A Calgary Dream in Ruins
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2018
- Calgary, Alberta has its fair share of intriguing houses. But for me, Calgary’s most interesting house ever, was an unfinished sandstone castle on the banks of the Elbow River. This is the story of Lindsay’s Folly, a Calgary Pioneer’s dream home that now sits in ruins.
Here is a map to all the locations mentioned in the video, go out and explore them: goo.gl/H564z8
We just moved to Mount Royal. The kids and I were just on a hike exploring the area and stumbled upon this curiosity. Thanks to you, we now know the story! Getting the kids interested in history is easier because of cool videos like this. Thanks!
I love your videos, I’m happy to see a Calgarian producing such great content
Thank you for the very kind words, I appreciate your support.
Extremely interesting content. Ive been in Calgary for only two months now, but for some reason the city seems to get more and more interesting as I watch your content. Keep it up!
NBA Insider Calgary is super interesting and vibrant! It has a lot of neat history and there's always something happening :)
NBA Insider I have bin there my hole life and I still live here
Love this!! We need more videos about Calgary history.
These Calgary history docs are awesome! I hope you make tons more!
Is this who Lindsey Park is named after?
I live in Calgary and I love watching these videos! Keep making them 😀
Please keep making these videos! I love that somebody is making videos on tidbits of Calgary's history. I really enjoy your style; the easygoing music, use of dynamic and static imagery, as well as the animated portions blend really well together. The content is well researched and presented excellently. Whatever process you are using, keep using it!
Wow, thank you for the kind words, the support I have received for making these videos has been super positive. I am a recent Education grad who is now working as a sub in the CBE, so I research local history and create these stories when I am not subbing. When it comes to video, I am self taught, but I have a background in art and design and photography. I am just happy people are learning from these videos, and that they get excited about Calgary because of them. Definitely more to come, I have been working on the next one for the past few days.
I grew up near there and remember many visits and tales about Lindsay's Castle. Great Memories, so sad to see all that Graffiti on it now :( :( :(
Great work! Always awesome to see fellow Albertans making great content!
thank you for the kind words.
Love these videos! I grew up just north of Calgary and seeing such well produced, beautifully cinematographed videos pertaining to places that I have actually seem but knew little about is so amazing to me :) thank you for sharing with us!
Fantastic video! Having been born and raised in Calgary since the mid 70's, I thought I knew every nook and cranny because I used to spend a great deal of my time exploring from my pre teens (7 or 8yrs old) to my early 20s. A friend and I would walk or use our bikes all the way out to the city limits SW,SE,NW, NE, every off beaten track within the city, exploring in the bushes and even extremely old hidden underground tunnels we'd find. Wed be gone before sun up to sundown. Either we both had crappy parents because they never got worried, or it really was just a different time back then. We found some straight up scary stuff at times including remains on 2 occasions.. I cannot think that I'd have forgotten about this ruin! Either way thank you for this delightful find!!!
Subbed!! :-)
Hey, that's how I am now! I am always snooping around, exploring within the city on foot, bike, or car. Thanks for subbing, and thanks for the support!
Kelsy Norman Hey Kelsy!! For some odd reason I just received a notification of someone liking my comment. I am so sorry! I haven't been receiving any video's in my sub box either and I do have the bell turned on... Definitely going to see what I've missed.
Did you grow up here as well? Have you been to the Ink Pots at the top of Johnston Canyon? Not sure if it is true or not but I heard that the flood destroyed them. I seriously hope not!! Bad enough that my favorite lake Forget Me Not is just gone, as though it never existed in the first place along with a bunch of my favorite places to go...
I've been considering for quite some time since moving back here of getting my channel fired back up making a variety of Calgary and surrounding areas videos. I think it would be fun for me while being hopefully interesting to others. Think I only have 20 subs but thats no big deal. Hopefully people will find me. I remember the city skyline back when the Calgary Tower was the tallest building here and in Canada. Super cool seeing how much has changed for its 50th anniversary. (I'm not that old mind you...just turning 42 in 12 days)
Most definitely keep exploring and uploading! You make fantastic content. Happy Stampede!!!!
