The Lund Home

“Here on these prairie plains I stay, Wanting nevermore to stray, The winter days will come once more, And north winds whistle ’round the door. For always in my heart I sing The song of a wondrous prairie spring, And the melody to me so dear, Is only this – My home is here.” – […]

Big loss for Orion: Stevens Hardware destroyed in Christmas Day blaze

Sad news coming from Orion, Alberta this morning.  I have received word from a  few friends of Forgotten Alberta that the pioneer-era hardware store operated by prairie icon, Boyd Stevens, burned to the ground on Christmas Day. A video posted on Facebook by Logan Biesterfeldt shows the store already completely engulfed, as locals scramble to contain the […]

#FABTrip16: Chatting with an icon in Orion

A licensed establishment, Orion #Alberta #Canada #mybadlands #explorealberta #FABTrip16 @gregfarries A photo posted by Jonathan Koch (@forgotten_alberta) on Aug 7, 2016 at 10:16am PDT In what has become a #FABTrip tradition when travelling through the forgotten SE corner of Alberta, we stopped in the hamlet of Orion for a chat with Boyd Stevens: lifelong resident, proprietor of […]

Historic images of western Canadian towns can be found at Prairie-towns.com

(Hover over image to activate slideshow options – Slides courtesy of Glen Lundeen / prairie-towns.com) The launch of Prairie-towns.com signals yet another online endeavour to preserve the history and heritage of Western Canadian communities. Contained within the collection are over 2700 photos, many postcard images, from 400+ communities throughout Alberta and Saskatchewan. Amongst the total is […]