Century Farm and a Fort

[RSL]

Our MLAs office hosted a banquet for the Century farms in the area in conjunction with the Vermilion Fair. We were invited as we are 1906, and on the 6th generation.
The Cake was 4' x 6'

Mom, Dad and Little Bro (he farms up north)

Good Cake

We went to Fort Edmonton the next day. It is an original Hudson Bay fur trading post. The trail that the Red River carts took from Fort Edmonton to Fort Battleford goes through the field south of our house...

York boat for moving furs under construction

Watchtower

Boss' House

Trade Goods

Homesteaders

Mess Hall

Parade Ground from the Boss Balcony

4:30pm

Steam train back to the park gate

And now we are cutting hay (made our first bales today)

For our starving cows

 

[leanin' H]

Congrats on the Century Ranching award! We recieved something like that during the state fair in 2000. In a era when ranching seems to be headed for extinction, it's great to see folks sticking with it! The fort is simply awesome. I love history. The fur trade was quite the adventure. Thank you for letting me gawk!

 

[Bootheel]

Looks like you been livin' it up and a good time had by all.

Glad to see you did find time to work a little though :lol:

Dad finally got around to applying for it this summer, ours was settled in the mid 1800's, my youngins' are the 7th generation here. History can be pretty cool, looks like you got lots of it your way.

 

[PureCountry]

Great pics Sean, thanks for sharing. That is an amazing place at the ol' fort.

 

[hillsdown]

Thanks for sharing the pics, I haven`t been to to that fort since grade school. Brings back a lot of memories.

 

[RSL]

The advantage of having grandparents from away is that you actually take the time to visit some of the relatively local and neat stuff that you would never do without an outside perspective...