being left vacant for a few years until purchased by Ralph Crawford seven years ago (in 2004). Crawford, who moved from New Brunswick, spent a year preparing the space, opening six years ago (2005).
    Crawford's Used Books Perdue Saskatc...jpg
  • Ralph Crawford, proprietor of Crawford's Used Books, Perdue, Saskatchewan. The building was originally constructed for the Merchant's Bank, later purchased by Bank of Montreal and, finally, used as a doctor's office before being left vacant for a few years until purchased by Ralph Crawford seven years ago (in 2004). Crawford, who moved from New Brunswick, spent a year preparing the space, opening six years ago (2005).
    Crawford's Used Books Perdue Saskatc...jpg
  • Ralph Crawford, proprietor of Crawford's Used Books, Perdue, Saskatchewan. The building was originally constructed for the Merchant's Bank, later purchased by Bank of Montreal and, finally, used as a doctor's office before being left vacant for a few years until purchased by Ralph Crawford seven years ago (in 2004). Crawford, who moved from New Brunswick, spent a year preparing the space, opening six years ago (2005).
    Crawford's Used Books Perdue Saskatc...jpg
  • Ralph Crawford, proprietor of Crawford's Used Books, Perdue, Saskatchewan. The building was originally constructed for the Merchant's Bank, later purchased by Bank of Montreal and, finally, used as a doctor's office before being left vacant for a few years until purchased by Ralph Crawford seven years ago (in 2004). Crawford, who moved from New Brunswick, spent a year preparing the space, opening six years ago (2005).
    Crawford's Used Books Perdue Saskatc...jpg
  • Ralph Crawford, proprietor of Crawford's Used Books, Perdue, Saskatchewan. The building was originally constructed for the Merchant's Bank, later purchased by Bank of Montreal and, finally, used as a doctor's office before being left vacant for a few years until purchased by Ralph Crawford seven years ago (in 2004). Crawford, who moved from New Brunswick, spent a year preparing the space, opening six years ago (2005).
    Crawford's Used Books Perdue Saskatc...jpg
  • Ralph Crawford, proprietor of Crawford's Used Books, Perdue, Saskatchewan. The building was originally constructed for the Merchant's Bank, later purchased by Bank of Montreal and, finally, used as a doctor's office before being left vacant for a few years until purchased by Ralph Crawford seven years ago (in 2004). Crawford, who moved from New Brunswick, spent a year preparing the space, opening six years ago (2005).
    Crawford's Used Books Perdue Saskatc...jpg
  • Ralph Crawford, proprietor of Crawford's Used Books, Perdue, Saskatchewan. The building was originally constructed for the Merchant's Bank, later purchased by Bank of Montreal and, finally, used as a doctor's office before being left vacant for a few years until purchased by Ralph Crawford seven years ago (in 2004). Crawford, who moved from New Brunswick, spent a year preparing the space, opening six years ago (2005).
    Crawford's Used Books Perdue Saskatc...jpg
  • Bicycle Commuters. downtown Saskatoon on an August afternoon. Cyclists on Twenty-Fourth Street, eastbound sharrows.
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  • Bicycle Commuters. downtown Saskatoon on an August afternoon. Fourth Avenue bicycle lanes southbound.
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  • Bicycle Commuters. downtown Saskatoon on an August afternoon. Fourth Avenue bicycle lanes southbound.
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  • Bicycle Commuters. downtown Saskatoon on an August afternoon. Fourth Avenue bicycle lanes southbound.
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  • Bicycle Commuters. downtown Saskatoon on an August afternoon. Spadina Crescent bicycle lanes, southbound.
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  • Bicycle Commuters. downtown Saskatoon on an August afternoon. Twenty-Fourth Street bicycle sharrows, eastbound.
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  • Bicycle Commuters. downtown Saskatoon on an August afternoon. Twenty-Fourth Street bicycle sharrows, but cyclist is near centre, preparing to turn left.
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  • Bicycle Commuters. downtown Saskatoon on an August afternoon. Twenty-Fourth Street bicycle sharrows.
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  • Bicycle Commuters. downtown Saskatoon on an August afternoon. Fourth Avenue bicycle lanes southbound.
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  • Bicycle Commuters. downtown Saskatoon on an August afternoon. Spadina Crescent bicycle lanes, southbound.
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  • Bicycle Commuters. downtown Saskatoon on an August afternoon. Spadina Crescent bicycle lanes, southbound.
