From The Past – Page 2 – Northern Latitudes

Athabasca Falls

by adminFrom The Past, Hiking, Personal Views April 3, 2018June 21, 2021Comments are Disabled

There some places on this planet you visit once and thereafter you are always drawn back. For me, Jasper and in particular Athabasca Falls is one of those places. Of the many places I’ve been in the last few years – the falls always beckon when I’m anywhere close. The reasons? Mostly personal, a reminder …

Heading South

by adminFrom The Past, Personal Views March 20, 2018June 21, 2021Comments are Disabled

A Little Blue Church

by adminFrom The Past, History January 23, 2018June 21, 2021Comments are Disabled

Some day I’m going to take the time to do this local historic site the justice it deserves. On January 1, 1790, inhabitants of Augusta and Elizabethtown townships agreed to build a church here in the “burying yard” of the proposed town of “New Oswegatchie”. Subscriptions were inadequate and nothing was built by 1804 when …