YEEEEEEEE-HAWWWWW!!! (lol) 🐴🐮🐃🎡🎢🎶🏇🐎
Edit: Just noticed that UA-cam unsubbed me from your channel! Figure I better let you know incase it's happened to some of your other subs..
Great to hear from you. Send me an email and I can send a list of places you could check out in and around Calgary kelsynorman@gmail.com
Amazing. I love this city
Thank you. I can’t believe I never heard of this before
This was great!! Living in Calgary my whole life, seen this ruin 100s of time and never knew what it was from. Thank you.
You make really awesome content. even though I don't live in Calgary I still love the way you present the city. I really wish we had someone in Edmonton making amaizng content like you. keep up the great work!
Oh wow, thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate that. I work hard on these videos, and I am glad people enjoy them, and get something out of them. Thank you for your support.
nick paz dunno that’s pretty far away. Joking!
nothin too amazing in edmonton though lol
I love your videos! I am also a Calgarian. I hope you continue making them.
I really love your content. Makes me interested in the culture and history of Calgary even more!
I've run past there on the Elbow River Pathway hundreds of times and had no clue that was right above me. I'll be taking a small detour next time to explore.
It's pretty covered up right now, so if you didn't know it was there, you would probably run right past it. Thanks for watching!
thanks for the memories!
Interesting Calgary Videos. Keep up the good work.
I'm from Germany but I got Friends in Calgary and know the City. So it's interesting to hear about the history of all the places. Hope you make more videos about Calgary and sourounding Areas
I appreciate the support from Germany! Lots more Calgary videos coming out over the next few months.
God, I feel proud about living in Calgary now.
Love this, thanks for sharing!
grew up in Calgary in 1942 and lived there for 50 years.
I live in Calgary.Now I'm going to go find it. I loved watching this.Thankyou!
This is great stuff. Love learning about Calgary history and very well done video. Just awesome all around
Thank you for the kind words and support, it's much appreciated!
Seriously. Awesome. Really inspiring to me as someone who has moved to the city from elsewhere. I am always discovering great things about this city and you are showing me even more! Thank-you!
Oh, man, so happy I am helping enhance your Calgary experience. Thanks for watching, I appreciate your support.
Keep up the great work! Love seeing your videos about my hometown!
Love these calgary history videos you do! I live in the okanagan in BC but Calgary is my second home and its hard to look at the expansive city now and imagine what it looked like before.
Another fantastic video! Always wondered about the story. Thanks again for sharing :)
Love your videos please don't ever stop making them
I love your narration!
Thank you, I spend a lot of time researching and writing out what I want to say! Thanks for watching.
Brilliant thank you! Used to live in Calgary love the historical content!
Absolutely Fantastic
I love cowtown history..well done young man..well done.
I live just a couple of blocks away from this site so it was fantastic to learn about its' history!
Very interesting and *very well done. Looking forward to more. Thanks for the lessons.
Thanks for watching!
Subscribed. Keep making Calgary focused high-quality content and I'll keep watching :).
Awesome video! You are making great videos and hope to continue seeing more from you.
Thank you for those very kind words, I appreciate your support.
Interesting work. My family is from here and we have a building with our family name on it in what is now Ingelwood. Right next door west to the "Gary Theatre", which is now a Blues and Jazz club. My grandfather, Erastus, was a doctor and owned a few buildings in Calgary. The "Drum and Monkey" is a site of one of the buildings he owned also. It used to be a club called "Slack Alice's" . Nice video work, loved the history lesson. Thank you!
Superb! You are a great narrator & story teller. Subscribed!
Hi Kelsy! from Germany a big compliment for your historic report. I like this city! See you soon Calgary and good luck to you!
Wow, growing up on Stanley Drive us kids used to explore 'Lindsays Castle' on a regular basis. We also found a whole bunch of bones just south of the Castle tucked into the side of the hill closer to the river bank but above the pathway. I always wondered if it may have been a spot for a native buffalo jump. Great video and thanks!
So interesting!! Never knew of this place !
Fine work, sir. Appreciated this.