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  • Bicycle Commuters. downtown Saskatoon on an August afternoon. Cycling along Fourth Avenue, bicycle lanes, southbound.
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  • Bicycle Commuters. downtown Saskatoon on an August afternoon. Twenty-Fourth Street bicycle sharrows, but cyclist is near centre, preparing to turn left.
    2011-08-101-0135-D_AdobeRGB.jpg
  • Bicycle Commuters. downtown Saskatoon on an August afternoon. Twenty-Fourth Street bicycle sharrows, but cyclist is near centre, preparing to turn left.
    2011-08-101-0134-D_AdobeRGB.jpg
  • Bicycle Commuters. downtown Saskatoon on an August afternoon. Twenty-Fourth Street bicycle sharrows, but cyclist is near centre, preparing to turn left.
    2011-08-101-0130-D_AdobeRGB.jpg
  • Bicycle Commuters. downtown Saskatoon on an August afternoon. Twenty-Fourth Street bicycle sharrows.
    2011-08-101-0123-D_AdobeRGB.jpg
  • Bicycle Commuters. downtown Saskatoon on an August afternoon. Spadina Crescent bicycle lanes, southbound.
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  • Ghostown Blues Bed & Breakfast, Highway 271, 1 km west of Maple Creek, SK. <br />
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This is one of two sheep wagons. This wagon required little restoration, as it had been well preserved by a covering that was put over it many years ago. Contents are authentic, including the bed (but with modern mattress), stove, benches, pull-out table, track lamp, shelf, and towel racks. End walls originally were canvas, but Greg replaced with wood because he liked the way it looked. <br />
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Greg Hisey: "This wagon came from the Capser ranch, Capser, (near) Harlowton, Montana. (The ranch) went from Harlowton to Rygate. Bill Capser was 82 years old  when I got this wagon."<br />
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The wagon was used until about 1939, when the Second World War cut off the ranch's supply of Basque sheep herders. The Studebaker running gear dates to 1896."<br />
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This is a genuine, original sheep wagon stove. Hisey says it had been kept in a barn and never used, so it's in mint condition.<br />
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"Sheep camp stoves had to be tin. They called this a 'Go-to-Hell Stove'. I don't know, someone could tell you why they call it a 'Go-to-Hell Stove', or why that was the name of it, but that's what they called these tin stoves. I think it's because they got so hot!  They wanted them to heat up, quick hot fire and cool down."<br />
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"It's a workable stove, but I fill them with bricks because I don't want people using them."
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  • Saskatchewan Railway Museum. The museum has three flatcars, one shown here: Canadian National 57519, built 1912, acquired in 1992; Canadian National 59039, built 1918, acquired in 1992; Canadian Pacific 420833, built 1929, acquired in 2002. Among the hopper cars is  Canadian Pacific Ore Car 377193 (smaller car in middle), used to haul ore to the smelter in Trail, B.C.
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  • Winter Camping, Paignton Beach, Prince Albert National Park. Nighfall closes in on our campsite at Paignton Beach. Colleen (Gnyp) and I made a second winter camping trip the weekend following my trip with Mark Nicholson. We used this picnic shelter for our cooking. In the evening, we sat and drank green tea steeped in my stainless steel camp kettle.
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  • When they used to arrive by special excursion train from all across the prairies, they took to Little Manitou Lake in small wooden boats. Today they drive by car and play on inflatable dinghies and personal watercraft. Times change, but summertime at Manitou Beach is timeless.
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  • Rob and Lisa Roschuk. Portraits at campsite at Hudson Bay Regional Park, end of Day 6.<br />
Rob:<br />
How many GASP tours have you been on? First one in 2015.<br />
What was the first tour you have been on? When was it? 2015.<br />
What advice would you give someone on their first tour? Relax, enjoy.<br />
What do you like to eat on tour? Subs.<br />
What is your favourite place to go on your bike? Why is it your favourite? Treed trails.<br />
Tell us about your first bike. Takes getting used to.<br />
If you could go anywhere on your bike, where would you go? Sask trails.<br />
If you could ride your bike with anybody in history, who would it be? Where would you go with them, and why? Wayne Gretsky, tour Alberta.<br />
Lisa:<br />
What advice would you give someone on their first tour? Enjoy.<br />
What do you like to eat on tour? Sandwiches.<br />
What is your favourite place to go on your bike? Why is it your favourite? Through forests, refreshing.<br />
Tell us about your first bike. Comfort and now hybrid.<br />
If you could go anywhere on your bike, where would you go? Northern Saskatchewan.<br />
If you could ride your bike with anybody in history, who would it be? Where would you go with them, and why? John Cabot.
