Jeanine Dalton is looking to climb three mountain peaks in one day. It s a challenging task at over 22 kilometres with an elevation of 2920 metres, but in Dalton s view, that s nothing compared to what her friends the Lamprecht family face every day at their home west of Edmonton in Evansburg.
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By Hamish MacPherson
BACK IN THE DAY
1746, Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie, The Young Pretender) (1720 - 1788) being sheltered, after his defeat at Culloden, by highlanders who are on their knees before him. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). THERE were 269 years and five months between the two greatest chances to break the Union. Had Prince Charles Edward Stuart and the Jacobites won the Battle of Culloden, then he might have listened to those many advisers who had urged him to stay in Edinburgh the previous year and proclaim the end of the Union. The Duke of Cumberland (below) and the Hanoverian government army won the day, however, and the Union survived, strengthened by the many Scots who sided with the government and set the scene for the establishment and growth of the British Empire, in which many Scots played a huge part. The next opportunity to end the Union was on September 18, 2014.
CANMORE, ALTA. Ryan Cain and his fiancé Sarah Whitelaw have stayed at Lady Macdonald Country Inn, in Canmore multiple times. “We found Lady Macdonald and it was an absolutely beautiful spot,” said Cain. The couple who now lives in Kimberley, originally booked all 13 rooms for their wedding accommodations for May 2020 and put down a $1,000 deposit. “With Ryan and I both working food and beverage there’s no expectation that we would get the thousand dollars back,” said Whitelaw, if they were to cancel. But they also made another $3,000 payment. “We paid money in instalments because we’re used to people in this industry having to chase down payments for functions and stuff, and then we were made to feel like it was our fault they don’t have the money to give back,” said Cain.
Photo: Taken in 1887 Lady Agnes Macdonald is on the right. Here are more details to last week’s story of Prime Minister J.A. Macdonald and Lady Agnes Macdonald’s trip on the Canadian Pacific Intercontinental Railway to the British Columbia coast. At one stop at Lake Louise, Lady Macdonald was studying the broad front of the locomotive with the cow-catcher and decided that it would be exciting to ride from that vantage point of the locomotive while going through the Kicking Horse Pass. The Prime Minister was not keen on the idea, but the railway superintendent thought it best she be accompanied and so he rode with her after arranging secure seating for both of them. She was fascinated by the journey, and later the Prime Minister accompanied her on the cowcatcher, although he said he preferred the comfort of the observation car. Lady Agnes Macdonald wrote of her experiences on the railway trip through the Rockies in an article entitled, “By Car and Cow Catcher” in Murray’s