Thanks for watching, I appreciate your support.
You do a great job making your videos.
A beautifully done video. Thank you.
Thank you for watching.
Great video bud. I enjoy your work. (Thank your team for me)
My team is me, myself, and I, and we appreciate the praise. Thanks for watching.
Another great movie, dude.
Thanks for the kind words, I appreciate the support.
Excellent channel !!!
Thank you kindly!
I'm from Calgary!!!!!!
oooh i just subscribed! loooove your videos about calgary
Thank you for your support!
Love it
Keep doing this videos please
Thanks for the support!
Kelsy, the content you're creating is next level. I've always loved video, and only recently have been making efforts to get more into it and shoot more. The storytelling and compelling visual style combines for a really pleasant and unique vibe. Would love to buy you a coffee or a lunch sometime and pick your brain on a few things.
Thanks for the kind words. Hit me on the email and we can set up a coffee kelsynorman@gmail
Cool video man I live on the elbow in mission I'm going to go find this place thanks
Wow this is incredible. I went to that place couple years ago and wondering what all ruins were. Wow
Taxes ate the rest of his money. Sounds familiar. Lolol. Thanks for the history.
I live in galgary, I'll check that out
Those darn hooligans with their rattle cans!!
Darn them straight to hell!
Subscribed!
Love this citt
This reminds me of some of the old brickburn foundations in Edworthy park. A lot of the buildings in your videos use the bricks made there back in the day. Might make a good video. I like your stuff btw
thanks for the suggestion, and thank you for watching! I appreciate the support.
Watched a couple of your other videos, very cool!!! Not sure if you’re still with that lady, married!?!? You guys made a cute couple ☺️ Bring her back 😋 Love the music montage 🏵🇨🇦
Great video. I wish you could provide Google maps links so I could look up and visit these places myself (I'm Calgarian). Wonder what Lindsay would think about that Suncor building...
There are google maps in the video descriptions! Thanks for watching.
please show more early pictures of Calgary. I have lived here since 1980
Does anyone know if the sandstone mansion is still there? I'm a local photographer who would love to get some photos of this amazing place and its history today.
I got to get ahold of that historical map of Calgary! I love local history could you please drop me a link?
This is a good link to start with: maps.calgary.ca/DiscoverHistoricCalgary/
Kelsy Norman yoooo do you have the land ownership map from 1:05 sauce?
Good job Calgary haunted house video
I like it Calgary's Haunted house
You thanks video
I remember walking along that 'cliff' as a kid, and seeing very sparse remnants of stone here and there. It's so sad they renamed the Lindsay Park Athletic Centre after companies that paid thousands to get their name in advertising. Let's retain our heritage and keep the the names of historical figures (Alexander Calhoun, Dr. Lindsay and others) in public view.
Nice, thanks for sharing, and thanks for watching!
0:13 Haha, I live like a minute away from that house.
yeah the crackhouse on the edge of the stampede grounds is interesting >.
Calgary has an utterly embarrassing record for not appreciating and subsequently razing its historical architecture to the ground for glass and steel. Having lived in Europe for 26 years now, I have a whole new appreciation for how Europeans have preserved their history....many places having been rebuilt from the ground up after devastation of war. Places like Dresden, Berlin, Warsaw, Hamburg, Köln, Belgrade, Budapest and many more reconstructed their treasured architecture to its original design and beauty. The communist era of Central/Eastern Europe did its best to uglify the cities it held its grip on for decades but even they knew the value if their historical treasures.
Make a video about the calgary stampede and how it started
I actually recorded a podcast about that once, you can listen to it here: directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/4507624. For sure going to do something stampede related in July.
Kelsy Norman it would be awesome to watch a video about it. My uncle used to ride buffalo when they had it at the grandstand
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Here today, Gone tomorrow :(
Sad
I hate the Government so much
Paddle down the Bow bro, talk about the houses...
New video coming soon, "Bow Bro Flow". Thanks for watching.
I love your calgary videos!! I grew up in airdrie and recently moved into downtown so its wonderful to learn about history that i see on a daily basis! keep up the fantastic work!!