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Publishing date: Mar 08, 2021 • March 8, 2021 • 6 minute read • • 77.801.014 – Although this photograph was not taken of stooks on the Ashworth’s Deadwood farm, but rather that of Bill Plaizier’s Judah Hill land in the 1940s. The stooks were indicative of the time. Joseph, Wilf and Harry Ashworth shared harvesting duties – Wilf in charge of the binder, while Harry and Joseph fashioned the stooks. Photo by SUPPLIED
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After spending time on the telegraph line – more recently on the telephone line, it is appropriate now to call on an individual and her family, who brought character and culture to Peace River. Before delving into the life of another cultural character, it is important to return for a moment to some interesting information regarding the telegraph – news from First World War front lines was at a premium, but Peace River telegraph operators provided a synopsis each night. A cow bell w
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Author of the article: Beth Wilkins
Publishing date: Mar 02, 2021 • March 2, 2021 • 6 minute read • • IMG 0001 – The sign depicts the NAR (Northern Alberta Railways), telegraphs and poles, which held lines by which telegraphs were transmitted; then once telephone lines were “flung” on them, they served both telegraph and telephone transmission. As we learned, although the Peace Country was far from more populated areas, it received these technologies in advance of the larger ones. It didn’t happen without a great deal of planning and effort by the companies involved and the crews working on the projects overcoming all manner of impediments – weather, equipment and terrain among them. Photo by SUPPLIED
Telephone lines continued to ring true to the plan of Alberta Government Telephones to extend its operations north to Dixonville in 1946 and Battle River…
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