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Ord flicked through the album. All the scenes, set against the reconstructed buildings, featured burghers, or servants or fishwives posed around the set.
‘Of course,’ eventually added Ord, ‘there is a link to the case. I believe it has been suggested that all of the victims were employed at the exhibition as models, and that Johnny Monkey may have worked on the construction of it. He may have met them there.’
‘So, in fact,’ added Hamish, ‘the faces of some of the fishwives we see posing here could be those of the victims themselves!’
The Foot of the Walk Murders
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To call the house at 494 College Ave. anything other than a castle would seem wrong, so we’ll call it the Castle. It’s three storeys tall but seems taller, 115 years old but seems older, and it is right smack in the middle of a neighbourhood, right in the middle of a city, where its turreted existence inspires confusion, bewilderment and a touch of awe. It’s a place both out of time and out of place, but somehow, it feels like it’s exactly where it belongs.
To call the house at 494 College Ave. anything other than a castle would seem wrong, so we’ll call it the Castle. It’s three storeys tall but seems taller, 115 years old but seems older, and it is right smack in the middle of a neighbourhood, right in the middle of a city, where its turreted existence inspires confusion, bewilderment and a touch of awe. It’s a place both out of time and out of place, but somehow, it feels like it’s exactly where it belongs.
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Colin Lawson Sr. founded Lawson Projects in 1976, and 45 years later the Calgary company is still thriving despite current problems caused by the pandemic in the development/construction industry. In fact, the firm remains fully operational today, its staff handling jobs remotely from on site, in clients’ offices or from their home offices.
Lawson sold his interest in the firm to his senior project managers, Lorne Larrivee and Ian McMurray, in 2000, and when both retired in 2016, the current ownership of president and managing director Norm Landry, Dave Bartle, Bruce Yorga and Jason Ragan took over.
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A year-long examination of Main Street homelessness I am writing this to my brothers and sisters, the mamas and the babies that are starting to die at alarming rates. Something needs to change. Teach these babies to share and to love first because this world never loved us, we ‘other’ people.
‐ Desirae
The only hint of yuletide colours is the red-and-white Canadian flag fluttering atop the old firefighter museum just off the Main Street strip.
Otherwise, this morning Christmas morning is quiet, indistinguishable from the previous day and the one that follows.
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