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Conglomerate boulder on hilltop
Just about anywhere you look in the valley bottom of the Crowsnest Pass you will find large errant boulders laying about. They have been left, for the most part, where they first landed but sometimes they get shoved off to the side or used for obstructions to keep red necks off of non-motorized trails. There is a remarkable collection of them scattered about in the bush around here, in some of the most unlikely places and they are often visible on the hillsides above the Crowsnest River.
I grew up playing on a huge displaced boulder that is definitely what one would call an erratic. It is a monstrous conglomerate chunk of rock from the Cadomin formation and it sits on top of the hill near my present home in Coleman. The reason I can say it is an erratic is because it doesn’t belong where it is. It is now confined to the Mountain View Industries compound, surrounded by a chain link fence.
Quarin/Bubniak family photo
Gushul 1956 wedding portrait with amethyst superimposed
I want to focus this week on a particular item I encountered in the 1956 edition of Vern Decoux’s Pass Bureau scrap books. One thing Vern was diligent about was detailed documentation of events like weddings, graduations and special events. He was a wonderful writer and insightful in his comments. My attention was drawn, in this particular volume, to a beautiful picture of a young couple who were married that year. That young couple was Gino and Rose Quarin and, as usual, the write-up, that accompanied the all important wedding portrait, went into detail about how the bride was dressed. These were pretty important events back then and the fact that journalists chose to diligently document the bride’s appearance in detail makes them a treasure. In this case I will share the exact wording of the description of Rose’s attire, so you can see what I mean.
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