Just living life here in the Promised Land, Southern Alberta. Where the Mountains meet the prairie in a stunning sunset, surrounded in fields of gold
An old picture, surfing the S Bend on the Red Deer River with Denali keeping a watchful eye. It was a perfect day, surrounded by perfect friends.
A summer hike with the family and Grandparents. It was a typical Waterton day with some wind and sun. Logan hiked the whole way in to Bertha Falls
The first two loves of my life together in one picture. I remember when they came into my life, making me whole.
I think this is my favourite picture from last year. We did a sea kayaking trip to the Broken Group and had 4 glorious days of sun. It was a capped off with the company of great friends.
I just drove by and it really is quite a site to see.
As for my recollections of the fire story - here is the update from my dad and mom. It also fits better with my recollection of my Grandmother and Grandfather's first hand account.
There was a smaller hotel located where the Kilmorey now was. In 1933 during the depression in burnt down under suspicious circumstances. There was a trail in the snow leading to a house and some rather obvious signs of arson. The storm had stopped and the tracks were hard to conceal. An insurance inspector came and the word was he was going to report arson. On his way back to his home office (quite some distance away) his car had a suspicious crash. The local rumor mill had it his brakes had been tampered with.
The old Kilmorey was built up after this."
"The Kilmorey Lodge, one of Alberta's most historic buildings and an icon of Waterton Lakes National Park, was destroyed this morning by a fire.
Four guests - a couple from Montana and a couple from Calgary, staying in separate rooms - were evacuated safely by the lodge's night auditor, who discovered the fire on the main floor at 3:45 a.m., said owner Locklynn Craig.
"It's a beautiful building. I could not believe it. I am stunned," Craig told the Herald.
The nearly 90-year-old log structure, which pre-dates Waterton's historic Prince of Wales Hotel, was "engulfed and burning to the ground within one hour," he said.
The cause of the fire is not known.
One of the original buildings in Waterton, the lodge was granted a lease within the park in 1911. Within 10 years, it had established itself as an eight-room boarding house on Emerald Bay with a reputation for fine food.
Tuesday’s fire is not the first the hotel has suffered: it burned down in 1933 but was rebuilt. It was also expanded in 1934."
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