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  • Winter Camping, Paignton Beach, Prince Albert National Park. Nighfall closes in on our campsite at Paignton Beach. Colleen and I used this picnic shelter for our cooking. In the evening, we sat and drank green tea steeped in my stainless steel camp kettle.
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  • Returning to the old neighbourhood, walking along Kootenay Avenue and Ritchie Avenue on a fall (early winter) evening: 410 Ritchie. originally the home of S.G. Blaylock. Blaylock started as a surveyor for Cominco in 1899, was the general manager of Cominco in 1919, and president in 1939. The house is now owned by Teck and is used as a guest house for company officials and guests and for visiting officers of 44th Engineer Squadron, headquartered in Trail.
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  • Homestead Cabin, Ghostown Blues Bed & Breakfast, Highway 271, 1 km west of Maple Creek, SK. <br />
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Ghostown Blues owner Greg Hisey says this was originally a settlers' cabin from northeast of town. Greg says the most recent owner before he moved it to Ghostown Blues believes the cabin was moved to a school and the schoolmarm lived in it. <br />
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"In Maple Creek and all these little communities, there's these little shacks that they've moved off, settlers' shacks that they've moved into town. This one was not big enough to put garage doors in, but that's what most of them became. It was kept like this. Of course it didn't look like that when I got it. That's the original siding. I put the window in the end and you can see where I spliced in the boards there. That's an old clapboard type siding. It's a neat little old building. There's some carvings on it." <br />
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During Maple Creek's annual cowboy poetry gathering, the cabin may be used to billet cowboy poets. The cabin is also used as the "green room" for the folk and blues bands that Greg brings to perform at the lodge (outside, if the weather is nice), four times a year.
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  • Winter Camping, Paignton Beach, Prince Albert National Park. Nighfall closes in on our campsite at Paignton Beach. Colleen and I used this picnic shelter for our cooking. In the evening, we sat and drank green tea steeped in my stainless steel camp kettle.
    2010-03-002-0022-D.JPG
  • Historic log cabin (L) and Homestead cabin (R), Ghostown Blues Bed & Breakfast, Highway 271, 1 km west of Maple Creek, SK. <br />
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This cabin was originally a cowboy's line shack. On the big ranches, cowboys would stay at these shacks on the prairie when they couldn't make it home at night, Greg Hisey says.<br />
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The settlers' cabin in the background was moved into Maple Creek from northeast of town. A previous owner told Hisey that it was moved to a school for a time and used by the schoolmarm. Like many old prairie cabins, this had been moved into town. But unlike most, it was too small to be converted to a garage, so it remained relatively intact all these years.
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  • Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC) Summit on Aboriginal Education, February 24-25, 2009. Delegate "quick portraits" during registration sign-in, used for a PowerPoint presentation highlighting the people attending.
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  • Ghostown Blues Bed & Breakfast, Highway 271, 1 km west of Maple Creek, SK. <br />
<br />
This is one of two sheep wagons. This wagon required little restoration, as it had been well preserved by a covering that was put over it many years ago. Contents are authentic, including the bed (but with modern mattress), stove, benches, pull-out table, track lamp, shelf, and towel racks. End walls originally were canvas, but Greg replaced with wood because he liked the way it looked. <br />
<br />
Greg Hisey: "This wagon came from the Capser ranch, Capser, (near) Harlowton, Montana. (The ranch) went from Harlowton to Rygate. Bill Capser was 82 years old  when I got this wagon."<br />
<br />
The wagon was used until about 1939, when the Second World War cut off the ranch's supply of Basque sheep herders. The Studebaker running gear dates to 1896."
    2012-08-001-0955-D.tif
  • Ghostown Blues Bed & Breakfast, Highway 271, 1 km west of Maple Creek, SK. Sheep Wagons and re-created sheep herders' camp.<br />
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Greg Hisey, on the stone cairns: "Sheep herders used those up on high ridges to mark their territory. Wwhen I set up this little camp I wanted it to look like a sheep camp."<br />
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"Most of them are still standing around Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Idaho. Nevada had a lot sheep, and they still have a lot of Basque people and Basque sheep herders in Nevada."
