This is the image I selected for the February page of my 2026 David Thompson Country Calendar. I think there are still a couple of copies of this calendar left at the Beehive Artisan Market in Nordegg.
I find this image fascinating, and will likely use it in my Apparitions project. This is the wall of one of the hoist houses at the Nordegg Historic Site. I was on one of my many private tours of the site when I captured this image. Except for the more modern graffiti at the bootom of the image, all of the other stuff dates back 70 years or more. There are notes about weather conditions on certain dates back in the 1950's. A one from the day that the mine closed for good in 1955.
I suspect that the coal company closed the mine due to low demand, with the expectation that things would improve at some point, and they would start up again. Well, that never happened, and everything remains in place as it was left back on that day.
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