Exploring Alberta’s Hidden Gems: Grain Elevators, Geocaching & Scenic Backroads Adventure

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  • Опубліковано 30 лис 2024

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  • @ianpaterson7225
    @ianpaterson7225 25 днів тому

    I watched all these Rare Hidden Gems for years.
    I almost bought a house in Mossleigh a few years ago for $30,000 a d watched the old school getting renovated . I even got to do a glass top roof train ride on it's inaugural trip to the Grain elevators from Aspen Crossing.
    If you want Rare Hidden Gems, I got loads!

    • @DanOCan
      @DanOCan  22 дні тому

      Sounds great. Always up for finding more hidden gems.

  • @johngodbout7341
    @johngodbout7341 3 місяці тому +2

    I'd give Emily an 84 on her ride on the bucking frog! Lol

    • @DanOCan
      @DanOCan  3 місяці тому +2

      I think she’d be happy with that score.

  • @robatsea2009
    @robatsea2009 3 місяці тому +1

    Finished up at the Movie Mill - I love catching a film there whenever I'm in Lethbridge!

    • @DanOCan
      @DanOCan  3 місяці тому

      I saw one of the Avengers movies there.

  • @johngodbout7341
    @johngodbout7341 3 місяці тому +1

    Got to say that I love videos by crazy nutbars! 😂lol

    • @DanOCan
      @DanOCan  3 місяці тому +1

      Thanks. Our good friend Lila was the first to call us “crazy nutbars” and we kind of adopted it as a badge of honour.

  • @ianpaterson7225
    @ianpaterson7225 25 днів тому

    That is the only roads I drive, I discovered them in 2013 when I moved to Hussar after working in Gleichen.

    • @DanOCan
      @DanOCan  20 днів тому

      It’s the best way to travel. It’s like when we drive in the US, we always try to plan things so we have time to stay off the Interstates.

  • @garypoppel7117
    @garypoppel7117 3 місяці тому

    Love the videos . Get to see the small towns of Alberta ...

    • @DanOCan
      @DanOCan  3 місяці тому

      Thank you for watching.

  • @craiglowrey9550
    @craiglowrey9550 3 місяці тому

    You guys are having way, WAY too much fun... cute frog-ette.
    Great villages, I too like to explore those old unused roads, Dan. It's quite normal 😂...
    Cheers.

    • @DanOCan
      @DanOCan  3 місяці тому +1

      Thanks. It’s not easy to find a new way to get to Lethbridge but there always is another gravel road we haven’t been down.

    • @sardu55
      @sardu55 3 місяці тому +1

      Emily keeps that wild man Dan in line. She makes sure he shows up for work.

  • @sardu55
    @sardu55 3 місяці тому

    I keep waiting for Gordon Lightfoot to pop up and start singing 'That's What You Get (For Loving Me)'.

    • @DanOCan
      @DanOCan  3 місяці тому +1

      Yep. We often joke that we’re lucky we found each other because no one else would be able to put up with us.

  • @FotomanCalgary
    @FotomanCalgary 3 місяці тому

    The white "church" used to be Sunset Valley School. :)
    Sunset valley
    323!• SE 29-19-24-W4 • 25 ~lar 1915• llv 38 (38)

    • @DanOCan
      @DanOCan  3 місяці тому +1

      Cool. I’ll have to add that to my list of old schools.

  • @johngodbout7341
    @johngodbout7341 3 місяці тому

    You see, there are actually some positives to not having much hair! 😂

  • @johngodbout7341
    @johngodbout7341 3 місяці тому

    Arrowwood had a population of 189 in 2022, on the decline, as many small towns are.😢

    • @DanOCan
      @DanOCan  3 місяці тому +1

      So true. I find it interesting with the high price of homes in the city and so many people able to work from anywhere, I’d think we might start to see some population return to these small towns, but I guess not.

  • @ralger
    @ralger 3 місяці тому

    I’ve actually been in the Milo Hotel for a cold one and to the small Chinese restaurant for lunch is it gone ?

    • @DanOCan
      @DanOCan  3 місяці тому

      Not sure about the restaurant. It was a pretty quick drive through the town so we easily could have missed it.

    • @najrichardson3429
      @najrichardson3429 3 місяці тому +1

      Restaurant is still there it was newly renovated in 2019.

    • @DanOCan
      @DanOCan  3 місяці тому

      @@najrichardson3429 Good to know.

  • @Oilerator_
    @Oilerator_ 3 місяці тому

    I could be wrong but I think Parrish & Heimbecker actually still owns that one grain elevator that hasn't been repainted.
    Y'know, I wonder if anyone back in the day ever figured that the relatively minor Parrish & Heimbecker would outlast the giants like Alberta Wheat Pool, Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, Manitoba Pool Elevators and United Grain Growers. Probably would have been laughed out of the elevator back then at the suggestion.

    • @DanOCan
      @DanOCan  3 місяці тому

      You are so right about that. I worked for the AWP one summer thirty years ago and never would have believed they would disappear like they did.