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  • Ghostown Blues Bed & Breakfast, Highway 271, 1 km west of Maple Creek, SK. Sheep Wagons and re-created sheep herders' camp.<br />
<br />
Greg Hisey, on the stone cairns: "Sheep herders used those up on high ridges to mark their territory. Wwhen I set up this little camp I wanted it to look like a sheep camp."<br />
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"Most of them are still standing around Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Idaho. Nevada had a lot sheep, and they still have a lot of Basque people and Basque sheep herders in Nevada."
    2012-08-001-0984-D.tif
  • Ghostown Blues Bed & Breakfast, Highway 271, 1 km west of Maple Creek, SK. <br />
<br />
This is one of two sheep wagons. This wagon required little restoration, as it had been well preserved by a covering that was put over it many years ago. Contents are authentic, including the bed (but with modern mattress), stove, benches, pull-out table, track lamp, shelf, and towel racks. End walls originally were canvas, but Greg replaced with wood because he liked the way it looked. <br />
<br />
Greg Hisey: "This wagon came from the Capser ranch, Capser, (near) Harlowton, Montana. (The ranch) went from Harlowton to Rygate. Bill Capser was 82 years old  when I got this wagon."<br />
<br />
The wagon was used until about 1939, when the Second World War cut off the ranch's supply of Basque sheep herders. The Studebaker running gear dates to 1896."
    2012-08-001-0947-D.tif
  • Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC) Summit on Aboriginal Education, February 24-25, 2009. Delegate "quick portraits" during registration sign-in, used for a PowerPoint presentation highlighting the people attending.
    CMEC Aboriginal Education Summit 200...jpg
  • Ghostown Blues Bed & Breakfast, Highway 271, 1 km west of Maple Creek, SK. <br />
<br />
This is one of two sheep wagons. This wagon required little restoration, as it had been well preserved by a covering that was put over it many years ago. Contents are authentic, including the bed (but with modern mattress), stove, benches, pull-out table, track lamp, shelf, and towel racks. End walls originally were canvas, but Greg replaced with wood because he liked the way it looked. <br />
<br />
Greg Hisey: "This wagon came from the Capser ranch, Capser, (near) Harlowton, Montana. (The ranch) went from Harlowton to Rygate. Bill Capser was 82 years old  when I got this wagon."<br />
<br />
The wagon was used until about 1939, when the Second World War cut off the ranch's supply of Basque sheep herders. The Studebaker running gear dates to 1896."
    2012-08-001-0963-D.tif
  • Inside the Lodge, a former church, Ghostown Blues Bed & Breakfast, Highway 271, 1 km west of Maple Creek, SK. <br />
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The church was built in the town of Hatton in 1912. Before Hatton was almost entirely destroyed by fire in 1921, followed by the CPR's decision to bypass the town in 1928, the town had become one of the most prosperous in Western Canada.<br />
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"More grain was shipped out of Hatton Saskatchewan than any other town in Canada in 1915," says Greg Hisey, owner of Ghostown Blues. "They had nine wooden grain elevators there. It was quite a thriving little community."<br />
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The Dirty Thirties all but sealed the fate of Hatton. By 1949, there were only six parishioners left to support the church. The Lutheran Church in Maple Creek bought the building for the remaining value of the mortgage on it, about $400, and moved it to Maple Creek. When the Trans Canada Highway pushed through the prairies, bypassing Hatton for Maple Creek, the town didn't stand much of a chance.<br />
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In 1970, the Lutherans built a new church, sending this building across the railroad tracks to be used as a storage shed.
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  • Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC) Summit on Aboriginal Education, February 24-25, 2009. Delegate "quick portraits" during registration sign-in, used for a PowerPoint presentation highlighting the people attending.
    CMEC Aboriginal Education Summit 200...jpg
  • Ghostown Blues Bed & Breakfast, Highway 271, 1 km west of Maple Creek, SK. <br />
<br />
This is one of two sheep wagons. This wagon required little restoration, as it had been well preserved by a covering that was put over it many years ago. Contents are authentic, including the bed (but with modern mattress), stove, benches, pull-out table, track lamp, shelf, and towel racks. End walls originally were canvas, but Greg replaced with wood because he liked the way it looked. <br />
<br />
Greg Hisey: "This wagon came from the Capser ranch, Capser, (near) Harlowton, Montana. (The ranch) went from Harlowton to Rygate. Bill Capser was 82 years old  when I got this wagon."<br />
<br />
The wagon was used until about 1939, when the Second World War cut off the ranch's supply of Basque sheep herders. The Studebaker running gear dates to 1896."
    2012-08-001-0956-D_blend.tif
  • Constructed in 1913 and upgraded in 1957 and 1974, this is an excellent example of a traditional wooden cribbed-construction, gable-roofed elevator with gable-roofed cupola. The "standard plan" elevator, circa 1910 - 1965, typically stood 50 to 60 feet high, with approximately 40,000 bushel capacity. The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool donated the elevator to the Village of Elbow in 2007 to use as a museum.
    2016070010177NOAKES_Elbow_Elevator_2...JPG
  • Detail, dovetail construction of the Historic Log Cabin, Ghostown Blues Bed & Breakfast, Highway 271, 1 km west of Maple Creek, SK. Greg Hisey: "That's an amazing build. The axe-smith who put this together with zero gaps and every log fully scribed from one end to the other.... it's pine. The Cypress Hills burned in 1886 or 1887. One of the old ranchers down there told me that they were not allowed to cut live trees, so they had to use for building standing deadfall. That would explain why there was no chinking in it, because it was shrunk if it was standing deadfall. That kind of verifies the .time it was built. It's an amazing little cabin."
    2012-08-001-0911-D.tif
  • Detail, dovetail construction of the Historic Log Cabin, Ghostown Blues Bed & Breakfast, Highway 271, 1 km west of Maple Creek, SK. Greg Hisey: "That's an amazing build. The axe-smith who put this together with zero gaps and every log fully scribed from one end to the other.... it's pine. The Cypress Hills burned in 1886 or 1887. One of the old ranchers down there told me that they were not allowed to cut live trees, so they had to use for building standing deadfall. That would explain why there was no chinking in it, because it was shrunk if it was standing deadfall. That kind of verifies the .time it was built. It's an amazing little cabin."
    2012-08-001-0908-D.tif
  • Constructed in 1913 and upgraded in 1957 and 1974, this is an excellent example of a traditional wooden cribbed-construction, gable-roofed elevator with gable-roofed cupola. The "standard plan" elevator, circa 1910 - 1965, typically stood 50 to 60 feet high, with approximately 40,000 bushel capacity. The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool donated the elevator to the Village of Elbow in 2007 to use as a museum.
    2016070010173 Elbow Elevator
  • Detail, dovetail construction of the Historic Log Cabin, Ghostown Blues Bed & Breakfast, Highway 271, 1 km west of Maple Creek, SK. Greg Hisey: "That's an amazing build. The axe-smith who put this together with zero gaps and every log fully scribed from one end to the other.... it's pine. The Cypress Hills burned in 1886 or 1887. One of the old ranchers down there told me that they were not allowed to cut live trees, so they had to use for building standing deadfall. That would explain why there was no chinking in it, because it was shrunk if it was standing deadfall. That kind of verifies the .time it was built. It's an amazing little cabin."
    2012-08-001-0910-D.tif
  • Trapper's Tent, Ghostown Blues Bed & Breakfast, Highway 271, 1 km west of Maple Creek, SK. <br />
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Greg Hisey: "That was owned by a guy named Bob Doonan. It was his hunting tent. Bob Doonan died five or six years ago. He lived with Charlie Russell, down at his ranch one winter. Charlie Russell was in south Alberta quite a bit, but he got over here, too. I just got it, because, oh, man if it could talk! The stories it would tell! It's an old one, and probably by the end of this summer in the sun, it's getting to where you can't use it any more. But I wanted to get it up at least once."
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  • Historic log cabin (L) and Homestead cabin (R), Ghostown Blues Bed & Breakfast, Highway 271, 1 km west of Maple Creek, SK. <br />
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This cabin was originally a cowboy's line shack. On the big ranches, cowboys would stay at these shacks on the prairie when they couldn't make it home at night, Greg Hisey says.<br />
<br />
This cabin stood on the big ranch run by the Ramsay family.<br />
<br />
"Bill Ramsay . . . said his great granddad moved this off the prairies in the 1920s. He thinks it was built around 1912."<br />
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"The Cypress Hills burned in 1886 or 1887. One of the old ranchers down there told me that they were not allowed to cut live trees, so they had to use for building standing deadfall. That would explain why there was no chinking in it, because it was shrunk if it was standing deadfall. That kind of verifies the time it was built."
    2012-08-001-0863-D.tif
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